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Spohr’s symphonic music (and much else) is earnest to the point of caricature. The Seventh Symphony is subtitled “The Earthly and Divine in Human Life,”
You have to give Howard Griffiths and his fine orchestra
Those who’ve followed Marco Polo’s Louis Spohr string quartet cycle from its inception will know what to expect from this final installment. Both the A
CPO put these concertos in a big box containing all
Spohr subtitled his Fourth Symphony “The Consecration of Tone: Characteristic Tone Painting in Symphonic Form”, and prefaced it with a long-winded poem of the same
You can’t fault Howard Shelley and his orchestra or suggest that they are not trying. In fact, they play well. The problem lies with the
This disc has a lot going for it. Jon Manasse is a superb clarinetist, with a perfectly even tone in all registers, a silky legato,
What can you say about a composer whose music is so rhythmically flabby and lacking in contrast that everything basically sounds like everything else? It’s
This disc offers an inspired choice of repertoire, with performances to match. Paganini and Spohr were the two most famous violin soloists of their day,
Spohr’s four clarinet concertos deserve exposure far beyond the small coterie of woodwind aficionados. They are truly lovely works, formally interesting (check out the poetic,
