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While Otto Klemperer’s formidable conductorial talent is indisputable, his compositional gifts were marginal at best. The works on this new CPO disc are all highly
Robert Fuchs (1846-1927) enjoyed the mentorship of his older colleague Brahms, whose two piano concertos intermingle throughout Fuchs’ own three-movement work in that genre. While
Ernst Toch’s string quartets reveal an original voice and a distinct musical personality; his symphonies do likewise. Symphony No. 1 is a fascinating and stimulating
Ernst Toch’s Second and Third Symphonies explore his chromatic, gnarly, mature idiom, which nonetheless manages to maintain clear melodic definition and fairly secure tonal moorings.
This 5-disc box collects for the first time CPO’s Cannes Classical Award-winning series of Milhaud’s complete symphonies featuring the Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Humphrey Searle (1915-1982) took a different path from contemporaries like Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, and William Walton in pursuing 12-tone composition as his model.
Humphrey Searle’s name will be known to music lovers, to the extent he’s familiar at all, as one of the contributors to those legendary Hoffnung
