Composer: Carl Loewe
Performer: Linda Nicholson
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC0690
Release: 2023
Size: 626 MB
Recovery: +3%
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Vier Phantasien, Op. 137
01. I. Der Abschied des Auswanderers vom Vaterland: Adagio – Allegro assai, con fuoco
02. II. Meerfahrt des Auswanderers: Come recitativo – Allegro molto
03. III. Die Prairie: Molto moderato, grazioso quasi Adagio
04. IV. Die neue Heimat des Auswanderers: Larghetto affettuoso
05. Der barmherzige Bruder, Op. 28 – Eine Tondichtung für das Pianoforte: Andante con moto
Grande Sonate Élégique, Op. 32
06. I. Grave con moto – Allegro
07. II. Andante
08. III. Presto
09. IV. Finale: Presto con fuoco – Allegro
Three Lieder transcribed for piano solo by Linda Nicholson
10. Sehnsucht, Op. 9, Heft III, No. 5
11. Die schlanke Wasserlilie
12. Stille Liebe
Known in his lifetime as ‘the north German Schubert’, Carl Loewe (1796–1869) is remembered today chiefly as a composer of songs and ballads. Yet there is a considerable body of piano music that is strikingly innovative in content, expression and harmony, containing the germs of ideas later taken up by composers such as Wagner and Liszt. Loewe was unquestionably a brilliantly original talent, a major figure in ushering in the Romantic era – with the remarkable Four Fantasies of 1854 heard here ‘documenting’ in music the contemporary emigration of German families to the United States. This third volume of Linda Nicholson’s survey of his piano music on historical instruments concludes its first-ever complete recording on any kind of piano.