Composer: Robert Fürstenthal
Performer: The Rossetti Ensemble
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0519
Release: 2019
Size: 1.21 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Sonata for Two Oboes and Piano in D minor, Op. 56
01. I. Allegro moderato
02. II. Lento
03. III. Scherzando
04. IV. Intermezzo. Cantabile
05. V. Rondo. Allegretto
Cello Sonata in F minor, Op. 58
06. I. Allegro moderato
07. II. Andante
08. III. Scherzando
09. IV. Grave
Viola Sonata in D minor, Op. 57
10. I. Lento – Allegretto
11. II. Scherzando
12. III. Lento
13. IV. Vivace
Violin Sonata in B minor, Op. 43
14. I. Allegro con fuoco
15. II. Lento
16. III. Scherzando
17. IV. Andante con variazioni
Piano Trio, Op. 65
18. I. Moderato, ma con spirito
19. II. Cantabile
20. III. Andante – Allegro ma non troppo
When Germany invaded Austria in 1938, Robert Fürstenthal, born in 1920, took the path of many Viennese Jews and fled to the United States, where he made his living as an accountant; the fact that he had written music in his youth was soon forgotten. Reconnection, after 35 years, with the woman who had been his first love rekindled both that flame and his urge to compose, and from then on songs and chamber music flowed from his pen, preserving the spirit of fin-de-siècle Vienna under the Californian sun – ‘When I compose, I am back in Vienna’, he explained. He died in November 2016, aged 96, knowing that his lyrical, eloquent music was at last attracting the attention of both musicians and microphones.