Composer: Robert Fürstenthal
Performer: The Rossetti Ensemble
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0577
Release: 2020
Size: 1.24 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Horn Sonata in D Minor, Op. 54
01. I. Andante
02. II. Scherzo. Allegretto
03. III. Adagio
04. IV. Grave – Allegro con brio
Cello Sonata in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 44
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Scherzando
07. III. Cantabile
08. IV. Agitato
Oboe Sonata in E-Flat Minor, Op. 50
09. I. Ruhig
10. II. Lebhaft
11. III. Sehr innig
12. IV. Bewegt
Viola Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 60a
13. I. Andante
14. II. Lento – Allegro moderato
String Quartet in B Minor, Op. 40
15. I. Allegro
16. II. Scherzando
17. III. Lento
18. IV. Andante
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.