Composer: Wilhelm Goldner
Performer: Brad Beckmann, Carolyn True
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0527
Release: 2020
Size: 780 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Suite moderne No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 40
01. I. Allegro vivace
02. II. Andante
03. III. Finale. Allegro vivace
Suite moderne No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 41
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Scherzo. Presto
06. III. Andante
07. IV. Allegro vivace
Suite moderne No. 6 in G Major, Op. 49
08. I. Introduction. Allegro moderato
09. II. Romance. Andantino
10. III. Gavotte. Allegro moderato
11. IV. Finale. Allegro risoluto
Wilhelm Goldner (1839–1907) was one of the many composer-pianists who populated European musical life in the nineteenth century. Born in Hamburg, six years after Brahms, he trained in Leipzig and made his name and his living in Paris, where his attractive and easy-going music became a favourite of the salons. His first Suite moderne for piano duet, written in 1875, proved so popular that his publisher asked for more, and over the next twelve years Goldner composed five further Suites modernes. Although all six were reprinted in 1904 (by Universal in Vienna, no less), they have long since slipped from sight, and these first recordings restore their charms to modern audiences.