Composer: Andreas Romberg
Performer: Chouchane Siranossian
Orchestra: Capriccio Barockorchester
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Release: 2021
Size: 1.32 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Violin Concerto No. 4 in C Major
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Rondo. Allegretto
Violin Concerto No. 12 in G Minor
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Adagio Cantabile
06. III. Polonese. Allegretto
Violin Concerto No. 9 in A Major
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Adagio
09. III. Rondo. Allegretto
Born in Lower Saxony just three years before Beethoven, the violinist Andreas Romberg (1767-1821) was, like him, a virtuoso instrumentalist of precocious gifts. His career too was radically affected by the Napoleonic Wars and a formative encounter with Haydn. And, as with Beethoven, his most popular work was a choral setting of a poem by Schiller: Das Lied von der Glocke, premiered in 1809. Romberg wrote an enormous number of violin concertos, but only sixteen manuscript scores of his entire oeuvre have survived, all of them in Hamburg. Chouchane Siranossian has decided to revive and make the world premiere recording of three concertos, thus revealing an interesting composer and a trio of highly virtuosic works.