Composer: Johann Evangelist Brandl
Performer: David Castro-Balbi, Alexandre Castro-Balbi
Orchestra: Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
Conductor: Kevin Griffiths
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 555227-2
Release: 2020
Size: 1.26 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphonie Concertante, Op. 20
01. I. Adagio – Allegro
02. II. Andante quasi un poco allegretto
03. III. Polonaise
Nanthild das Mädchen aus Valbella, Op. 50
04. Overture
Symphony, Op. 25 in D major
05. I. Allegro con spirito
06. II. Andante
07. III. Menuetto. Allegretto – Trio
08. IV. Presto
“Akin to Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, Brandl’s Symphonie Concertante, as a work with two solo instruments, expands the dimensions of the first movement solo concerto. In this way, Brandl gives both soloists space and time to present and then virtuosically elaborate upon all the themes and motifs in succession, which our two soloists, the Castro-Balbi brothers, display sensationally. Brandl had composed his four-movement Symphony in D major with a dazzling finale as a ‘Grande Simphonie à grand Orchestre’ some ten years earlier. Already then, Brandl anticipated Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony op. 60, completed in 1806. The quest for new sound worlds that the Rhinelander Beethoven envisioned is also evident in Brandl, who was ten years his senior. Today musicologists are
discovering Brandl as,an artist whose mature musical language surmounted the style of Classicism and instead favoured a sharpened chromaticism, exhibiting Early Romantic characteristics.”
