Composer: Ferdinand Ries
Performer: Christopher Hinterhuber
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Uwe Grodd
Audio CD
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: APE (image+cue)
Label: Naxos
Size: 256 MB
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Piano Concerto No. 7, Op. 132, “Farewell to London”
01. I. Grave – Allegro con moto
02. II. Larghetto
03. III. Allegro
04. Grand Variations on Rule Britannia, Op. 116
05. Introduction and Variations Brillantes, Op. 170
A Composer who deserves his music to be more widely heard
I first heard the Variations on the song “Rule Britannia” on my car radio and was so impressed that I simply had to add it to my music library. It comes with the Piano Concerto N° 7, Op.132 “Farewell to England” and forms a really beautiful introduction – for me – to the music of Ferdinand Ries who was a pupil, secretary, copyist and eventually a life long friend of Beethoven.
Ries’ music is somewhere between the late Classic and early Romantic eras, and while reminiscent of Beethoven seems not to possess the “darkness” of Beethoven’s later years.
Ries spent some eleven years in England and wrote the N°. 7 concerto prior to retiring to Germany with his English wife.
This is also my first recording of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestra and Christopher Hinterluber, Piano and I can thoroughly recommend this to you.
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