Composer: Robert Fürstenthal
Performer: The Rossetti Ensemble
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0542
Release: 2020
Size: 1.12 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Notturno in D-Flat Major, Op. 51
Flute Sonata in G Minor, Op. 47
02. I. Allegro con spirito
03. II. Intermezzo. Comodo
04. III. Lento
05. IV. Allegretto un poco marcato
Violin Sonata in G Minor, Op. 46
06. I. Lento – Allegro moderato
07. II. Scherzando
08. III. Adagio
09. IV. Lento – Allegro assai
Oboe Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 63
10. I. Allegro con brio
11. II. Lento
12. III. Scherzando
13. IV. Grave – Allegro moderato
Sonata in B Minor, Op. 60a (Version for Viola & Piano)
14. I. Allegro con brio
15. II. Adagio misterioso
16. III. Scherzando – Dolce
17. IV. Grave
18. Notturno in D Major, Op. 19
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.