Composer: Emilie Mayer
Performer: Tobias Koch
Orchestra: Kölner Akademie
Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 555554-2
Release: 2023
Size: 720 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Overture in D minor
02. Overture No. 3 in C Major
03. Overture No. 2 in D Major
04. Faust Overture op. 46 in B Minor
Piano Concerto in B flat major
05. Without movement title
06. Un Poco Adagio
07. Allegro
In our successful and extensive Emilie Mayer Edition, we now present overtures and a piano concerto by Europe’s greatest composer, who occupies a singular position in the musical world of her time, and indeed, no other composer of her generation allowed herself to be so little impressed by patriarchal gender conceit and rigid role attributions as she! Her Faust Overture was very popular at the time; there is evidence of several performances in the early 1880s. Although it is in sonata form, it is overlaid with unusual dramaturgical aspects related to the subject. Her Piano Concerto in B flat major (as far as is known, Emilie Mayer’s only concertante composition) is a prime example of an individually handled classical approach.