Wolfgang Brunner, pianist and director of the Salzburger Hofmusik, put together this Friends of Schubert collection of music by a circle of composers from the Carthinia province of Austria who actively promoted the greatness of Schubert's music after his death. He chose a variety of historic instruments and a variety of recording venues (maybe unavoidably as these were recorded over an eight-year period), which makes for some intonation problems and an overall uneven sound quality for the album. Nevertheless, it's a decent ...
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Wolfgang Brunner, pianist and director of the Salzburger Hofmusik, put together this Friends of Schubert collection of music by a circle of composers from the Carthinia province of Austria who actively promoted the greatness of Schubert's music after his death. He chose a variety of historic instruments and a variety of recording venues (maybe unavoidably as these were recorded over an eight-year period), which makes for some intonation problems and an overall uneven sound quality for the album. Nevertheless, it's a decent sampling of music that would probably never be heard otherwise outside of its homeland.Albert Tonitz is best represented, with works ranging from chamber to vocal music. His La Romanesca for cello and piano is not a very inventive realization of a dance by sixteenth century composer Claude Gervais, but Brunner and Peter Sigl play it on well-matched instruments, going from delicate elegance to ferocious tenacity. Similarly, Consolation, a song without words for flute, has an almost...
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