Conductor Howard Griffiths seems to be very excited leading the NDR Philharmonie in the photograph reproduced on the back of the booklet of this CPO release and perhaps he should be: this disc contains two premieres in a program of music by Johann Wilhelm Wilms. If that name doesn't make you jump from your seat, bear in mind that Wilms was the top Dutch composer of orchestral music in his day, although he picked a rather unfortunate era in which to thrive, that of the early romantic, alongside Ludwig van Beethoven. Moreover ...
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Conductor Howard Griffiths seems to be very excited leading the NDR Philharmonie in the photograph reproduced on the back of the booklet of this CPO release and perhaps he should be: this disc contains two premieres in a program of music by Johann Wilhelm Wilms. If that name doesn't make you jump from your seat, bear in mind that Wilms was the top Dutch composer of orchestral music in his day, although he picked a rather unfortunate era in which to thrive, that of the early romantic, alongside Ludwig van Beethoven. Moreover, Wilms' music -- as noticed by contemporary reviews in the Allgemeine Musicalische Zeitung for which Wilms himself briefly served as the Amsterdam-based correspondent -- is clearly influenced by the example of Beethoven from practically its first note. But Wilms was by no means a Beethoven imitator, but someone who carved out a strongly individual style of his own within the parameters of Beethoven's innovative sound, and by 1820, Wilms was the most frequently heard orchestral...
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