Anyone approaching this album with an appreciation of Felix Weingartner's place in music history will be curious to hear it, either for the famed conductor's own Violin Concerto in G major, or for his idiomatic arrangement of Franz Schubert's sketches for the Symphony in E major, D. 729. Both works should stimulate interest, because the concerto is a solid half hour of lush and virtuosic post-Romantic music that wowed its audience at Fritz Kreisler's dazzling premiere of it in 1912, and the symphony is one of those rare and ...
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Anyone approaching this album with an appreciation of Felix Weingartner's place in music history will be curious to hear it, either for the famed conductor's own Violin Concerto in G major, or for his idiomatic arrangement of Franz Schubert's sketches for the Symphony in E major, D. 729. Both works should stimulate interest, because the concerto is a solid half hour of lush and virtuosic post-Romantic music that wowed its audience at Fritz Kreisler's dazzling premiere of it in 1912, and the symphony is one of those rare and competent completions that Schubert lovers crave. Weingartner's style was derived from mid-19th century German Romanticism, and while much of his rich orchestral colors and extravagant swells of sonority are reminiscent of Richard Strauss, the dominant influence in the concerto is clearly Johannes Brahms. This may not be readily apparent in the flashiest passages, which are brilliantly executed here by violinist Laurent Albrecht Breuninger, but the melodic flow, counterpoint, and...
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