With the previous RCA Red Seal release On the Threshold of Hope, the Canadian ARC Ensemble attempted to raise the profile of a composer already reasonably well recorded, but not necessarily well-known composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg. In Right Through the Bone, ARC Ensemble takes a look at Dutch composer Julius Röntgen who, in addition to creating 650 works in a career spanning from toward the end of the Romantic period to past the first phase of the modern, also happens to be distantly related to Nobel Laureate Wilhelm Conrad ...
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With the previous RCA Red Seal release On the Threshold of Hope, the Canadian ARC Ensemble attempted to raise the profile of a composer already reasonably well recorded, but not necessarily well-known composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg. In Right Through the Bone, ARC Ensemble takes a look at Dutch composer Julius Röntgen who, in addition to creating 650 works in a career spanning from toward the end of the Romantic period to past the first phase of the modern, also happens to be distantly related to Nobel Laureate Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, the discoverer of X rays. As with Weinberg, Röntgen is no stranger to recording, although heretofore most of his work has only appeared on minor, and mainly Dutch, labels. To its credit, for Right Through the Bone ARC Ensemble selected three major chamber works -- all late-period Röntgen -- that had not been recorded, and the Viola Sonata in C minor has only appeared on disc once before. Within in his own time, or rather in the last two decades of it, Röntgen was widely...
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