Gernsheim cello and piano concertos

[edurban]

I just listened to the sound samples of the piano quintets on Toccata's website, and Holy Cow!  Fantastic pieces, surging Romanticism at its finest.  I have to go order them now...

David

[Alan Howe]

They are indeed great works. Every bit as good as anything by Brahms.

[chill319]

The score to Gernsheim's Symphony 4 has recently become available on IMSLP:

http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.4,_Op.62_%28Gernsheim,_Friedrich%29

[Peter1953]

What an amazing trio of truly grandiose concertos:  Bortkiewicz's wonderful violin concerto as a starter, Gernsheim's gorgeous piano concerto as the main course, and Cliffe's astonishing violin concerto as the best possible dessert.
Last evening I had an almost an esoteric listening experience of one and an half hour.

A set of three, still unrecorded... Suppose some executive producers are spotting our Forum, reading our enthusiastic posts, thinking what a challange the recording of these winning masterpieces would be, finding and motivating the best possible orchestra's and soloists, seeing the commercial advantages, and afterwards reading our posts, praising their labels and new releases...

Let's cross our fingers...

[eschiss1]

Is the radio recording of the Gernsheim concerto the February 2008 (editing in, sorry) recording made by Oliver Triendl? Of curiosity...
Eric

[Alan Howe]

Yes, Eric, it is!

[eschiss1]

On cpo forthcoming.

http://hermannbaeumer.com/en/node/18235

with the overture Zu einem Drama. Taped mid-2017.

The cellist is the same fellow who recorded it on a SWR radio broadcast years ago (Hülshoff).

[Mark Thomas]

Thanks, Eric, this news is really how to start the day! Of course, one has to remember the length of cpo's pipeline....

[Alan Howe]

That's a truly heroic spot, Eric! Thank you!

[Ilja]

To be honest, I'm most thrilled to hear a new rendition of Zu einem Drama, something of an anomaly in Gernsheim's work which I love dearly.

[Revilod]

Great news. I' m very fond of Gernsheim's PC...surely the best of his concertos. I hope to live long enough to own the disc. In the meantime, there is always Triendl's YouTube recording, of course.

[gnicholls]

Yes, Zu einem Drama is a superb, compact, late Gernsheim concert overture that I like even more than his symphonies. Looking forward to this disc of his concertos.

[semloh]

The cello concerto is already available on Hyperion, of course, but it will be such a relief to have the piano concerto on a quality CD rather than YT.

[pianoconcerto]

I was surprised to see the cpo recording of the Gernsheim pc (Oliver Triendl/Philharmonisches Staatsorcherster Mainz/Hermann Bäumer) posted on youtube.  I guess it has been or will be released. Also included is the Cello Concerto and Zu einem Drama.

[Alan Howe]

Great news!
Here are the contents of the CD on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT4yZFXE5OA&list=OLAK5uy_nmA34qkFU7cBnlIptIH7i701NEKme1vRg

It'll probably be announced for sale at jpc within a week or two.

Can't understand why the PC isn't in the standard repertoire...