Gernsheim cello and piano concertos

[Alan Howe]

When you wrote that Triendl surpasses himself, I'm guessing you literally meant that, of course..

I'm assuming that is friendly sarcasm  .
So, was it Triendl or Bäumer who was responsible for the more expansive performance on cpo? Answer: we don't really know. Perhaps it was a joint decision. All I know is that it works in the PC - magnificently. And the fact that everything on the new CD is slower than other recorded performances of the same pieces leads me to suspect that the instigator was in fact the conductor.

[eschiss1]

No, no, it was an honest question, when I noticed that the two recordings of the piano concerto both had Triendl... so if he was better in the more recent one, he was surpassing himself... probably together with the conductor and orchestra, imho (some pianists learn their concertos without collaborating with the orchestra, at least one once told me (can't remember who or when now), but I have always found that difficult to believe)

[Alan Howe]

All I can add is that this new performance of the PC has the potential to put Gernsheim more fully in the public eye.  It's that good.

[eschiss1]

Kudos to cpo and all involved, then!

[terry martyn]

This weighty and thoughtful piano concerto is a masterpiece,in my opinion. Does anyone else agree?

[Alan Howe]

Absolutely. 100%.

[Ilja]

Apologies for being a contrarian voice here, but I don't think this is prime Gernsheim. It is an excellent concerto containing beautiful music, don't get me wrong, but it also lacks the sophistication we see in his later works, particularly the last two symphonies, Zu einem Drama, and the B minor piano quartet. I mean this in terms of both instrumentation as composition. In a sense, I think the work is just a bit too formally unexceptional to lay claim to a term as lofty as "masterpiece".

[Alan Howe]

It's fine to disagree, of course. I'd simply say that the PC is the masterpiece of Gernsheim's early maturity.