Wölfl Piano Concertos 2 & 3

[Alan Howe]

...plus his Concerto da Camera in E flat WoO 97 for Piano, Flute and Orchestra:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/joseph-woelfl-klavierkonzerte-nr-2-4/hnum/6142535

[4candles]

Very welcome indeed! It will make a timely accompaniment to the forthcoming Vol.2 of his piano works at Toccata Classics.

[eschiss1]

I've been interested in his music since college at least, and the increasing number of his recorded works is gratifying. Thanks.

[Gareth Vaughan]

One thing intrigues me somewhat. This recording has PCs 2 & 3. The earlier CPO disk featured 1, 5 & 6 plus the slow movement of no. 4. Are we to assume the other movements of 4 are lost? I don't think so, because I am almost certain I saw a complete score in the BL years ago, and that was not merely one movement. Why record only one movement if the whole concerto is extant?

[Gareth Vaughan]

I have answered my own question. It seems Wolfl composed the Andante known as The Calm as a replacement  movement for his 1st concerto while not discarding the original slow movement of no. 1, so the so-called 4th concerto consists of the 1st and 3rd movements of no. 1 with The Calm as a new 2nd movement.  Dear me!

[Alan Howe]

PC2 is 'Mozart plus'. Very nice indeed, but not quite Beethoven, if you see what I mean.

[Alan Howe]

PC3 isn't very interesting at all, with a particularly trite and repetitive finale which drove me mad. Much note-spinning, even within its 21:36 span!

[terry martyn]

My belatedly purchased copies of the Eberl piano concertos arrived on the same day as the Wolfl.  I am struck at how advanced ,and on the cusp of Romanticism, the op.32 Concerto of Eberl sounds to my ears, in contrast to those of Wolfl.

[eschiss1]

I'd forgotten cpo's other disc with 1,5&6, which I have at least partial streaming access to- will go hear. Thanks.