Gernsheim cello and piano concertos

[Alan Howe]

Coming back to this recording after a few weeks, it seems to me that what the Triendl/Bäumer partnership has done is to position Gernsheim's PC half-way between Schumann and Brahms. A very clever move, in my view, and one which vindicates the work as the masterpiece of his early maturity. In other words, it's more than Schumann, but not quite Brahms.