Unsung Composers

The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Wednesday 12 March 2025, 23:25

Title: Röntgen Piano music vol.6
Post by: Alan Howe on Wednesday 12 March 2025, 23:25
Try track 6 - the early Piano Sonata in C minor, in one movement (1877):
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9750224--rontgen-piano-music-vol-6
Title: Re: Röntgen Piano music vol.6
Post by: Jonathan on Thursday 13 March 2025, 08:17
It's a superb disc!
Title: Re: Röntgen Piano music vol.6
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 13 March 2025, 10:11
I'm not sure that Röntgen was a great composer, but he was certainly a supreme craftsman. Is that fair?
Title: Re: Röntgen Piano music vol.6
Post by: eschiss1 on Thursday 13 March 2025, 19:05
There aren't that many "great" composers around anyway, and I'd maintain that Röntgen could also occasionally surprise (in the best way, I mean), so/and yes, fair ;)

Concertzender - don't know if they still archive old programs - had something like 20 hours of broadcasts, a version of the Composer of the Week idea but bigger but with much fewer in-studio recording,  in those archives one could find by search many  older CD recordings of his music, which made for a very good introduction, imho.