Gradener - Orchestral Music Vol.1: Violin Concertos 1 & 2 | Toccata Classics TOCC0528

Gradener - Orchestral Music Vol.1: Violin Concertos 1 & 2

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0528

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 1st November 2019

Contents

Artists

Karen Bentley Pollick (violin)
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine

Conductor

Gottfried Rabl

Works

Gradener, Hermann

Violin Concerto no.1 in D major, op.22
Violin Concerto no.2 in D major, op.41

Artists

Karen Bentley Pollick (violin)
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine

Conductor

Gottfried Rabl

About

The German-born, Vienna-based Hermann Grädener (1844–1929) is yet another composer whose music, esteemed in its own time, has since slipped between the floorboards of history. Yet this first recording of his two violin concertos – substantial works both, downstream from Brahms, and with a hint of Sibelius – prove him to have been one of the more important Romantics, with a strong sense of drama, a sure hand for musical architecture and a natural flair for extended melody. The conductor of this recording, Gottfried Rabl, discovered Grädener’s scores in the second-hand section of a Viennese music-shop many years ago and now, joined by the American violinist Karen Bentley Pollick, they are releasing this first album in a series intended to put Grädener’s music before the modern public for the first time.

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