Carl LOEWE: Piano Music, Volume Two
Known in his lifetime as ‘the north German Schubert’, Carl Loewe (1796–1869) is remembered today chiefly as a composer of ballads. Yet there is a considerable body of piano music that is strikingly innovative in content, expression and harmony, containing the germs of ideas later taken up by composers such as Wagner and Liszt. Loewe was unquestionably a brilliantly original talent, a major figure in ushering in the Romantic era.
Linda Nicholson, piano Erard, Paris, c. 1839
Listen To This Recording:
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Spring. A Tone Poem in Sonata Form, Op. 47 (1824)
- I Der erwachende Morgen (L’aube du jour). Introduzione. Ben sostenuto in tempo di larghetto; Morgenfeier
- II Naturleben (Grand jour): Allegretto con commodezza
- III Gang zu ländlichen Gruppen (Vie champêtre): Scherzo. Presto, Andantino
- IV Tagesneigen (Le crépuscule), Allegro assai
- I Bethesda (St John, ch. 5, vv. 29), Grave, non troppo sostenuto Allegro assai Tempo primo
- II Gang nach Emmahus (St Luke, ch. 24, vv. 2829), Adagio
- III Martha und Maria (St Luke, ch. 10, vv. 3842), Allegro innocentemente, sempre piacevole Recit. Grave maestoso Adagio
- I Allegro
- II Andantino Allegro agitato Adagio non troppo lento
- III Scherzo. Allegro
- IV Allegro grazioso
- Andante Allegro assai Meno allegro, quasi alla Polacca Allegro molto e con brio
Biblical Pictures, Op. 96 (1844)
Grande Sonate Brillante in E flat major, Op. 41 (1819)
Evening Fantasy, Op. 11 (1817)*
* FIRST RECORDING
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