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Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst - Complete Music Vol.3 | Toccata Classics TOCC0163

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst - Complete Music Vol.3

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0163

Barcode: 5060113441638

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 3rd December 2012

Contents

Artists

Sherban Lupu (violin)
Ian Hobson (piano)
Charles Schunke
Stephen Heller
George Osborne

Works

Ernst, Heinrich Wilhelm

Airs hongrois varies, op.22
Elegie, op.10 'Elegie sur la mort d'un objet cheri' (arr. for violin and piano)
Introduction, variations and final on a Strauss waltz, op.26
Introduction et variations brillantes, op.6 (Halevy)
Pensees fugitives (12)
» no.7 Reverie
» no.8 Un Caprice
» no.9 Juquietude
» no.10 Priere Pendant l'orge
» no.11 Intermezzo
» no.12 Theme Original - Variation
Souvenirs de l'opera 'La Juive'

Artists

Sherban Lupu (violin)
Ian Hobson (piano)
Charles Schunke
Stephen Heller
George Osborne

About

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812–65) was one of the leading musicians of his day, a friend of Berlioz, Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn, and for Joseph Joachim ‘the greatest violinist I ever heard’.

But the popular encore pieces by which Ernst is remembered today represent only a fraction of his output: this third CD – in a series of seven presenting all his compositions for the first time – shows the full range of his creativity and charm.

The Élégie sur la mort d’un objet chéri is written in his most moving and melancholy vein, and the Airs hongrois variés push the virtuoso violin to its absolute limits. Between these extremes lie the lyricism of the Pensées fugitives, the inventiveness of his treatment of two Halévy operas and the high spirits of his fantasy on a Strauss waltz.

The first two volumes in this series have been received with glowing critical approval: Vol.1 earned an Editor’s Choice in Gramophone and in Fanfare Robert Maxham praised Vol.2 for its ‘exceptional notes by Mark Rowe [and…] stunning performances of works both familiar and unfamiliar by violinist Sherban Lupu and pianist Ian Hobson’.

Proving as decisively as the first volume that there’s more to Ernst than finger and right-arm dexterity, the second should find its way into the collections of every lover of the violin and its literature as well as of those with even a passing interest in the years during which Ernst flourished. In fact, urgently recommended across the board.’ - Robert Maxham, Fanfare (on Vol.2)

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