Mayer: Piano Concerto in B-Flat Major & Overtures Classical Orchestral & Concertos CPO

Mayer: Piano Concerto in B-Flat Major & Overtures

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CX 5554

Mayer: Piano Concerto in B-Flat Major & Overtures

Label Catalogue Number:
cpo 555 554-2

Release Date: July 2023
Originally recorded in July 2023

Genre:
Classical
Orchestral & Concertos

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In our successful and extensive Emilie Mayer Edition, we now present overtures and a piano concerto by Europe's greatest composer, who occupies a singular position in the musical world of her time, and indeed, no other composer of her generation allowed herself to be so little impressed by patriarchal gender conceit and rigid role attributions as she! Her Faust Overture was very popular at the time; there is evidence of several performances in the early 1880s. Although it is in sonata form, it is overlaid with unusual dramaturgical aspects related to the subject. Her Piano Concerto in B flat major (as far as is known, Emilie Mayer's only concertante composition) is a prime example of an individually handled classical approach.

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**** Excellent album

Yannick Millon – Classica magazine (France) – July/August 2024

“The warm period sonorities of the Kölner Akademie – pure-toned strings and downy flutes – help to place Emilie Mayer as a strongly independent contemporary of Mendelssohn and Schumann in this collection of four overtures…”

Peter Quantrill – Gramophone magazine – December 2023

“… This CD shows the journey from Mayer’s accomplished writing in the style of composers from the early 19^th century to her later works in which she finds her voice and culminating in the highly satisfying Faust overture. The Kölner Akademie under Michael Alexander Willens play magnificently and are obviously fired up by the drama of the later works while Tobias Koch is as sprightly as ever in the concerto.”

Rob Challinor – MusicWeb-International.com – 29 November 2023

Artistic Quality 9 Sound Quality 9 Overall Impression 10

“… Koch plays with a sparkling, dynamically variable touch and with an understanding of the backwards style. The Cologne Academy, under the direction of Michael Alexander Willens, accompanies him carefully …”

Klaus Trapp – klassik-heute.de – 16 October 2023

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