Linda Nicholson – Loewe: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Linda Nicholson – Loewe: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3 (2024)
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Known in his lifetime as ‘the north German Schubert’, Carl Loewe (1796–1869) is remembered today chiefly as a composer of songs and 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 – with the remarkable Four Fantasies of 1854 heard here ‘documenting’ in music the contemporary emigration of German families to the United States. This third volume of Linda Nicholson’s survey of his piano music on historical instruments concludes its first-ever complete recording on any kind of piano.

Tracklist:
1-1. Linda Nicholson – 4 Phantasien, Op. 137: No. 1, Der Abschied des Auswanderers vom Vaterland (08:58)
1-2. Linda Nicholson – 4 Phantasien, Op. 137: No. 2, Meerfahrt des Auswanderers (12:09)
1-3. Linda Nicholson – 4 Phantasien, Op. 137: No. 3, Die Prairie (11:03)
1-4. Linda Nicholson – 4 Phantasien, Op. 137: No. 4, Die neue Heimath des Auswanderers (04:54)
1-5. Linda Nicholson – Der barmherzige Bruder, Op. 28 (05:34)
1-6. Linda Nicholson – Grande sonate élégique in F Minor, Op. 32: I. Grave con moto – Allegro (07:19)
1-7. Linda Nicholson – Grande sonate élégique in F Minor, Op. 32: II. Andante (03:32)
1-8. Linda Nicholson – Grande sonate élégique in F Minor, Op. 32: III. Presto (03:48)
1-9. Linda Nicholson – Grande sonate élégique in F Minor, Op. 32: IV. Finale. Presto con fuoco – Allegro (07:30)
1-10. Linda Nicholson – Gesammelte Lieder, Gesänge, Romanzen und Balladen, Op. 9, Book 3 “Gesänge der Sehnsucht”: No. 5, Sehnsucht (Arr. for Piano by Linda Nicholson) (01:45)
1-11. Linda Nicholson – Die schlanke Wasserlilie (02:04)
1-12. Linda Nicholson – Stille Liebe (Arr. for Piano by Linda Nicholson) (01:41)

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