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C5510
Originally recorded in May 2023
Classical
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Maria Herz, née Bing, was born in 1878 in Cologne. By the 1920s, she became recognized as a dynamic element of the contemporary music scene. New music’s ‘chief theoretician,’ Theodor W. Adorno, became interested in her works and their style, which was rooted in Late Romanticism and aimed at Modernism by way of Expressionism, New Objectivity, and Neo-Baroque, all while retaining its playful, charming air. She was close to a veritable Who’s Who of contemporary musicians, including the Budapest String Quartet, Gregor Piatigorsky, Emanuel Feuermann, Hermann Abendroth, Otto Klemperer, and Hans Rosbaud. In her lifetime, only five songs (1910) and a transcription of Bach’s Chaconne for string quartet (1927) were published, but all her 30 orchestral works, solo concertos, chamber music pieces, and art songs have survived in manuscripts. The Nazis seized her family’s assets and forced Maria Herz to emigrate, first to England, and, after the war, to the United States where she lived with her children and died in 1950, in New York.
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Interpretation ****** Sound ****** Repertoire *****
“… Oliver Triendl, always good for rediscovering composers or works, also throws himself into the solo part here with excellent commitment and turns it into a memorable performance. Konstanze von Gutzeit plays the cello in the concerto written for her instrument with no less vigor and sensitivity. The Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under the direction of Christiane Silber is not only an attentive and committed partner to the soloists in the two solo concertos, but also performs the two small-format orchestral pieces with a love of detail and for shaping the artistic characteristics of the compositions by Maria Herz that can be heard.” *****
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