Van Swieten Society, Heleen Hulst, Elisabeth Smalt, Mátyás Virág, Bart van Oort - Early Romantic Piano Quartets by Hummel, Ries & Schubert (2025)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 252 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 129 Mb | 00:55:54
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 252 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 129 Mb | 00:55:54
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics
Romanticism had many faces. Mozart’s spirit still floated through musical life and Beethoven’s mighty music set the benchmark for every Romantic composer. Mozart’s legacy was carried forward by two great pianists: Hummel, a pupil of Mozart, and Ries, a pupil of Beethoven. They each steered Romanticism in a different direction. Newspapers across Europe wrote of the ‘wild Romanticism’ of the bohemian Ries, now seen as a forerunner of Schumann. Meanwhile, the virtuoso Hummel enchanted and astonished his audiences. Around 1815, at the time of the Congress of Vienna, he was the most famous pianist in the world and Liszt was crazy about his music. Schubert, by contrast, was the creator and embodiment of personal expressiveness in the Romantic era. He performed only in private circles and had no interest in empty virtuosity, even though he was a superb pianist whose instrument, according to contemporaries, would sing under his hands.






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