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Friday, January 28, 2022

Friedrich Gernsheim - Complete Cello Sonatas (Alexander Hülshoff; Oliver Triendl)


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Composer: Friedrich Gernsheim
  • (01) Cello Sonata No. 3 in E Minor, Op. 87
  • (04) Elohenu – Hebraic biblical song
  • (05) Cello Sonata No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 79
  • (08) Andante, Op. 64b
  • (09) Cello Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 12

Alexander Hülshoff, cello
Oliver Triendl, piano

Date: 2018
Label: cpo

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Review

‘This composer, who was never given to writing for writing’s sake, must not be regarded as a mere disciple of the classics,’ says Cobbett’s Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music of Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916). ‘He advanced with his times and became far more modern as regards harmony than his friend Max Bruch, with whom he had much in common.’

I make it a rule never to gainsay Cobbett, but – well, if you say so. I’d meant to begin this review by saying that he was a pupil of Moscheles, a teacher of Humperdinck and an admirer of Brahms and that his works for cello sound exactly as you’d expect from that background; namely sincere, well-crafted music in which every other bar (even in Elohenu, a short exploration of Gernsheim’s Jewish musical heritage inspired by Bruch’s Kol Nidrei) simply reeks of Brahms.

It’s not a question of early influences either. The Second and Third sonatas, both in the Brahms-favoured key of E minor, date from Gernsheim’s last decade. The First Sonata, written in 1868, is actually the most distinctive of the three, with a melodic brightness and an enthusiastic ardour that suggests Schumann – perhaps even the influence of Gernsheim’s teenage years in Paris, where he made the acquaintance of Saint Saëns and Rossini.

If that sounds to your taste, this CPO release might well fill a gap in your collection. Alexander Hülshoff isn’t a particularly charismatic cellist – his upper register is reedy and he occasionally fumbles high-altitude passagework – and Oliver Triendl’s piano, which dominates the balance, manages to sound simultaneously tinny and slightly muffled. But they’re committed, musicianly players, and these performances are sincere, inoffensive and perfectly serviceable. Rather like the music itself.

-- Richard Bratby, Gramophone

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Friedrich Gernsheim (17 July 1839 – 10 September 1916) was a German composer, conductor and pianist. Gernsheim studied with Louis Liebe in Worms, Edward Rosenhain in Frankfurt, and Ignaz Moscheles in Leipzig. was a prolific composer, especially of orchestral, chamber and instrumental music, and songs. His earlier works show the influence of Schumann, and from 1868, a Brahmsian influence is very palpable. Gernsheim taught music at the Cologne Conservatory (his pupils there included Engelbert Humperdinck and Carl Lachmund). In the latter year he became a teacher at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Gernsheim

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Alexander Hülshoff (born February 19, 1969 in Mannheim, Germany) is German cellist. His most important teachers was Martin Ostertag and cellist Lynn Harrell. Hülshoff's concert tours regularly take him to other European countries, the Near, Middle and Far East as well as to Asia and North and South America. His numerous recordings, including works by Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert, Shostakovich, Bloch and Servais, are released on the Novalis, Naxos, Musicaphon, Paladino, Brilliant and Hänssler Classic labels. Since 2011 Hülshoff has been the artistic director of the Villa Musica.
http://www.naxos.com/person/Alexander_Hulshoff/96057.htm
http://www.alexander-huelshoff.de/

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Olivier Triendl (born 1970 in Mallersdorf, Bavaria) is a German pianist. He studied with Rainer Fuchs, Karl-Heinz Diehl, Eckart Besch, Gerhard Oppitz and Oleg Maisenberg, and is winner of several national and international competitions. As a soloist as well as a chamber musician, Triendl established himself in recent years as an extremely versatile artist, with about 100 CD recordings demonstrate his commitment to the unknown repertoire of the classical, romantic and contemporary music. In 2006 he founded the International Chamber Music Festival “Classix Kempten” in Kempten, Bavaria.
http://www.icmf.nl/en/musician/oliver-triendl/

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