Robert Fürstenthal - Complete Choral Music, Vol. 1 (Various Artists)

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Composer: Robert Fürstenthal

• Piano Sonata in F Major, Op. 54
• Der Sonnengesang des Heiligen Franz von Assisi, Op. 29
• Sonata for Piano Four Hands, Op. 58

Philippa Hyde, soprano

Emma Roberts, contralto

Rory Carver, tenor

Felix Kemp, bass

Ian Buckle & Richard Casey, piano

Borealis / Skipton Camerata

Stephen Muir, conductor

Date: 2022

Label: Toccata Classics

https://toccataclassics.com/product/robert-furstenthal-complete-choral-music-volume-one/

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Robert Fürstenthal (27 June 1920 – 16 November 2016) is a composer of Austrian origin. Born into a Jewish family in Vienna, he demonstrated his taste for music early and practiced the piano, but had no academic training due to the Nazi's control of music institutions. Fürstenthal left Vienna for London in 1939, then settled in San Francisco in 1940. He enlisted in the US Army and from 1942 to 1945 served in an intelligence division in Europe. Fürstenthal composed 160 lieder on German and English poems, and about forty chamber works. His style was influenced by Richard Strauss, Hugo Wolf and Gustav Mahler.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fürstenthal

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Ian Buckle enjoys a varied freelance career working as soloist, accompanist, chamber musician, orchestral pianist and teacher. As concerto soloist he has appeared with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, Opera North, Sinfonia Viva and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Committed to contemporary music, he has been the pianist in Ensemble 10:10 since the group’s inception, and his piano duo with Richard Casey specialises in music from the last and current centuries. He is also a member of the Zephyr ensemble and the Elysnan Horn Trio. Buckle teaches at the Universities of Leeds and Liverpool.
https://www.naxos.com/person/Ian_Buckle/155382.htm

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Richard Casey was born in Manchester in 1966. He studied piano at the Royal Northern College of Music with Marjorie Clementi and Martin Roscoe, and later with Ronan O’Hora. In 1997 Casey won first prize in the British Contemporary Piano Competition. Based in Manchester, he frequently gives 2-piano concerts with his duo partner, Ian Buckle, specialising in repertoire from the 20th and 21st centuries. Since 1991 he has performed over 400 works with the group throughout Europe, Australia and the USA, and has recorded the complete piano works of Camden Reeves, Anthony Gilbert and Peter Maxwell Davies.

https://divineartrecords.com/artist/richard-casey/

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Stephen Muir (born 8th May 1972) is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Leeds, and the Principal Investigator for Performing the Jewish Archive. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and the University of Birmingham. Muir has worked as a professional percussionist and conductor, and is in demand as a tenor soloist throughout the North of England. His research focuses on the music of Russia and Eastern Europe, the critical editing of music, and Jewish liturgical music. He is Assistant Director of The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds, and a member of Leeds Baroque Choir.

https://ptjarchive.leeds.ac.uk/people/15

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