Credits:

Vaughan Williams, R.

Description:

200 years after his death, A. Romberg's precious concerto revealed by the masters of ancient instruments! This is a piece that allows you to experience the world of the "unknown maestro of days gone by" with the instruments and playing techniques of the time. The Capriccio Baroque Orchestra, a group of talented musicians who studied at the Schola Cantorum Basel, is dedicated to discovering the music of Beethoven and his generation, and this new recording is a well-balanced collection of Andreas Romberg's concertos from the early to late periods, which are rarely recorded even on modern instruments, In this sense, this new recording is extremely valuable. The album offers the sound world of this composer, who made his debut as a boy prodigy three years older than Beethoven, along with the brilliant gut-string playing of Silanosian, a student of Reinhard Goebel. The orchestral parts, which are written for an orchestra with timpani but no trumpet, are rich in sound and take the listener back to "200 years ago" in its rawest form, in a solid composition in the classical school style. The contrast between the contrast of the old instrumentation and the freewheeling, dramatic development that is typical of the music of the generation that came much closer to the Romanticism is a highlight of this series of pieces.Together with his cousin, cellist/composer Bernhard Romberg, who has several recordings on cpo, it is a sound world that you will want to know now after the Beethoven Year. Naxos Japan