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FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Piano Concertos Vol. 2 (Incls Piano Concerto No 3) Christopher Hinterhuber (piano) / Gavle Symphony Orchestra / Uwe Grodd [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Oct/2007 ] "The Austrian pianist Christopher Hinterhuber plays with commitment and is a fine advocate for these works, just as able to command attention with flashes of fire as he is to lead the ear through the most delicate figurations. Grodd and the Gävle... |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Piano Concertos Vol 1: No 6 Op 123 & No 8 Op 151 Christopher Hinterhuber (piano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Uwe Grodd (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2005 ] "If its successors are as good as this, the series will introduce us to a lot of very attractive music." (MusicWeb Jan 2006) |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol 5 Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "Kagan's performance is simply marvellous throughout - she plays with sophistication, expression and humour that Ries himself would certainly have applauded." (MusicWeb July 2011) |
RIES / ERNST / LISZT / SARASATE / BUSONI
Naxos 20th Anniversary Concert - Virtuoso music of the 19th Century (recorded live in May 2007) Christopher Hinterhuber (piano) Ilya Grubert (violin) Wolf Harden (piano) Tianwa Yang (violin) Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) and others [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 8/Feb/2008 ] G - Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, 22 May 2007 |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Flute Quartets Op 145 John Herrick Littlefield (flute) and ensemble [ naxos / CD - released 21/Oct/2007 ] A pupil of Beethoven in Vienna, Ferdinand Ries enjoyed a successful career as a performer and as a composer. After a period in England, he finally retired to his native Rhineland where he wrote his Flute Quartets. Written in an early Romantic style,... |
BEETHOVEN / RIES
Ries: Clarinet Trios Jurgen Demmler (clarinet) / Peter Grabinger (piano) / Markus Tillier (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Feb/2006 ] Ferdinand Ries was born in Bonn in 1784, the son of Beethoven's teacher Franz Ries, a man who bad been able to offer help after the death of Beethoven's mother in 1787, Franz Ries, himself the son of a court musician, was a pupil of the... |
FERDINAND RIES
Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol 1 Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] "Kagan and Naxos are both to be commended for undertaking this project, and it is to be hoped that they will be repaid by a renewed interest in a composer whose music deserves to be heard." Fanfare |
FERDINAND RIES
Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol 4 Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Susan Kagan is an eloquent advocate and sympathetic interpreter of Ferdinand Ries's piano sonatas and sonatinas, on which she is an acknowledged authority. While clearly indebted to his teacher Beethoven, Ries was nonetheless praised by Schumann for... |