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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) |
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Ries: Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol 3 Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] A virtuoso pianist, Ferdinand Ries began composing piano sonatas at a time when the genre was undergoing significant changes from the models of Haydn and Mozart to new developments by Clementi, Beethoven and Hummel. Ries also pre-figures Schubert's... |
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Ries: Piano Concertos, Vol. 3 (Incls 'Piano Concerto in A minor) Christopher Hinterhuber (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Uwe Grodd [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "An admirable collection, made all the more desirable by the pianism of Christopher Hinterhuber. It's been a while since I've heard playing of such consistent quality" (MusicWeb June 2009) |
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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,... |
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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... |
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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 |
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Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol 2 Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2008 ] Ferdinand Ries, Beethoven's friend and pupil, was an exceptionally gifted composer whose prophetic piano sonatas foreshadow Schubert's poignant harmonic language, Mendelssohn's expressively sweet melodies and Chopin's brilliant figuration. |
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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... |
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Ries: Works for Flute and Piano Uwe Grodd (flute) / Matteo Napoli (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Oct/2010 ] |