Johann Kaspar Mertz: Le Romantique

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Release Date: 6th Apr 2015
Catalogue No: ACC24303
Label: Accent
Length: 78 minutes

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Mertz: Harmonie du Soir

Work length9:15

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Raphaëlla Smits (guitar)
Recorded: August 1988
Recording Venue: Parochiecentrum 'O. L. Vrouw', Boom, Belgium

Mertz: Le Romantique

Work length7:07

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Raphaëlla Smits (guitar)
Recorded: August 1988
Recording Venue: Parochiecentrum 'O. L. Vrouw', Boom, Belgium

Mertz: Bardenklange, Op. 13

Work length4:11

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Raphaëlla Smits (guitar)
Recorded: August 1988
Recording Venue: Parochiecentrum 'O. L. Vrouw', Boom, Belgium

Bardenklange, Op. 13: No. 6. Tarantelle

Track length4:11

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Mertz: Introduction et Rondo Brillant, Op. 11

Work length7:50

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Raphaëlla Smits (guitar)
Recorded: August 1988
Recording Venue: Parochiecentrum 'O. L. Vrouw', Boom, Belgium

Schubert: 6 Schubertian Songs (arr. J. Mertz for guitar)

Work length25:58

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Raphaëlla Smits (guitar)
Recorded: September 2003
Recording Venue: Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Kerk, Haarlem, The Netherlands

No. 6. Lob der Tranen

Track length4:58

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No. 5. Das Fischermadchen

Track length2:49

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No. 1. Standchen

Track length5:14

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No. 2. Liebesbotschaft

Track length4:26

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No. 4. Aufenthalt

Track length4:58

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No. 3. Die Post

Track length3:33

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Mertz: Le Carnaval de Venise, Op. 6

Work length2:45

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Raphaëlla Smits (guitar)
Recorded: May 2001
Recording Venue: Parochiecentrum 'O. L. Vrouw', Boom, Belgium

Excerpt, Mertz: Morceaux (3), Op. 65

Work length5:02

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Raphaëlla Smits (guitar)
Recorded: May 2001
Recording Venue: Parochiecentrum 'O. L. Vrouw', Boom, Belgium

3 Morceaux, Op. 65: No. 3. Le Gondolier

Track length5:02

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Mertz: Pianto dell'amante

Work length4:54

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Raphaëlla Smits (guitar)
Recorded: May 2001
Recording Venue: Parochiecentrum 'O. L. Vrouw', Boom, Belgium

Mertz: La Rimembranza

Work length6:15

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Raphaëlla Smits (guitar)
Recorded: May 2001
Recording Venue: Parochiecentrum 'O. L. Vrouw', Boom, Belgium

Mertz: Souvenir de Choulhoff

Work length5:28

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Raphaëlla Smits (guitar)
Recorded: May 2001
Recording Venue: Parochiecentrum 'O. L. Vrouw', Boom, Belgium

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Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856), originally from Pressburg (today Bratislava), lived and worked in Vienna from 1840; this city was the focal point of the musical world during the first half of the 19th century. Mertz was one of the best-known guitar virtuosos of his time, composing brilliant works for his own use on his numerous concert tours. In these compositions, he orientated himself on the romantic piano music of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin and especially Liszt, but the influences of Italian Belcanto in the style of Donizetti or Bellini can be clearly heard as well. Many guitarists and composers of the 19th century used instruments with an expanded range. Mertz changed from a six-stringed guitar to an instrument with eight strings, finally settling on a guitar with ten-strings.

Raphaëlla Smits, the Belgian Grande Dame of the Guitar, uses two historic French instruments for this recording (by Mirecourt c1827 and by Roudhloff c1830), as well as an eight-stringed instrument by the luthier John Gilbert. The present recording features the grand fantasias 'Harmonie du soir' and' Le Romantique', the latter of which has provided the title of the CD. Alongside several other works, some of which were published posthumously, Raphaëlla Smits has also recorded Mertz's transcriptions of six Schubert Lieder, influenced by Liszt's Schubert transcriptions for piano, and the listener completely forgets that these works once had texts.

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