Friedrich Kuhlau: Elf's Hill Suite and other works

All in all this amounts to an extended and delightfully undemanding experience and there's nothing to match it so far as Kuhlau collections are concerned...manner of Beethoven but often with... — MusicWeb International, October 2016 More…

Release Date: 9th Sep 2016
Catalogue No: MC3101
Label: Musical Concepts

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Kuhlau: Elverhøj (The Elf Hill): Suite

Odense Symphony Orchestra
Othmar Maga

Kuhlau: Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 7

Michael Ponti (piano)
Odense Symphony Orchestra
Othmar Maga

Kuhlau: Concertino For Two Horns

Ib Lanzky-Otto (horn), Frøydis Ree Wekre (horn)
Odense Symphony Orchestra
Othmar Maga

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"Overture is probably Kuhlau's best-known work....Maga gets pleasing results....very good performances" (Penguin Guide 3 stars) "Denmark was his country of adoption... Overture... fresh and engaging work which owes much to Mendelssohn....Concertino for two horns ....a "serious divertimento", as Antony Hodgson puts it in his excellent notes....Lanzky-Otto and Ree Wekre are first rate, while Michael Ponti is no less admirable in the Piano Concerto." (c) Gramophone "Kuhlau's reverence for and friendship with Beethoven informed much of his music. His C major Piano Concerto is closely modelled on Beethoven's (try Michael Ponti's superb recording - if you can track it down)(Gramophone) "The Odense orchestra play with much zest under Othmar Maga in The Elf's Hill Overture" (Gramophone)

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All in all this amounts to an extended and delightfully undemanding experience and there's nothing to match it so far as Kuhlau collections are concerned...manner of Beethoven but often with the lighter tread of his contemporaries Weber and Mendelssohn. The ballet music is given here in a single track. It effervesces with gentle life.

Friedrich Kuhlau: Elf's Hill Suite and other works

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