The past and the future collide in the early romantic period – music of Schubert, Berlioz, Wagner, Mendelssohn, and a long-overlooked English composer of the period, Alice Mary Smith.
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WDCE, University of Richmond
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Berlioz: “Rob-Roy Macgregor” Overture
Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Charles Dutoit
(Decca)
Alice Mary Smith: Symphony in C minor
London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley
(Chandos)
Wagner: “Lohengrin” – Act 1 Prelude
Orchestre du Théâtre national de l’Opéra/André Cluytens
(Erato)
Mendelssohn: Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Op. 35, No. 1
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
(Decca)
Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D. 956
Alban Berg Quartet
Heinrich Schiff, cello
(Warner Classics)
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