Chamber Music 1 Music for Violin & Pno I

The German-Dutch composer Julius Röntgen (18551932) composed an astonishing number of works: 25 symphonies, seventeen concerti, 32 string quartets, sixteen string trios, fourteen piano trios, many sonatas for his five string-player sons, as well as works in almost every other genre. This vast output has at last begun to emerge from obscurity, with a number of recordings testifying to his astonishing craftsmanship and exquisite sense of melody, balancing skill and spontaneity. The works recorded here confirm his extraordinary ability to write one gorgeous tune after another. All these works are receiving their first recordings here; Aus Jotunheim, based on Norwegian folktunes and composed as a present for Grieg and his wife, was first written for violin and piano and that version gets a first recording here, too.