Title: Symphony No. 4 in B minor, reconstructed orchestration Artist: NDR Radiophilharmonie Label: Cpo Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 761203561520 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2025-06-06 Number of Discs: 1
Even today, there are those who want to hear the same "female Beethoven" in Emilie Mayer that contemporaries of the Prussian composer believed to recognise in her works. The label of course does not explain the artist's notable successes. She had a classically informed but romantically inspired temperament and was successful in negotiating the balance between both worlds. The blurring of boundaries she creates is not intrusive, but is hidden among other places in her individual treatment of the large orchestra she calls for. This was a very special challenge for the orchestrator Andreas N. Tarkmann when he reconstructed the lost score of the B minor Symphony from the piano reduction for this recording. A highly dramatic panorama that results is a convincing connection to the Symphony in E major written two years later, creating a further journey of discovery through the world of Emilie Mayer.
Tracks: 1.1 Symphony No. 4 in B minor~Allegro appassionato 1.2 Symphony No. 4 in B minor~Adagio 1.3 Symphony No. 4 in B minor~Allegro 1.4 Symphony No. 4 in B minor~Finale. Presto 1.5 Symphony No. 6 in E major~Adagio - Allegro con spirito 1.6 Symphony No. 6 in E major~Marcia funebre. Andante maestoso 1.7 Symphony No. 6 in E major~Scherzo 1.8 Symphony No. 6 in E major~Finale. Allegro
