Fuchs & Kiel: Piano Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 31)

Featuring

Martin Roscoe
Martyn Brabbins
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Robert Fuchs
Friedrich Kiel

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Critical Reception

After his death, Friedrich Kiel was quickly labeled an 'academician' by lexicographers, a term used to describe sterile guardians of musical tradition opposed to artistic progress.

Performer Biography

Martin Roscoe, the pianist on this recording, has performed with all major UK orchestras and has made over four hundred broadcasts on BBC Radio 3.

Composer Biography

Robert Fuchs (1847-1927) was the thirteenth child of a schoolteacher and showed an early liking for music, receiving his first lessons on piano, violin, flute, and thorough bass from a brother-in-law.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Johannes Brahms highly valued Robert Fuchs's compositional abilities, describing him as 'probably the finest talent in Vienna' and a 'splendid musician' whose works always gave pleasure.

Composer Biography

Friedrich Kiel (1821-1885) was also the son of a schoolteacher and, like Fuchs, was too modest to actively promote his own works.

Composer Biography

Robert Fuchs taught a generation of pupils who would bridge to modernism, including Hugo Wolf, Jean Sibelius, and Erich Korngold, at the Conservatory in Vienna.

Composition History

Johannes Brahms was initially skeptical about Robert Fuchs's Piano Concerto in B flat minor, Op. 27, believing Fuchs lacked the necessary virtuosity to write a rousing piano concerto.