Goetz: Spring Overture and Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

Featuring

Kimbo Ishii
Davide Cabassi
Magdeburgische Philharmonie
Hermann Goetz

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Gustav Mahler, a celebrated composer and conductor, admired Hermann Goetz's orchestral music and frequently conducted it in his own concerts.

Compositional Technique

The Spring Overture, Op. 15, by Hermann Goetz, is programmatic music that conveys moods and memories without a specific storyline, similar to Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture.

Performer Biography

Davide Cabassi, the pianist on this recording, made his debut at age thirteen with the RAI Symphony Orchestra and was a finalist in the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Performer Biography

Kimbo Ishii, the conductor, studied violin with Walter Barylli and Dorothy DeLay before pursuing conducting studies and has been the General Music Director of the Magdeburg Theatre since 2010.

Composer Biography

Hermann Goetz, the composer, was born in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) in December 1840 and studied at the Stern Conservatoire in Berlin.

Composer Biography

Hermann Goetz's piano teacher at the Stern Conservatoire was Hans von Bülow, a renowned conductor and pianist, who later expressed pride in having taught him.

Critical Reception

George Bernard Shaw, writing as 'Corno di bassetto', provocatively asserted in 1893 that Goetz surpassed Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Schumann in his symphonic works.