Ries: Piano Concertos Nos. 8 & 9 (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 75)
10/27/2023, 7 Tracks, 1:13:23
Featuring
Piers Lane
Leon Botstein
The Orchestra Now
Ferdinand Ries
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Composer Biography
Ferdinand Ries was declared unfit for military service in the French army due to childhood smallpox, which had left him blind in one eye.
Composition History
Ferdinand Ries's Piano Concerto No 8, Op 151, is subtitled 'Gruss an den Rhein' ('Greeting to the Rhine'), celebrating his return to the Rhineland.
Performer Biography
Piers Lane, the pianist on this recording, has performed at the BBC Proms five times and has a concerto repertoire exceeding ninety works.
Compositional Technique
Ferdinand Ries's Piano Concerto No 8 omits oboes and gives prominence to flutes, clarinets, and horns, a choice also made by Mozart in his E flat concerto, K482.
Composer Biography
Ferdinand Ries served as Beethoven's part-time copyist and secretary, and many of his later reminiscences about Beethoven date from this period.
Compositional Technique
Ferdinand Ries's concertos, while superficially modeled on Beethoven's, feature flamboyant 'modern' piano figuration reminiscent of Hummel, Field, and the young Chopin.
Composer Biography
Ferdinand Ries, the composer, was a piano pupil of Ludwig van Beethoven, who formally acknowledged only Ries and Archduke Rudolph as his pupils after 1800.
