Ries: Works for Flute and Piano

Featuring

Uwe Grodd
Matteo Napoli
Ferdinand Ries

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Composer Biography

Ferdinand Ries was a pupil of Beethoven in Vienna for three years, during which he frequently acted as Beethoven's secretary and copyist.

Performer Biography

Uwe Grodd, the flautist and conductor on this album, won First Prize at the Cannes Classical Awards 2000 for 'Best 18th Century Orchestral Recording'.

Performer Biography

Matteo Napoli, the pianist on this album, gave the first modern performance of Ferdinand Ries's Piano Concerto No. 6 in Auckland in 2003, with Uwe Grodd conducting.

Compositional Technique

Ferdinand Ries's flute writing is idiomatic and brilliant, yet it remains within the technical capabilities of a gifted amateur player, suitable for the cultivated middle-class market.

Composer Biography

Ferdinand Ries spent eleven years of his career in London, where he was a celebrated virtuoso, teacher, and composer, prominently featuring in the Philharmonic Concerts.

Composer's Artistic Vision

As a freelance composer, Ferdinand Ries wrote many smaller compositions in a popular style, including fantasies and variations on operatic tunes, to cater to the market.

Composer Biography

Ferdinand Ries, a composer and one of Europe's greatest pianists of his time, is surprisingly not better known today, despite his long association with Beethoven.