Romberg, A: Concerto No. 4 in C Major
Romberg, A: Concerto No. 12 in G Minor
Romberg, A: Concerto No. 9 in A Major
Born in Lower Saxony just three years before Beethoven, the violinist Andreas Romberg (1767-1821) was, like him, a virtuoso instrumentalist of precocious gifts. His career too was radically affected by the Napoleonic Wars and a formative encounter with Haydn. And, as with Beethoven, his most popular work was a choral setting of a poem by Schiller: Das Lied von der Glocke, premiered in 1809. Romberg wrote an enormous number of violin concertos, but only sixteen manuscript scores of his entire oeuvre have survived, all of them in Hamburg. Chouchane Siranossian has decided to revive and make the world premiere recording of three concertos, thus revealing an interesting composer and a trio of highly virtuosic works.
"Capriccio Barockorchester means business right from the tightly rhythmic opening of the Fourth Concerto, with the bright sound emphasising the gutsy attack of the strings and tang of the winds…[Siranossian] sounds more comfortable in lyrical music at the lower end of the range. The pacing of the music is convincingly flexible, and the orchestra stays with her all the time." - BBC Music Magazine, March 2021.
