I have been grooving on the music of Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916)
for quite a few months.  I first discovered him at Berkshire Record
Outlet in a two- cd set of the complete symphonies on the Arte Nova
label.  Here is the Amazon Url via classical.net

   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000EQ47I6/classicalnet

Do you love Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Brahms?  If your answer is a
resounding "wowee!" then run out and get this set!  (I checked at Amazon
to see how available they are.  The set I bought has been re-issued and
it is a budget buy, too!  The Staatsphilharmonic Rheinland-Pfalz orchestra
is terrific, and the music is over the top.

Gernsheim also wrote string quartets, and one of them (op.31) is on
Audite 97.503 pared with Brahms op.51#1 played beautifully by the
Mandelring quartet.

This also points to Amazon via classical.net

   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006SSP08/classicalnet

The string quartet parts to this and (many!)other quartets are also
available at Merton Music (online catalog is here:)

   http://www.classical.net/music/links/commercial/publisher/merton/

I just noticed and purchased but haven't yet received the Gernsheim
cello concerto.  It's on Volume 2 of the Hyperion Romantic Cello Concerto
series and contains works by Albert Dietrich, Robert Schumann and Robert
Volkmann.  Ever more Romantic roads to explore!

Mimi Ezust

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