Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: The Music Of Marx, With Hints Of Rheinberger

…I used to “not get” the Richard Strauss Violin Sonata and remember sharing that sentiment with several violinist friends who then, one by one, were converted. I have joined them now, after listening to a recording that I was actually drawn to more for the Joseph Marx Spring Sonata, than young Richard’s work. And craftsman Marx composed an astonishingly untroubled work in 1944 with an If-Rachmaninoff-had-been-Viennese air …

-> Classical CD Of The Week: The Music Of Marx, With Hints Of Rheinberger

Richard Strauss / Joseph Marx, Violin Sonatas (Spät(e) Romantik), Lidia Baich (violin) Matthias Fletzberger (piano), Masoli Records