New recording: music by Amanda Maier
Recordings of Amanda Maier's music released on the 6th of October on dB Productions
More world premiere recordings of Amanda Maier’s (1853-1894) music! The first volume (2016) of this remarkable, Swedish-German composer, married to composer Julius Rontgen and close friend of Edvard Grieg, Johannes Brahms and other great musicians of the time, has been a great success. On Volume 2, Swedish leading violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and pianist Bengt Forsberg lovingly perform Maier’s beautiful violin sonata, and Nine pieces for violin and piano. Soprano Sabina Bisholt makes her CD debut with her interpretation of Maier’s great songs. World premiere recordings of 8 of the 17 tracks!
Listen to a sample
Cecilia and Amanda Maier's 18th Century VIolin
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The record has been very well received and got great reviews, all reviews can be read here.
Five star review in Hifi & Musik here (in swedish)
Listen to radio interview on previous Skog/Nilsson recording "Contemporary Violin Concertos", where you can also hear Zilliacus play Maier’s beautiful violin sonata.
Reviewed on BBC 3! (about 14 min into the programme!)