Three Also Rans: Busoni, Spohr, Pfitzner

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

David Randolph considers three composers (Busoni, Spohr and Pfitzner) whose names never quite reach the top rung in the annals of music history altbough they were famous in their own time. He airs the following works of theirs:

Violin and Orchestra Concerto by Ferruccio Busoni performed by Ziegfried Borries with the Radio Berlin Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Otto Rota (First two sections of the work)

Dialogue in Song; Loneliness by Ludwig Spohr - Taken from a Stradavari recording of soprano Alice Howland, clarinetist David Webber, and pianist Leopold Mitman.

Nonette by Ludwig Spohr - Stradavari records chamber music ensemble performs the first movement.

Symphony in C Major by Hans Pfitzner. It was recorded for Unrainia Records by the Saxon State Orchestra conducted by Karl Böhm.



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