Ferdinand Ries - Piano Concertos Vol. 1 (Naxos Audio CD)

RIES: Piano Concertos, Vol. 1
The eight piano concertos of Beethoven’s friend and pupil Ferdinand Ries stand alongside those of Hummel as the most important works of their kind from the early 19th Century. Intensely lyrical and yet displaying at times a rugged Beethovenian power, Ries’s concertos are works of impressive musical stature. This world première recording features the Concerto in C major composed in 1806 shortly after Ries completed his studies in Vienna with Beethoven, and the majestic Concerto in A flat ‘Gruss an den Rhein’, written twenty years later on his return to the Rhineland, which looks forward to the piano writing of Chopin.

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Ferdinand Ries

Piano Concerto No. 8 in A flat major, Op. 151, "Gruss an den Rhein", "Salut au Rhin"

Hinterhuber, Christopher, piano
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Grodd, Uwe, Conductor


I. Allegro con moto 12:43
II. Larghetto con moto 05:01
III. Rondo: Allegro molto 11:17
Piano Concerto No. 6 in C major, Op. 123

Hinterhuber, Christopher, piano
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Grodd, Uwe, Conductor


I. Allegro con spirito 15:04
II. Larghetto quasi andante 06:32
III. Rondo: Allegro vivace 10:20



Total Playing Time: 01:00:57