Friedrich Gernsheim - Selected Works for Piano

Jens Barnieck - Piano 4 Klavierstucke 00:00 Idyll 03:23 Capriccio 06:17 Legende 11:00 Impromptu 13:35 Capriccio in E minor 15:56 Romanze in f sharp 6 Preludes Op.2 23:32 Un poco lento e sostenuto 26:18 Andante espressivo 29:11 Allegro energico 31:41 Andantino 35:50 Allegretto vivace e leggiero 37:45 Allegro molto agitato 40:12 Fantasie in G minor Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916) was a German Composer. Max Bruch, for one, considered Gernsheim’s first symphony a work that “ranks without question among the best that has been written in this genre in our time.” He even called Brahms’s symphonies overrated and agreed with critics in that Gernsheim demonstrated a great advantage over those of his contemporaries: “its excellent orchestration.” He was given his first musical training at home under his mother’s care, then starting from the age of seven under Worms’ musical director, Louis Liebe, a former pupil of L