Soloistes Europeens/Konig - Louise Farrenc: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3

Pursuing a musical career was no easy matter for women in the 19th century, but Louise Farrenc�s character and determination resulted in her becoming a respected part of the European scene, and the first ever female senior professor of piano at the Paris Conservatoire. Farrenc�s Second Symphony owes something to Mozartian models, with imaginative writing for winds and hints of Beethoven. The Third Symphony is notable for a richness of harmonic writing which, in its colour and lyricism, is reminiscent of Mendelssohn and Schumann.