Various - Richard St�hr: Chamber Music, Volume Two

Like Korngold, Toch, Schoenberg, Zeisl and Zemlinsky, Richard St�hr (1874�1967) was another Austrian composer driven into American exile by the Nazis. His generous output of music � ripe for rediscovery � includes seven symphonies, fifteen violin sonatas among much other chamber music, songs, and choral and piano pieces. His expansive E flat Piano Trio of 1905 sits firmly in the Viennese Romantic tradition downstream from Schubert and Brahms, with one lovely tune following another, whereas the Three Songs, written only four years later, look forward to the lyrical intensity of Korngold.