Timothy Roberts - Joan Cabanilles: Keyboard Music, Volume Three

Heinrich Sutermeister (1910�95) belongs to the generation of Swiss composers after Bloch, Honegger, Martin and Schoeck. The runaway success of his operatic version of Romeo and Juliet � in the 1950s it was the most widely produced modern opera after Der Rosenkavalier � soon spread his reputation far afield, and conductors as prominent as B�hm, Karajan and Sawallisch championed his works. Although his star has waned in the quarter-century since his death, the four orchestral works recorded here � ranging from the dramatic suite he drew from that first Shakespearean operatic success via the easy-going charm of two lighter suites to his deeply felt response to the Swiss landscape � bring a salutary reminder of why his music appeals so directly to its audiences.