Potter: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 2

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Label
CPO
Release Date
January 3, 2025
Format
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Cipriani Potter
    • PERFORMER
      BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 03, 2025
    • UPC
      0761203550029
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555500-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

Unlike his namesake Harry, Cypriani Potter did not learn his craft at Hogwarts, but with renowned British composers and then put the finishing touches to his music in Vienna - above all with Ludwig van Beethoven, who undoubtedly taught him some particularly effective tricks. In any case, there is an unmistakable magic in his works: at times it is delightful melodies, at others dramatic energy build-ups or rhythmically urgent episodes that give his music such an appeal that it is worth recording all of his surviving symphonies (nine, after all) and garnishing them with a few smaller pieces - in the present program, for example, with the Overture to Shakespeare's Tempest and with the original Concertante for piano and four strings on the popular theme La Follia, which Potter animates to a veritable outburst of temperament.