Product Review

Richard Stöhr (18741967) was yet another Austrian composer driven by the Nazis into American exile. His output ripe for rediscovery includes 7 symphonies, 15 violin sonatas among much other chamber music, songs, choral and piano pieces. His two cello and piano works, recorded here in the first of a series of Stöhr CDs, reveal a lyrical and expressive composer downstream from Brahms and Schumann. The disc continues the Toccatas rediscovery of composers who suffered under the Third Reich.