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 ​The Rossetti Ensemble's three CDs of the fascinating music of Robert   Fürstenthal is now available from Toccata Classics. This was a   major undertaking for the ensemble who were excited to discover sonatas for violin, viola, cello, oboe, flute and horn   (all  with piano), as well as   piano trios and a string   quartet. Music   of quality, none of which having   been previously recorded. The CDs   can be  listened to at the Toccata Classics   website or on spotify..... 
 https://toccataclassics.com/product/robert-furstenthal-chamber-music-volume-one/ or
https://open.spotify.com/artist/63GEafFP4LOjydeARCrx22
    
 When Germany invaded Austria in 1938, Robert Fürstenthal, born in 1920,   took the path of many Viennese Jews and fled to the United States, where   he made his living as an accountant; the fact that he had written music in his youth was soon forgotten. Re-connection, after 35 years, with the woman who had been his first love rekindled both that flame and his urge to compose, and from then on songs and chamber music flowed from his pen, preserving the spirit of fin-de-siècle Vienna under the Californian sun – ‘When I compose, I am back in Vienna’, he explained. He died in November 2016, aged 96, knowing that his lyrical, eloquent music was at last attracting the attention of both musicians and microphones.



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