Contrapuntal Flight

'... played with their customary skill by Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow.'

Hans Gál has long been on my music shelves, not as composer but rather as editor in connection with the Brahms Complete Edition. Adolf Hitler chased him out of Mainz in Germany, and then from Vienna. It was the farsighted Donald Tovey who lured him to Edinburgh. A prolific composer of operas, symphonies, many choral works, and much chamber music, he scored more than a century of opus numbers...