(2018) Othmar Schoeck: Vom Fischer un syner Fru Johannes Brahms never strayed far from the

never strayed far from the roots of “jump”

Thomas Mann said of the String Quintet that it is the music one would like to hear on one’s deathbed

Commissioned by the Rouen Haute-Normandie Opera

to her social activism as a Suffragette in the UK

and here both are in tip-top order

(2018) Othmar Schoeck: Vom Fischer un syner Fru Johannes Brahms never strayed far from theWhen Othmar Schoeck began writing Vom Fischer un syner Fru (The Fisherman and his Wife) in the summer of 1928, he happened to be on an extended stay at Werner Reinhart's holiday house on the "Fluh" in Maur on the Greifensee lake. The Winterthur merchant Reinhart (18841951), who worked in the Gebrder Volkart family business and possessed a considerable fortune, was also a patron of music. He supported numerous musical personalities of the 20th century