Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 3

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Mayer’s lively Sixth is full of both charm and wit – check out the mousey squeaks in the finale, for instance. The ‘Military’ Third, meanwhile, wears its nickname lightly, but is a similarly... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Jul 2022
Catalogue No: HC22016
Label: Hänssler
Length: 69 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2023

Nominated - Symphonic Music

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Mayer, E: Symphony No. 6 in E major

Work length38:23

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Philharmonisches Orchester Bremerhaven
Marc Niemann

I. Adagio - Allegro con spirito

Track length14:24

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II. Marcia funebre. Andante maestoso

Track length10:05

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III. Scherzo

Track length7:16

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IV. Finale. Allegro

Track length6:38

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Mayer, E: Symphony No. 3 in C major 'Sinfonie Militar'

Work length31:03

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Philharmonisches Orchester Bremerhaven
Marc Niemann

I. Adagio - Allegro con brio

Track length10:17

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II. Un poco adagio

Track length6:52

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III. Scherzo. Allegro

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IV. Finale militair. Adagio - Allegro vivace

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The long overdue rediscovery of Emilie Mayer naturally earns her the near-universal label of "female Beethoven", which she was called even by her contemporaries. On the one hand that is a great honour, for Mayer is indeed considered the most successful symphonist among the composing women of the Romantic era. She was thus not content with the "domestic" genres of Lieder, piano works and chamber music, which is all that her female colleagues were generally allowed; on the contrary, she designed symphonies on the grand scale. On the other hand, that label shows that people are still thinking along gender-specific lines - even if they have happily escaped the 19th-century mindset that hampered Emilie Mayer's own career. As late as 1878, the Neue Berliner Musikzeitung was describing her as a "rare phenomenon" and an "exception" to the rule that the "production" of orchestral works was solely the "domain of the creative male intellect". By that date, Emilie Mayer had already presented eight symphonies. And in 1850, almost 30 years earlier, a critic had exclaimed in the same paper: "Hitherto woman's fair hand has mastered the Lied at most (... ). What female powers, powers of the second rank, can attain - that is what Emilie Mayer has achieved and reproduced."

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October 2022

Mayer’s lively Sixth is full of both charm and wit – check out the mousey squeaks in the finale, for instance. The ‘Military’ Third, meanwhile, wears its nickname lightly, but is a similarly engaging listen throughout.

September 2022

The Bremerhaven orchestra...does a good overall job... The audio quality is excellent... I feel that Emilie Mayer is up there with the best.

Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 3

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