Sterkel: Symphonies op. 11/2 & 11/3

Today, his work has "no significant presence either in recordings or in concert performances", as anyone who wants to find out about the life and work of the composer, pianist and priest Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel learns from the web of unlimited possibilities. This view will have to change in the foreseeable future, as the legacy of this versatile man from Würzburg that has since been brought back into the public eye arouses a curiosity that grows with every encounter and is rewarded with ever more surprising creations. Now, the three highly acclaimed chamber works that cpo released in November (jpc 11169422) are joined by two of the once much-performed symphonies and one of the six piano concertos that the spiritual gentleman composed to develop his classically polished, virtuoso oratory and for everyone's enjoyment of his presence.