Oliver Triendl, Tineke van Ingelgem, Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock & Marcuus Bosch - Mathilde Kralik von Meyrswalden - Hermann Grädener (2026) [Hi-Res]

This recording offers the pleasure of discovering unfamiliar music from a time that is actually very familiar to us. Hermann Grädener was a contemporary of Antonín Dvořák and Edvard Grieg. He was primarily active in Vienna. With family roots in Rostock, Kiel, and Hamburg, he was the second “northerner” in the Habsburg metropolis, alongside the far better-known Johannes Brahms.

We also encounter Mathilde Kralik von Meyrswalden, who was active in Vienna at almost the same time as Grädener. She came from a Bohemian family of glass manufacturers and grew up in Linz—very close to her most important teacher, Anton Bruckner. She composed a single symphony—which she completely revised at the end of her life, giving it a hymnal conclusion, even though it was not a time for celebration; the composer lived through World War II in poverty and inner isolation.