OLIVER TRIENDL
Labor: Piano Concertos for the Left Hand Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz/Eugene TziganeCapriccio C5521
Josef Labor (1842-1924) was a Viennese musician, largely remembered as the piano and composition teacher of Alma Schindler (before she married Mahler). The Capriccio label has lately done much to revive his own music, issuing several compelling albums of chamber music in a conservative but distinctively post-Brahmsian style. He wrote these three capriccio-like concertos near the end of his life, commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein after the pianist lost his right arm in the First World War. No 1 builds Romantic pathos through a long
