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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: eternalorphea on Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:39

Title: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: eternalorphea on Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:39
CD (http://blog.livedoor.jp/yoko51415/archives/51350868.html)

(http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/yoko51415/imgs/6/2/62886b57.jpg)

(http://mic.hr/images/composers/dora/gallery/files/picture_34.jpg)
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: Alan Howe on Tuesday 17 February 2015, 17:11
Can you tell us about availability, please?
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: Alan Howe on Tuesday 17 February 2015, 17:34
Sorry, eternalorphea, I had to delete your last post because the script was incomprehensible. I suspect a translation is needed...
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: eternalorphea on Tuesday 17 February 2015, 18:56
Incomprehensible you say? Well, how to whom.. I should therefore feel special for having the opportunity to use the service of Google Translator?
Publisher: Herb Classics HERB023 / 024
Price: 4860 yen (tax included)
Orders: yoko51415@yahoo.co.jp
Your destination, name, address, e-mail address
Number of items
Free shipping
I will send along the guidance of payment method.
Mail payment or bank transfer.
Thank you
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: Gareth Vaughan on Tuesday 17 February 2015, 19:43
Of what do her complete piano works consist, please? I believe there are two, if not three sonatas. Is that right?
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: Alan Howe on Tuesday 17 February 2015, 20:58
Thanks, eternalorphea. The problem was indecipherable characters, not incomprehensible language. I suspect the problem occurred in the copying of Japanese characters into you message. Anyway, however it happened, it was gobbledygook!
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: Alan Howe on Tuesday 17 February 2015, 21:02
CD1 includes her Piano Sonata in B flat minor, Op.36; CD2 includes her Piano Sonata in A flat major Op.57 (in one movement).
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: Gareth Vaughan on Tuesday 17 February 2015, 21:04
Thank you, Alan.
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: Alan Howe on Tuesday 17 February 2015, 21:05
For those who want to see the Japanese webpage, follow this link:
http://blog.livedoor.jp/yoko51415/archives/51350868.html (http://blog.livedoor.jp/yoko51415/archives/51350868.html)
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: eternalorphea on Tuesday 17 February 2015, 21:22
Wikipedia lists Compositions for solo piano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Peja%C4%8Devi%C4%87#Compositions_for_solo_piano)

I can see on the photo that on the back side of the CD ther's a logo of the MIC (Muzički Informativni Centar - Croatian Music Informations Center), what gives me a clue to why JPC-CPO didn't yet publish her complete works for solo piano (recorded in 2013, performed by Nataša Veljković) as the complete Pejačević series was conceived in collaboration of these two investors.
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: Gareth Vaughan on Tuesday 17 February 2015, 21:35
Do we know whether there are any plans for a modern recording of her PC and perhaps the Overture for large orchestra?
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: eternalorphea on Tuesday 17 February 2015, 21:49
I guess CPO planned like this

I. Orchestral (symphony, phantasie concertante)
II. Lieder
III. Chamber (cello sonata, piano trio No.2)
IV. Chamber (string quartet no.2, piano quartet, piano quintet)
V. Chamber (works for violin and piano)
VI. Piano
VII. Orchestral (piano concerto, overture; songs for voice and orchestra)

I believe, and would commercially make sense, the PC and Grand Overture were done at once with the Symphony and Phantasi Concertante, all together. The pianist is probably Aleksandar Madžar. CPO's chief/program selection director is Burkhard Schmilgun, whose wife's a Serb, and her acquaintances Veljković and Madžar.
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: Gareth Vaughan on Tuesday 17 February 2015, 21:58
Thank you very much. It is nice to know CPO have not decided to ignore the PC - and I would love to hear that overture.
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: eternalorphea on Wednesday 18 February 2015, 11:01
(http://mic.hr/images/composers/dora/gallery/files/picture_51.jpg) (http://mic.hr/images/composers/dora/gallery/files/picture_12.jpg)
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: eternalorphea on Thursday 19 February 2015, 06:34
Detailed info on the CD and the pianist on the web-site of HERB Classics
http://www.herb-classics.jp/cn8/pg99.html (http://www.herb-classics.jp/cn8/pg99.html)
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 19 February 2015, 09:32
Can one order via their website?
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: eternalorphea on Thursday 19 February 2015, 14:18

Hi Mr. Howe,

This's a G-translation, and no corrections of mine done

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About HERB Classics

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Contact us

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Contact information:
Tel & Fax 042-444-3239
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Payment method
Please transfer the money to the following bank account. As soon as payment is confirmed, we will send the goods.
Payment method
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Title: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works - on Amazon
Post by: eternalorphea on Friday 20 February 2015, 07:51

Now you can buy Pejačević CD on Amazon!
Pejacevic Piano Works on Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/B00TF7WWV4/ref=dp_change_lang?ie=UTF8&language=en_JP)
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: Alan Howe on Friday 20 February 2015, 09:57
Thanks for the information.

The price at Amazon.co.jp converts to £37.53 (including postage) - which is pretty expensive! Still, it depends how much one wants the set...
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: eternalorphea on Friday 20 February 2015, 11:00
Wooow! Perhaps they're trying not to sell it? :>

I mean, though Dora Pejačević merits the pedestal of high artictic dignity, it's not she whose playing's recorded on the CD; in that case I would set aside the money for it.

Now I'm left with having to wait for a pirated copy, or the CPO's edition
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: Alan Howe on Friday 20 February 2015, 12:55
I've ordered it nevertheless, so it'd better be good...
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: eternalorphea on Friday 20 February 2015, 13:31
Ok, I'm eager to hear from you on that.. =D

About the CPO edition, this is a documentary about/ interview with Nataša Veljković. She plays nothing Pejačević's in it, but mostly Schumann I think (in unaccompanied music) whose her fav comp, and others. She speaks in Croatian(-Serbian) language, but anyway the point is in hearing the quality of her interpretation and technique in the very video devoted to that aspect. Seems to me she's good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q303VMG8q4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q303VMG8q4)
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: eternalorphea on Monday 23 February 2015, 11:03
The CD release concert will be held on March 28 (Saturday), 2015, at this (http://takagiklavier.com/salon.html) venue.
Facebook page of the pianist Yoko Nishii (https://ja-jp.facebook.com/yoko.nishii.pf) providing up-to-date info.
..and on Twitter Yoko Nishii (https://twitter.com/yokonishii)

(http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/yoko51415/imgs/8/7/87845e83.jpg)
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: eternalorphea on Monday 02 March 2015, 20:37
CD report-review (March 1st, 2015) LINK (http://inokuchi.cocolog-nifty.com/recording/2015/03/post-f666.html)

(http://inokuchi.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/2015/03/01/img_5429_1.jpg) (http://inokuchi.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/2015/03/01/img_5437_1.jpg)
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: Alan Howe on Monday 02 March 2015, 20:56
My copy's now on its way from Amazon in Japan, so excitement is mounting...
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: eternalorphea on Monday 02 March 2015, 21:30
Mine's too. I ordered it from Yoko direct. Ah, the excitement, mounting indeed..!
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: eternalorphea on Thursday 12 March 2015, 06:49
Actually the CD had arrived on the address on March 3rd, but only yesterday late evening have I arrived on the same address too. So, I listened to it complete in a row, from midnight to 03:00 AM. It met what I expected, the complete piano works of Dora in a solid interpretation recorded with high quality equipment
Title: Re: CD Release: Dora Pejačević, Complete Piano Works (2CD) by Yoko Nishii
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 12 March 2015, 10:58
Yes, it's a very good set. More about the music when I've had time to listen properly...