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#1
of Charles Stanford's music is an exact duplicate (same narration, music, etc) of an earlier Stanford COTW, or a new one? Thanks :)
#2
Composers & Music / Le dernier sorcier
Wednesday 06 March 2024, 03:24
Just saw Viardot-Garcia's 2-act operetta Le dernier sorcier to a libretto by Turgenev (and orchestrated by Eduard Lassen) at Ithaca College. There's a 2005 recording of this 1989-rediscovered work but it completely flew under my radar- unfortunately. Terrific work and production.
#3
This isn't a new broadcast, but I don't think it's been mentioned here before, nor to my knowledge has this work yet received a commercial recording (unlike the quintet in D from 1926 on Hanssler.)
See Das Else Ensemble spielt Kahns Quintett op54.
#4
The SWR2 Music of the Week podcast for this week is Ariane Matiakh conducting the Orch. of Gast in Mayer's last surviving symphony, in a concert from last September.
#5
who I've asked about previously (quite awhile ago) - a premiere recording of some of his chamber music came out just last year. (Probably the first recording of any of his chamber music, I'm guessing.) I have not (yet) heard it. Has anyone here?
#6
Last year, Albion Music released a compilation disc devoted to works of Vaughan Williams, including his Serenade to Music (and so titled) intended to be released as near as possible to the 150th anniversary of his birth- Musicweb gave it a good review here
Presto Classical has announced a followup themed disc, this time of historic recordings, including what looks like the premiere (1938) recording of the Serenade, of music by various composers with vocal contributions by the various dedicatees of the Serenade, to be issued on 22 March - see here - that also looks very interesting (ALBCD059, not 053, in this case.) Also a description of it on this page. (Quoting Propermusic.com - "This album - uniquely - comprises 18 newly remastered tracks from 78 rpm records, including the Serenade to Music itself, and one track featuring each of the sixteen named singers, as well as one singer (Keith Falkner) who would have been among their number had he not been abroad at the time.")
Not at the center of our often repertoire-centered approach but possibly, I think, of some real interest.
#7
I'm guessing that the series on Toccata Classics will get to this work (the first volume, released recently, contains his sonata in D minor of 1901), but until it does, I thought I'd link the digitized manuscript, at U. Frankfurt, of his sonata in G major (dedicated to Jelly d'Aranyi, and it's among his last works, as he finished revising it in April '16 and died at the Somme in November...) that I just noticed.
#8
and most recently came up in the Franke thread, so since I was asked to post it separately, one site that contains a list or (in this case) database form for searching Furtwängler's concert performances is Furtwangler.fr - list of concerts.
#9
Composers & Music / Albert Dietrich symphonies
Friday 05 January 2024, 14:12
I was reminded of the older "Composers who wrote just one symphony" thread by something I noticed when searching dorkily through the Gewandhaus orchester archives and noticing that Albert Dietrich's 1870-published symphony was supposed to have been performed as early as 14 December 1854 under Rietz. Was that the same D minor symphony (if maybe in an earlier revision) as the one that exists today, the now-lost C major symphony, or whoknows?... The description in NZM on page 283 (22 December 1854 issue) isn't very helpful, though presumably the Gewandhaus archives have other sources in determining what work was played - sometimes. Then again, sometimes mistaken assumptions are made. I wonder what by Dietrich was played in 1854?
#10
While there may not have been many, there were apparently some. Otto Lohse conducted the 3rd symphony at the Gewandhaus in January 1922, for example (in a concert with Lalo's symphonie espagnole and possibly the world premiere of Graener's Variations on a Russian Folksong, Op.55). Does anyone know anything about him, about the reception the symphony received at the time, etc.?
#11
An interesting-seeming new CD out January 19th from Toccata Classics containing original works and arrangements (e.g. of a Boëly string quartet and Holmès' Pologne) is described here at Toccata and also, here at Presto.
#12
Composers & Music / Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs (1965-2023)
Saturday 25 November 2023, 20:59
Dedicated and searching musicologist Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs died on November 21st.
#13
Not that unknown but worth hearing new performances. BBC Radio 3 in Concert, a few days ago.
#14
also hot off the Toccata pipeline (available streaming, at least, only as of last week) - a second volume of organ music by Friedrich Lux (1820-95). (All I've heard by him so far is one of his string quartets, but I'm adding this to my streaming bookmarks.)
#15
Recent Broadcast by SWR2. (They're scheduled to perform three quartet works where I am this evening...)
#16
Recordings & Broadcasts / Paderewski: Manru
Friday 06 October 2023, 13:34
cpo has announced for release on November first a recording (possibly the live performance announced in this forum as a broadcast back in March 2022) of Ignace Paderewski's opera Manru (1901), sung in German and in its original version. May be worth a listen...
#17
Recordings & Broadcasts / Vocal music by Karl Mikuli
Saturday 26 August 2023, 13:35
This disc from Dux, announced for November 3* and containing several song cycles and a baritone and string quartet cantata by Carl Mikuli (all seem to be world premiere recordings; by the way the track listing at Presto appears to be a little misleading, separating out and listing Matthisson and Uhland as composers rather than text authors for two of the works of Op.16, as though op.16 were a collaborative effort by three composers- which I don't think it is),  -- looks interesting, even if, at 45 minutes, a mite brief.

Karol Mikuli (1819-97) was a Chopin pupil, born in what is now Ukraine (birth surname Bsdikian, and of Armenian family, I gather), whose compositions, especially his vocal music, are not very well-known - hopefully this recording is well-enough performed and recorded to give an opportunity to allow one to make some judgments.

*Available to stream through Presto right now, apparently. (I wonder if Amazon Music will have it soon? I'll check :) )
**I realize the promotional material saying "not inferior to Schubert ..." will annoy. So far as I know, Mikuli not having written that, all I can say is that it's still refreshing to have such a call-back to the often equally ridiculous advertising copy of the 19th century, and I'll leave it at that.
#18
Composers & Music / Boughton and Graener
Wednesday 02 August 2023, 14:18
I am beginning to read Hurd's "Rutland Boughton and the Glastonbury festivals". The first chapter covers his first 21 years, but already contains much of interest- for interest, the information that Boughton and Paul Graener met (1898?) at "Barth's" agency and, it's implied, formed a long friendship. (p.11.) Anyone know about this?
#19
The new Da Capo recording of August Enna's (2nd, but only existing) symphony and violin concerto are reviewed and released in the latest Records International (with the odd claim that each work is a premiere recording. The 2nd symphony was on cpo and the violin concerto was on Danacord, as I recall.)
#20
This new recording conducted by Willens contains the piano concerto, two concert overtures, and the Faust-Overture by Emilie Mayer (release date apparently 21 July).