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Can anybody get a hold of the scores of either or both concertos, please?  I'm particularly interested in seeing if there's any kind of tempo indication for the 2nd movement scherzo of the 1st Concerto.

I've encountered his 2 piano concertos on YouTube, and both appear to be in a Romantic/post-Romantic idiom, at a time in which many of his fellow Norwegians were going down the avant-garde path.  He studied in Berlin, and graduated in 1914.  He is noteworthy inasmuch as he appears to have composed the only cello concerto in a Romantic style by a Norwegian besides Johan Svendsen's; a work I would very much like to be exhumed and recorded.

In looking for some suitable music to post on my FB page for Halloween, I came across the Amber Witch Overture (1861) by the Irish-born vagabond composer William Vincent Wallace.  Besides his operatic output, he also composed quite a bit of virtuosic piano music and, I also see a violin concerto (Souvenir de New York) and a concertino for same.  Is there any chance either of those two scores (apparently the only known orchestral music by him known to Wikipedia) are still extant?

Can anyone get the movements of this work?

Does anyone know what the key of this work is?  I can't find this information anywhere.

I have been trying to find the movement tempi for this work for ages.  I have already determined that the key is G minor, but I haven't been able to turn up anything on the divisions of the piece.  It's still on IMSLP's wishlist.  Anybody able to help?

A perusal of the plot synopsis indicates that it was lifted from the Circe episode in Homer's Odyssey!

Can anybody give me a tempo for the 2nd movement Scherzo?  Marco Polo didn't include the information when they recorded this piece 17 years ago.

Semi.Serio, thanks for uploading this!  I used to own the old Genesis LP with the Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra conducted by Remoortel of the Symphony in F, this, and the overtures to Rimini and Shrew.  Now I can't even find the CD version of that available anywhere!  Bit just what exactly is the orchestra that Albert conducts?  I can find nothing that corresponds to "SWF RFO".  Is it the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg?  Because when I look up SWF Rundfunkorchester, that's what I get as its current name.  It used to be the Rundfunkorchester Des Südwestfunks, or variations thereof.

I have received the following from David Kent Watson.  "For those of you who have been concerned about the disappearance of the Cameo Classics website: I will be writing officially about the site etc soon, but for your info (and you are free to put it on the forums) I have signed a 'Production and Distribution Partnership' Agreement with Nimbus Wyastone Ltd., whereby all Cameo Classics CDs will be available worldwide through all retail outlets served by Nimbus, and I guess that means just about all of them.  This is a better deal for
our existing customers, saving the previous onerous but unavoidable P&P charges.

Cameo Classics joins Lyrita Recorded Edition and Hallé labels in this respect
as partner labels to Nimbus.

That is why the website has been closed permanently."

Cameo Classics is also supplying a three-hour plus concert section for British Music Radio (on-line)

I just wanted to let you know that three of the four cello concertos of the Belgian cellist/composer Adrien-François Servais are available.  The first two (the second is also known as Morceau de Concert) are available on a Fuga Libera CD which can be purchased or downloaded here.  I have compiled the 3 movements of the 4th, Op. Posthumous onto a YT playlist here.  The Op. 5 and Op. Posth. concertos are both in the truncated concerto form typical of 19th-Century virtuoso concertos (no development or reprise in the first movement; the cadential tutti segues right into the slow movement), the Morceau de Concert is in a single movement.  There is also a Concert Militaire, Op. 18 as yet unrecorded.  My thanks to M. Peter Francois of the Servais Society for his invaluable assistance in providing the movement titles for the playlist. 

Servais' youngest son, Joseph was the cellist for whom Vieuxtemps composed his two late cello concertos.  Poor Joseph died at the age of 34 in 1885.

The Sinfoniëtta in C is available on YT.  I compiled the 4 separate movements on one playlist here:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZhhAQZ-N-UZjRldFnVwCtR_WfIQ8hhRa

Are there tempo indications for the 3rd movement anywhere?

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, since the recording isn't exactly in the pipeline yet, but...I received a PM here (and an email) that reads as follows:

Hi Jim,

My name is Michael Samis, and I just joined the Unsung Composers forum. I'm a cellist based in Nashville and a member of the Nashville Symphony. I'm going to be releasing my first solo album on the Delos label early in 2014, which is centered around the long-forgotten and beautiful cello concerto of Carl Reinecke.

You should know that a post of yours from 2009 on this forum led me to discover this piece about a year ago. The post was in the "Unsung Romantic Cello Concertos" thread, where you said: "Reinecke is long overdue for a decent recording with a top-notch soloist and orchestra. Does anybody know if Hyperion or cpo have it somewhere in the pipeline?"

Thank you for that! I'm currently in the process of a Kickstarter campaign for the production of this recording. If you play the video at the top of my page, you can hear clips of me performing the piece with the emerging Gateway Chamber Orchestra a few weeks ago on Feb. 13, which could have been the U.S. premiere. (Can't find evidence to the contrary)

My Kickstarter campaign is here: http://kck.st/Xu5Fws

I'm writing to you because I am very inexperienced at writing in forums and blogs on the internet, and I'm wondering if you might be able to start a thread about my project since you are a very active user. Or do you think I should start one myself? I'd really like to share my project effectively with the people in this forum, whom I'm guessing will be very interested.

My project has been receiving some great reviews and attention.
There is a review by a local paper where I performed it on Feb. 11 performance here: http://ow.ly/ilWrO
And a review of a recital I gave yesterday with other music from my CD here: http://ow.ly/ilWyx

I just thought I would start by talking to you since your post started this whole thing! I'm in love with this piece and I totally believe it should be in the repertoire. If you don't mind, please advise me as to the best way to share this on the forum. Also if you have other connections and friends, please share my link and help me get the word out.

Thank you again for what your post has done for my career!
All best, Michael

email: michael@michaelsamis.com

website: www.michaelsamis.com


Let's all extend him a warm welcome and I hope to see him become an active participant in our discussion.  I, for one, will do my part to support him in his endeavor! 

Many thanks for the DL of the Festive Overture, Marek, but there seem to be many apparent signal drops.  They don't really stop the music, but they can be quite distracting.  Is there something in my iTunes that can smooth them over, or is there a program I can obtain that can process them out?

I don't know if it's possible to go into the Archive section and fix something, but George Frederick Bristow's Arcadian Symphony (#4) is plainly in E minor, not D minor, like the 2nd.  Hearing them back to back it's quite evident.  That is one DL, BTW, that would be quite eligible for removal from the Archives and transplantation into the current downloads, IMHO.

Does anybody have any recordings of the Triumphal Overture and/or the Concert Overture Op. 65 by Anton Rubinstein that aren't commercially available they would be willing to share?

We have an ally.  I can't say precisely who, or maybe I can, but I won't until I'm certain.  She is the conductor of a major U.S. city's orchestra and she's always on the lookout for neglected composers.  I'm going to start burning and sending CDs and emailing her any scores to accompany them that I can find, as well as performer recommendations.  This could be the start of something good. 

I'm looking over the score right now from IMSLP.  Apparently the movement listing is a little different from the download:

1. Allegro ma non troppo
2. Reverie et Scherzo: Andante - Presto
3. Allegro

There seem to be several episodes in different tempi in each movement.  The key of the work is A minor. 

Thanks, Dave.  I've wanted this work for years.

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I just stumbled across the overture to the opera Cherevichki (The Slippers), a four act (I presume comic) opera, Op. 14.  Ab-so-lute-ly delightful overture, and totally unknown to me.  Anybody know anything about the rest of the opera?