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Messages - Gareth Vaughan

#1
Don't get me started.
#2
New to me too. Very attractive music from the available soundbites.
#3
No. I was referring to Julius Lange whom hitherto I have known only as a pianist and composer of solo piano music. I'm not confusing him with Gustav.
#4
You are quite right, Martin. That's a major error. Someone needs to point this out to Hyperion.
#5
I must just add my thanks, Martin, for your rendition of this lovely piano concerto. It is quite a find IMHO. I have enjoyed discovering it very much indeed. I never knew Lange had composed one. I too, like semloh, was reminded of Litolff in the finale - thoroughly delightful.
#6
I don't think so - at least, I certainly hope not. It is worth remembering that the Reinecke disks were scheduled for recording a while before Hyperion sold out to Universal. I will try to contact Simon Perry soon by telephone (if I can) and have a chat with him.
Simon Callaghan too might be able to tell me if he has been contracted to record any more for the RPC series.
#7
Composers & Music / Re: Johanna Senfter: Symphonies
Friday 08 March 2024, 20:03
May I heartily echo Alan's thanks. I shall be very interested to hear these works unfragmented.
#8
I think that is basically right, Eric, but they have in the past lent scores to me. That was probably over 15 years ago, though, and I dealt directly with Kyle Smith then, sometimes by telephone. They might be stricter in their policies now, but I hope not. Anyway, it would do no harm to ask.
#9
What a lovely programme.
#10
I forgot to add: Encore21 is a UK catalogue listing sets of choral and orchestral parts available from various libraries https://iaml-uk-irl.org/encore21/ which I have occasionally found useful.
Not to mention The Library of Congress and the many other splendid libraries in the U.S.A., most of whose catalogues are available online and whose librarians I have found are usually very helpful.
Many printed scores held by libraries can also be borrowed via inter-library loan, even in some cases from abroad.

Basically, you just have to do your research. There are a number of experienced researchers on this forum who will be happy to point you in the right direction but not, I hasten to advise, do all the work for you - but I am sure you don't expect that anyway (though I can think of one person, no longer a member of this forum, who seemed to expect precisely that!).
Finally, may I strongly recommend you explore the piano concertos of Hungarian composer Jakob Gyula Major. There are two, plus 3 "Fantasies" for piano and orchestra. The first, the Concerto Symphonique, Op. 12, was published and Fleisher has score and parts (IMSLP also has the full score); MS scores of the 2nd concerto and the 3 Fantasies are in the Hungarian State Library and, courtesy of that national library, I have digital images of the 2-piano score in my own collection. I think you will find his music very attractive.
Good luck with your work.
#11
I think Hyperion may well do the other concertos - given time. I certainly hope so. I gave them the same list of sources as I gave you.
No, there is no master list that I know of. What I have is the result of my own research conducted over many years. However, the internet makes it much easier to locate scores than it used to be. WorldCat is a basic library research tool; ONB (Austrian National Library) https://www.onb.ac.at/en/ - together with the catalogues of other large national libraries (France, Italy, etc. including, of course, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and many German University libraries: Frankfurt has the Ferdinand Hiller nachlass, for example, and Hamburg has that of Ferdinand Thieriot); a number of the Scandinavian countries have their own national Music Centres who used to be (and maybe still are) very helpful; for orchestral parts the Fleisher Collection at The Free Library of Philadelphia https://catalog.freelibrary.org/ should be your first port of call; a lot of the catalogue entries for the music holdings of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, which are substantial, are not listed online, except via the online images of the old card catalogue (useful, of course, but a bit of pain to trawl through or navigate); in the UK the JISC Library Hub https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/ gives access to details of materials held in many UK national, academic and specialist libraries, but the Westminster Music Library (now part of the Westminster Reference Library), which has a substantial collection of music scores and parts (including a large collection of Emanuel Moor mss), is not part of it and must be accessed separately here.
#12
Fleisher should lend you the score of Op. 76 for very few bucks - maybe only the cost of postage.
I think Newberry may have the solo piano part of Op. 75 as well as the orchestral parts. Don't know what they would charge to digitise them for you.
#13
You may well be right, Ilja. Although that doesn't explain why they don't simply invite customers to order the CD as soon as it is advertised on the Amazon website, telling purchasers it will be delivered when the physical item becomes available (as they not infrequently do with products from other labels) - they wouldn't be holding much stock then.

But all this is by the by...
#14
QuoteOf course as usual Amazon doesn't seem to want to have pages for CPO CDs any more for some reason

They do have pages for CPO CDs, but I've noticed that for new releases Amazon seems to offer the downloads first and only list the physical product some weeks (or even months) later. I agree - it's an odd practice.
#15
Schmitt wrote 3 Piano Concertos and 2 works he called concertinos:-

Piano concerto No.1 Op.14 (orchestral parts only, Library of Congress; solo piano part only, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)
Piano concerto No.2 Op.34 (parts, Goethe Institute, Frankfurt – unclear whether includes solo piano part, or orchestral parts only)
Piano concerto No.3 Op.60 (solo piano part & orchestral parts, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; also at IMSLP)
Piano concertino 'Le Retour a Francfort'  Op.75 [solo piano part only (pub. Offenbach), British Library & Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; orchestral parts, Newberry Library, Chicago – lacking timpani part]
Piano concertino (or concerto) in E flat Op.76 (score and parts, Fleisher)

The first 2 are the ones recorded by Hyperion.