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#1
Composers & Music / Re: Albert Dietrich symphonies
Saturday 06 January 2024, 06:45
Quote from: Alan Howe on Friday 05 January 2024, 16:27Just to recap, this is the reference Eric found back in 2012 to a library record in Krakow, Poland:
https://opac.rism.info/rism/Record/rism300257497?documentid=300257497


Checking this entry in RISM, I have some doubts regarding the attribution of this symphony to Albert Dietrich. The title mentions "Con Fundamento Basso" which seems unlikely for a symphony written around 1850, unless Albert Dietrich was trying to compose some pastiche in the baroque/classical style...
#2
Quote from: eschiss1 on Monday 01 January 2024, 00:00page of an abortive Kickstarter-ish project to record Kauffmann's 2 piano trios

There are some excerpts intertwined with an interview (in German only) of the Piano Trio op. 9 on YouTube, featuring the same performers:

#3
Composers & Music / Re: 2023 Unsung Concerts
Sunday 24 September 2023, 14:14
Pianist Simon Callaghan announced a few days ago that the London Piano Quartet will be performing the two piano quartets by Ernest Walker (and other works by Bridge and Schumann), on October 29, at the Balliol College Music Society. I certainly wish I could be there to hear that performance!
#4
Question for Mr Purton : you said in a post on this forum in December 2021  that a String Sextet and the Septet were being recorded. I was expecting to see these on Volume 2. So I guess we should expect a Volume 3, should we? Or were they discarded?

Thanks!
#5
Composers & Music / Re: Georges Pfeiffer
Tuesday 14 February 2023, 04:05
Quote from: eschiss1 on Tuesday 14 February 2023, 03:21On recording I only find a piano left hand transcription by him of the Miserere from Verdi's Il Trovatore (Act IV scene 12) from a 2017 CD.

Actually, his Piano Trio in D minor, op. 130, is available on CD:

https://www.amazon.com/Promenades-Sentimentales-Ernest-Chausson/dp/B008LC8UJM/ref=mp_s_a_1_12?crid=3B6W5YU96NVQB&keywords=pfeiffer+trio&qid=1676347372&sprefix=pfeiffer+trio%2Caps%2C86&sr=8-12
#6
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Bru Zane future plans
Friday 09 December 2022, 14:36
Quote from: BerlinExpat on Thursday 17 November 2022, 15:07HOLMES's La Montagne Noire in Dortmund seems to have disappeared. Perhaps it was so dark they couldn't find it.


According to the newsletter sent earlier today by Palazzetto Bru Zane, one of their teams is still working on editing a score for Holmes's La Montagne Noire. Nothing about a coming performance, though.

In the same newsletter, they let us know that another team recently found scores by Félicien David and Cécile Chaminade that were previously considered to be lost. No details about which music it is (they certainly will say more eventually), but an exciting news, still!
#7
Quote from: eschiss1 on Sunday 25 September 2022, 23:33I think Gallica has it, yea. They have the volume of JdM it appears in. Then one downloads. Takes some searching.

Thanks Eric! I remember seeing that specific journal on Gallica some times ago, but I believe the sheet music wasn't scanned yet. I'm glad it's there after all!
#8
Quote from: giles.enders on Sunday 25 September 2022, 14:01Chamber

Duettino for  oboe and cello  pub.by Journal de Musique


I've been looking for that one for a while. No luck so far among the digital libraries I've explored. Anyone luckier?

#9
Composers & Music / Re: Carita von Horst (1864-1935)
Thursday 07 July 2022, 13:28
I suppose this article might be a little romanticized, but that's quite a life she lived!

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26349973/american-woman-by-misreading-stars/
#10
In a short article published in The Musical Standard in November 1906, composer and editor Ernest Austin (1874-1947) assesses the state of British chamber music produced by his contemporaries. Describing a unique paradox, he emphasizes, with some sarcasm : "Any nation but the English would be proud of them [the new generation of British composers], but, luckless fellows, they were born here".

One can read Austin's article under the section Fragment of the Ravel right here :

https://www.proquest.com/openview/6634a3ae54dbeac6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2563

At the end of this article, Austin offers a list of the most worthy British chamber works that should be, in his view, among the standard repertoire of concert givers. In his opinion, they are "works of absolute individuality" :

- Piano Quintet in A major, by Ernest Walker
- String Quartet in A minor, by John B. McEwen
- Piano Sextet "In Memoriam", by  Joseph Holbrooke
- Piano Quartet in G minor, Richard H. Walthew
- Piano Quartet in E minor, by Cyril Scott
- String Quartet in one movement, by H. Balfour Gardiner

Luckily enough, some of these works have been recorded so far : McEwen's String Quartet No. 2, (available on Chandos), Scott's Piano Quartet Op. 16 (available on Dutton and on Meridian) and Balfour Gardiner's String Quartet (available on Dutton Epoch).

With the benefit of hindsight, we know that some of these composers would develop a singular voice later in their career. I suppose one could argue that none of the above works is groundbreaking, but those I was lucky enough to hear still showcase good craftsmanship and elements of transitional style that were undoubtedly rising much interest among concert-goers in 1906, namely one year after the first Cobbett Competition.
#11
I stumbled a few years ago on that collection of nineteenth century pieces for oboe by James Brown. Volume three includes a "Mélodie" (Andantino in E major) by César Franck. An excerpt can be seen here :

https://www.trevcomusic.com/products/nva-393-brown-19th-c-collection-vol-3-ob-pn

I'm trying to find out where it comes from. Is it a transcription of a vocal mélodie or organ/piano piece? If anyone could help be to solve this small mystery, I'd be very happy!

Thanks!
#12
Composers & Music / Re: Marian Arkwright 1863-1922
Thursday 13 January 2022, 04:25
Quote from: eschiss1 on Thursday 13 January 2022, 02:49
I think you meant middle name, M. Ursula, not first name, wrong in M. N. Arkwright...

That's right, Eric! French being my first language, you will have to forgive me for this little mistake! Thanks for the correction!
#13
Composers & Music / Re: Marian Arkwright 1863-1922
Wednesday 12 January 2022, 03:58
Hello Alison! To the best of my knowledge, Marian Arkwright's music remains very elusive. Her chamber music for wind instruments was performed a number of times at John Parr's concerts in Sheffield, during the first half of the 20th century (Parr was a bassoonist and was eager to promote British music by his contemporaries).

In the last few years, I've been in touch with some institutions (including Durham University, where she studied) and some very knowledgeable musicians, among others Michael Bryant and Chris Nex. Both did extensive researches on Parr's life. Unfortunately, regarding the sheet music performed by Part and his colleagues, much seems to be lost. Arkwright's music is among this missing music. I really hope her estate will be located eventually...

On another note, I have been able to locate a picture of Marian Arkwright published in a British newspaper, The Gentlewoman, on March 1906. I believe it is one of the very few pictures of Arkwright known at the moment.

#14
Composers & Music / Re: Zeitungsportal
Tuesday 02 November 2021, 02:37
Thanks Ilya! Great news!
#15
Composers & Music / Re: Theodor H. H. Verhey (1848-1929)
Thursday 26 August 2021, 03:58
Quote from: Alan Howe on Wednesday 25 August 2021, 22:10
Here's the CD that features Verhey's Quintet:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8668767--origins

It's worth saying that the guys from Ensemble 4.1 are doing an amazing job regarding music by unsung composers. Beside Verhey's Quintet, they've offered live performances of works by such composers as Herzogenberg, N.H Rice, Arne Oldberg, an early Quintet for piano and winds by (the not unsung, obviously) Holst, and more.

One last thing: Verhey's Quintet Op. 20, if not a masterpiece, was still crowned as one of the winning works of the 1882 Nederlandsche Toonkunstenaars-Vereeniging competition.