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I know this isn't the kind of thing usually posted here, but I got a lot out of reading this forum in the past year and I wanted to give something back. Most of the pieces I performed on this recital I first learned about here! As far as I know, mine is the only complete recording of the Laurischkus that exists, and I have only heard the Holbrooke Mezzotint recorded by violin. I really hope you all enjoy them!

https://soundcloud.com/peter-bauer-29/sets/first-masters-recital

-Peter

Recently discovered that this guy Verhey wrote a clarinet concerto dedicated to Richard Muhlfeld. Select movements seem to be played fairly often at the student level and for competitions, but there is no commercial recording. The Free Library of Philadelphia seems to have the music, I'll see if I can get my hands on it. Found a pretty good recording of the first movement here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV0sMkMCZs4, it seems very charming. There are some videos of the second movement, but to me they all seem almost twice too fast.

Seems like the only thing of his to be recorded is the flute concerto. Anyone have any experience with his music? It would be cool to see a list of works, though IMSLP has a handful, including another piece for clarinet. He has an article on the Dutch Wikipedia but it's pretty spare, http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoor_Verhey.

Hey everyone, I have two Masters recitals coming up this year and I'm hoping to program some things that are out of the ordinary. I have a few ideas already but I thought I'd ask, what are your favorite unsung works for clarinet and piano? My most recent discovery is a Sonata by Giacomo Setaccioli that I think is really fantastic. I've been trying to get my hands on the music for sonatas by Leo Sowerby (unrecorded as far as I know) and Adolf Busch (recorded, but hard to get) as well.

Anyway, let me know your favorites!

So as a clarinetist Carl Frühling's clarinet trio Op. 40 has been somewhat on my radar for the last few years, but when  actually went looking for information on him I didn't find much. I did however find a really interesting article about how the cellist Steven Isserlis pretty much single-handedly picked him out of obscurity. Isserlis seems like the kind of person who would enjoy posting here!

http://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,3605,377775,00.html

Several things about his article really struck me.

I then took the trio to a chamber music festival in Finland, and tried it through there, with a (bad) musician who played it so miserably it sounded boring, and then refused to perform it because it was boring. (It is alarming how often wonderful lesser-known works are written off for that reason.)

As a conservatory study I have to agree that I've met a lot of players who are pretty closed-minded. It takes a true musician to recognize the potential in piece they've never heard before.

Another of the long-suffering unfortunates who had to endure my whining was the soprano Felicity Lott, who inadvertently stumbled across a major reason for his neglect. On a visit to Vienna she dutifully enquired whether they had any information at the Austrian radio station where she had been recording. They pulled out a dusty old file - and to everybody's embarrassment, discovered a large "J" scrawled over it. So now we knew that Frühling was Jewish and as such had been neglected in the years immediately after his death.

Having been studying some other Jewish composers recently, notably Robert Kahn, I'm a little surprised that the seemingly overwhelming Nazi influence on the artistic community is something that isn't acknowledged and talked about more today. I haven't seen that new George Clooney movie Monuments Men, but it seems to be about this very subject.

I'm listening to his Piano Quintet Op. 30 right now, which I found here on this site, and I think it's great! If you haven't heard the clarinet trio, it really is fantastic as well. Anyway his wikipedia article lists a bunch of other works, but apparently they are all lost or missing. I wonder if they'll ever turn up?

Hi everyone! I'm trying to find some information about a Lithuanian-German Composer named Max Laurischkus (Maksas Lauriškus) (1876-1929). I was searching for clarinet music on IMSLP when I came across a piece he wrote which I think is really interesting. There are two other pieces as well, a piano trio and a woodwind quintet. Aside from a small Lithuanian wikipedia article I can't seem to find any info on him at all! I figured someone on this board might know something about him!

This is a really interesting forum and I've already had a lot fun browsing old threads!