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Apparently he only composed 4 large-scale works, a suite, 2 symphonies and a violin concerto.  I just encountered the 1st "Autumn" Symphony (1879) and was bowled over.  Is there a non-commercial recording of the violin concerto anywhere? 

I downloaded Stillman-Kelley's Piano Quintet today and encountered a problem I haven't seen before.  The file format is MP4, which plays just fine on my iTunes.  However I can't split it or convert it.  My file splitter doesn't even see it, nor does my converter program.  In order to split it I need to convert it to an MP3, and I can't do that because the converter program's wizard doesn't even recognize it in the desktop.  What to do?

Well, here it is, folks: more Vieuxtemps.  This time it's the first two concertos with Chloe Hanslip: http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA67878&vw=dc.  Also included is the Greeting to America, Op. 56.  Is that the same as the Souvenir d'Amerique, AKA Yankee Doodle Variations?

I have a bit of a problem with this and I'm not sure where it originates.  When I download a video from YouTube and convert it to an MP3, several of my files end up with an odd distortion, even if the original flv on YouTube has perfect sound.  I'm not sure whether it's an artifact of the copying process or if it occurs in the conversion and I'd like to know if anybody else has experience with this.  In general, the sound of the wind instruments is unaffected, at least not noticeably, but the strings sometimes sound like someone smoked them through a bong.  There's a kind of bubbly, wobbly, flattened sound that's more noticeable at some times than others.  I can adjust to it, but I was wondering if there's some kind of setting in the download or conversion process in this program that I can use to prevent it.

With a right diagonal through the O in Borresen.  Just heard his delightful Violin Concerto in G Major, Op. 11 on YouTube.  Is there anything of his unavailable commercially that someone is willing to download in the Danish Composers file?  I can't name a work, so I thought I'd go fishing here. 

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I'm sorry guys and gals, but Yitzhak Perlman shared this on my Facebook, and I had to share it with the rest of you.  Comments welcome, but unnecessary:

It is what I think it is.

I just wanted to offer my opinion that, due to the massive influx of downloads, this forum has, perhaps unwittingly, become a major archive of the world's art music, and not just in a Romantic style.

Not unrecorded, certainly, but certainly unsung enough to merit attention when performed by a major, Hubay's 3rd VC will be performed by Daniel Stabrawa and the Berlin Philharmonic today, in about 3 hours.  Ivan Fischer will be on the podium.  Here's the link: www.digitalconcerthall.com/concert/2489?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DCH-Newsletter+fr+den+03122011&utm_content=DCH-Newsletter+fr+den+03122011+CID_b84820cf50a3ecdcc93fbd3fb11a60e5&utm_source=Email+Newsletter&utm_term=Zum+Konzert  Dohnanyi's Symphonic Minutes will also be performed.  I don't know if they've been recorded or not, but if not, maybe one of us can get on this.  Sorry for the short notice.

Maybe this has been covered elsewhere, but here goes:

Some of the downloads (particularly of radio broadcasts) are all run together.  Is there any way to divide them into individual files for the separate movements?

Said with tongue firmly in cheek, I presume! 

[Hiller Piano Quartet]

Hiller Piano Quartet

http://www.mediafire.com/?1p1272dx8bjyq

Here's the quartet as broadcast on Sunday on WDR3.  I'm sorry I don't comprehend spoken German so please, will someone else fill in the details which are at the end of the performance....It's a long piece, about 37 minutes.

And, yes, it DOES start that abruptly....

Jerry

It's pretty straightforward, even for someone with a tyro's grasp of German.  More or less: "Oliver Triendl on piano with members of the Minguet Quartet in a performance produced by" (I think) some chamber music society (maybe Alan can fill us in here) "in the Grand Piano Quartet, Op. 133, by Ferdinand Hiller."

Well, I have been mightily impressed by both the Hiller chamber works I've downloaded, in fine performances by Oliver Treindl and the Minguet Quartet.  I've started this thread to discuss the works in question and the possibility of getting them on CD.  I'd also like to see a thread on Triendl - his name has popped up a lot around here.  Is he the Ponti of our times?

KUSC just played the Serenade for Strings, Op. 7 by this unsung Austrian composer.  How much else of his music has been recorded?  It was quite striking.

I was wondering if anyone knows or can tell me how and where to find the movement headings for the following two works:

Ewald Straesser
Piano Concerto in E minor

Anton Urspruch
Piano Concerto in E-flat Major

Well, I took the plunge.  Having come upon some financial resources, I finally completed my Reinecke symphony collection with the Chandos release of the 'Haakon Jarl' and 3rd Symphonies.  I already had the 1st on Naxos.  I've never heard even a smidgeon of either work, so this will be a new listening experience for me.  I remember several of you are mightily impressed with these works, particularly the 2nd.  To that end, I started this topic for discussion, and to have a place to air my opinions when the CD arrives.

P.S.  I got it from Presto.  CD Universe, apparently, had none in stock.  Hmmmmmmm...

Having come upon some money, I was finally able to pick up that cpo CD of the 3rd and 4th Cello Concertos of Karl Davydov.  My current project is to listen (in my car) to all 4 in order.  I have some problems with the balance on my old Olympia recording of the first 2 - Tarasova gets drowned out a bit too often, particularly at cadences, and the venue used was kind of echoey (is that a word?)  Cavernous, then.  I'd like to discuss these fine works.  Anybody game?

Since there don't seem to be any new recordings of them coming out soon, I think this is the appropriate wing of the forum to discuss them.  All 4 have been recorded, plus the early Concertino, Op. 33.  As Eric has mentioned, the final work is extremely compact, and I find its string-heavy orchestration a bit lackadaisical, certainly less deft than that of the roughly contemporary flute concerto.  The first PC, as has been pointed out, has been recorded no less than 3 times to my knowledge (Robbins, Ponti, Hellwig).  The second has two recordings (Robbins, Hellwig), and Hellwig alone has recorded the other two full-scale concertos on a box set of all 4 from cpo.  There are one or two recordings of the Concertino (or is it Konzertstück?), I forget exactly how many.  I wanted to pick one up, but now I can't remember the label.  Some on this forum have previously expressed a dislike for these works, but to me they exemplify the best of high Romanticism, especially the criminally neglected 3rd, which I consider the best of the lot, as does Alan.  Feedback, anyone?

I was wondering if anyone had heard of this work, or knew of this CD?  I was very well aware that Gioacchino Rossini had composed several concertante works, but I thought that they were pretty much all variations for solo winds and orchestra.  However, I seem to have been mistaken.  Apparently there is at least one full-fledged concerto.  I found it here.  I'd like to know if this is a reconstruction, a spurious work, or an actual rediscovery of a hitherto unknown concerto.  It postdates his final opera by some 15-16 years, which places it well among the "Sins of his Old Age".  Judging by the timings of the movements it appears to be a fairly substantial work, just a shade over 35 minutes long.  The snippet of the first movement from the audio sample indicates that it is scored for a rather large orchestra, including trumpets and timpani.

Seek and ye shall find: www.postgazette.com/pg/04331/416868-42.stm

For those interested in the transition between High Classical and Early Romantic periods here are some works that ought to appeal to your fancy: www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/July10/Kraft_CR0493.htm

KUSC just played the Burgmuller 2nd Symphony (sans reconstructed finale).  I now see why he is so highly thought of.  I may pick up that disc of his two symphonies.  I was wondering if there is one of his Op. 1 Piano Concerto in F# minor.

P.S. Jim Svejda is going to be doing an entire program of Karlowicz at 9 P.M. PDT tonight.  It's a repeat of last Sunday's show.  Bunch of tone poems and the VC.