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The concerto aria "Der Schwur am Grabe der Mutter" (The oath at the grave of the mother[?]), sung by Andreas Mattersberger, Orchester der Akademie St. Blasius, Karlheinz Siessl, first performance in our time, is in full lenghts (07:02 min)

with pleasure! I hope the CD will come out earlier than autumn 2013! It is to be feared that there will be no radio broadcast before. 

I also hope, the Double-CD with (nearly) Complete Piano Lieder will be available before Christmas this year.

I have heard the performance of Rufinatscha's Symphony No. 3 on October 25.: It was an overwhelming experience! The development of the sonata form of the 1. movement is thrilling.  The trio-part oft the 3. movement is a class of its own. The finale sounded particularly sensational, indeed: like a earworm. (It reminds me on the Scherzo of Schumann's Symphony D Minor, 1841) Only the 2. movement, maybe, is a little bit light with a too static metre and too trivial melody?

I do not agree with Mr Siessl, that this is Rufinatscha's most important work (I do believe his most important works are his Piano Lieder) – but I totally agree that this C Minor Symphony is his best Symphony! I believe it is also - and even more - due to Mr Michael F.P. Huber's mastership of orchestration, sense of tension and resolution in dynamics, and originality in varied form of flow in music. A masterpiece!

Yesterday in Austria there was a broadcasting with one hour or music by Rufinatscha (Lieder, Symphony No. 6 (under Seipenbusch) and chamber music). A concerto aria from the concerto last weak by the St Blasius Academy Orchestra under Karlheinz Siess for the very first time is included.  There is a livestream to hear here one week long:  http://oe1.orf.at/programm/321791

(Some mistakes happened during the broadcasting and the information is confused and incomplete.  )

[Symphony in c-Moll & 3 Concerto Arias (Der Schwur am Grabe der Mutter,Die Erwartung, Ingebors Klage)]

 I have heard:

The "new" C minor Symphony by Rufinatscha is NOT identically with the piece and the three-movement torso of Symphony No.4 in C minor which we only have in piano four-hands form: It is a completely different piece. It is uncertain what period it dates from, probably later than the 6th or before? It was found not in the Library of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna – but in the Library of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum.

There is a reconstruction (re-composing) of the wind-parts by Michael FP Huber.
There will be two performances this year:

Symphony in c-Moll &  3 Concerto Arias (Der Schwur am Grabe der Mutter,
Die Erwartung, Ingebors Klage)

Sunday  24. November 2012, 20 h
Mals, Aula Magna Oberschulzentrum, Italy

Saturday, 25. November 2012, 17 h
Innsbruck, Kaiser-Leopold-Saal der Theologischen Fakultät

Belinda Loukota (Soprano), Andreas Mattersberger (Bassbariton)
Orchestera of the Akademy St. Blasius
Karlheinz Siessl

www.tiroler-landesmuseum.at/userupload/9468_TLM_Folder_rufinatscha.pdf

Our Innsbruck colleagues have confirmed that the Symphony in C minor by Rufinatscha reconstructed by Michael F. P. Huber will be recorded when it is given its first performance in November this year.

And not only the Symphony in C minor but also the complete "Lieder": The recording date will be around 3. & 4. Mai 2012, on the occasion of two concertos by the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum: Maria Erlacher (soprano), Andreas Lebeda (baritone) and Annette Seiler (piano) - the same instrument as by the Rufinatsch PC by Michael Schöch.

(by the way: Schöch was first price winner of the famous ARD International Music Competition 2011 (not piano but in organ) - the first and only first price since 30 years!)

[The Turkish Five]

Whats about composers of western classical music in Turkey?

The Turkish Five
Ulvi Cemal Erkin
Cemal Reşid Rey
Ferid Alnar
Ahmet Adnan Saygun
Necil Kâzım Akses

Fazil Say

I am looking for more names! 

sorry, wrong threat

[24. November 2012]

New stuff about Rufinatscha: 

24. November 2012, 20 h, Mals, Oberschulzentrum (South Tyrol, Italy)
25. November 2012, 17 h, Innsbruck, Kaiser-Leopold-Saal (Austria)


Johann Rufinatscha – Symphony in c-minor, (wind parts reconstructed by Michael F.P. Huber) - world premiere
Johann Rufinatscha – Three Orchestra Songs

Belinda Loukota, Sopran
Andreas Mattersberger, Bass
Orchester der Akademie St. Blasius
Karheinz Siessl

http://www.akademie-st-blasius.at/?cat=12

All the Recordings by the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum "Musikmuseum" (LC27002) do have a distributer from Germany (Label Note 1): now you can find them at amazon Germany (http://www.amazon.de/Rufinatscha-Huber-Werke-Streichorchester-Sinfonie/dp/B005M8EUNS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324055055&sr=8-1) and jpc (http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Michael-F-P-Huber-geb-1971-Symphonie-Nr-2-op-44/hnum/4919013). http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Michael-F-P-Huber-geb-1971-Symphonie-Nr-2-op-44/hnum/4919013)

Also available for download & live stream.

Michael F. P. Huber (*1971) - Symphonie Nr. 2, op. 44

I have been waiting so log time for this record:
http://www.tiroler-landesmuseum.at/shop.php/de/cds/musikmuseum/musikmuseum_7
I am very interested in your opinion of Huber's symphony!

There is only a small Austrian tradition of writing symphonies in the last 100 years: for instance by Johann Nepomuk David, Gottfried von Einem, Iván Eröd, Ernst Krenek, Karl Schiske, Franz Schmidt, or Egon Wellesz. Since I have heard both premiers of Huber's symphonies, I am convinced: Huber is the first really important symphonic composer of Austria since Gustav Mahler!

In the booklet you can read:
"... in the future the bond between Johann Rufinatscha and Michael F.P. Huber will be further strengthened: the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, as the keeper of the works of
Rufinatscha left to the museum by the composer, has commissioned Huber to compose wind parts to go with the string parts preserved from his Symphony in C minor."

I do hope very, very much, we will find on the same program with Rufinatscha's Symphony in C also Huber symphony no. 1, op. 38 (premiered 28.02.2009 by InnStrumenti and Gerhard Sammer), played by the enthusiasm of Akademie St. Blasius. Both symphonies are quite different! Enjoy - Huber is great !

I have been in all those concerts - and I am very, very interested in your critiques!
Thanks a lot!

The CD is now available...

http://www.tiroler-landesmuseum.at/shop.php/de/cds/klingende_kostbarkeiten_62

Michael Schöch, the Pianist, was invited 2010 to participate at Beethoven Piano Competition, Bonn. The famous Piano ist equal to the piano  Robert Schumann bought his wife Clara.

Recently I heard a viny of the syphfonies no 6 & 7 by Pál Kados. I was impressed very much! Are there some other frinds of his music? Does anyone have some records? His vinyls by Hungaroton are hardly to find. Any suggestion how to get them or to get his music transfered in digital? Thank you very much!

You can hope for a new recording by Rufinatscha: In January 2010 the Tyrolean Museum Ferdinandeum has recorded his ,,Serenade für Streicher". I heard the connected concert – it was the fist performance since Rufinatscha's time – by  the "Akademie St. Blasius" conducted by Karlheinz Siessl. Well done!
The short work itself is with strange instrumentation: sometime eccentric deep playing field of the violas and second violins.

[This record will be as more interesting as you also can hear two new works by the Tyrolean Composer Michael F.P. Huber: (,,Jen la momento!" op. 35 and ,,Partita" op. 41). Huber (1971) is – in my opinion – the most gifted Composer (at least [!] of Tyrol) with a lot of courage to compose consequently in a tonal way as well as contrapuntal. He sees himself in the symphonic tradition of Mahler, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and, most of all, K.A. Hartmann. His works are brilliant of instrumentation and full of astonishing Haydn's humor. Great music! I really do love his first Symphony - more than all the symphonies by Prokofiev. His second Symphony will be premiered in January 2011. I hope very, very much, that the Tyrolean Museum Ferdinandeum also will produce a recording of his first Symphony.]

I will report, when the Rufinatscha CD is available!

By the way: There also has been in autumn 2009 a concert with many Lieder (songs) of Rufinatscha. I was deeply impressed: Very good and diversified compositions. (Much more interesting than the songs by Joseph Netzer (1808-1964)  – the friend of Franz Schubert – whose Lieder a recorded by the Tyrolean Museum Ferdinandeum (musikmuseeum2). It is a pitty that there is no live recording of this pleasurable evening!

Hi,

I am deeply impressed by the piano music of Déodat de Séverac.

As far as I can see, there are the following recordings:

Albert Attenelle, Columna Música
Jean-Joël Barbier, Accord
Aldo Ciccolini, EMI
Billy Eidi, Timpani (also by: Ogam)
Jordi Maso, Naxos
Izumi Tateno, Finnlandia

Only Ciccolini has done a complete recording (on 3 CDs). My favorite – far more than the academic-romantic approach by Ciccolini – is Billy Eidi, the French-Libanaisien Pianist (born 1955).

Do you know some more recordings? Which one do you like most?

Now, I am interested in more music by Sèverac:

Do you also know Céveracs symphonic works? I heard about three symphonic poems.

Who knows his chamber work? I heard about Sérénade au clair de lune, Piano Quintet in E-major, Suite "Les muses silvestres", and Suite "Le parc au cerfs". There must be some more.
Are there some records?

Do you know Céveracs Operas? ("Le cœur du moulin", poème lyrique in two acts (1908) and "Héliogabale", tragédie lyrique in three acts (1910))
Are there any recordings?

Thank you very much!

Best greetings from Austria 
a.b.