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Composers & Music / Re: what is this piece?
Last post by Theodore S. - Today at 00:39Quote from: semloh on Sunday 10 March 2024, 12:08At last! It's the charming set of English Folk Dances by Ernest Tomlinson, starting with "Jenny Pluck Pears". now I can sleep easy!
A bit late, but this is great news! Thank you for finding this piece.
#2
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Music by Evgeny Svetlanov
Last post by Theodore S. - Today at 00:39Hello again,
It's true, I have sent Bartje Bartmans a number of these Svetlanov pieces. However, almos everything he's posted was already on the internet, except for the Aria for viola, which is from a vinyl in my collection.
A friend of mine has been digitizing from a vinyl with several piano pieces, which he's been posting on his channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE6dHsIqDJs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8w5jJxq494
In other news, I now believe the Svetlanov Violin Sonata recording with Eduard Grach may be held in the studios of GOSTELRADIOFOND in Russia (they have a few channels on YouTube, with digitized TV broadcasts and reel-to-reel phonogram tapes, among other things). My friend actually wrote about digitizing a couple other broadcasts in their collection, but found out that the price for a digitization can be anywhere from 5-100 euros per minute. We'll probably just have to wait for either a new recording of the Sonata (and other pieces recorded reel-to-reel), or wait for GOSTELRADIOFOND to release the recordings of their own volition.
It's true, I have sent Bartje Bartmans a number of these Svetlanov pieces. However, almos everything he's posted was already on the internet, except for the Aria for viola, which is from a vinyl in my collection.
A friend of mine has been digitizing from a vinyl with several piano pieces, which he's been posting on his channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE6dHsIqDJs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8w5jJxq494
In other news, I now believe the Svetlanov Violin Sonata recording with Eduard Grach may be held in the studios of GOSTELRADIOFOND in Russia (they have a few channels on YouTube, with digitized TV broadcasts and reel-to-reel phonogram tapes, among other things). My friend actually wrote about digitizing a couple other broadcasts in their collection, but found out that the price for a digitization can be anywhere from 5-100 euros per minute. We'll probably just have to wait for either a new recording of the Sonata (and other pieces recorded reel-to-reel), or wait for GOSTELRADIOFOND to release the recordings of their own volition.
#3
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Recording of Raff's Samson
Last post by Gareth Vaughan - Yesterday at 12:11It does sound truly splendid. I am looking forward very much to this release.
#4
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Recording of Raff's Samson
Last post by Alan Howe - Yesterday at 11:56It's wonderful to catch even a morsel of this lovely music. Thanks, Mark.
#5
Composers & Music / Re: Sir Andrew Davis dies 20th...
Last post by eschiss1 - Yesterday at 00:34How's the Holst series he did for Chandos, with such underrecorded works as the Choral Symphony e.g.?
(I'm going to go listen to his premiere of a symphony by R Simpson, a work I've heard under other hands. Would that more fine conductors -now- cared about great unsung music.)
(I'm going to go listen to his premiere of a symphony by R Simpson, a work I've heard under other hands. Would that more fine conductors -now- cared about great unsung music.)
#6
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Music by Evgeny Svetlanov
Last post by tuatara442442 - Yesterday at 00:20Theodore, are you cooperating with Bartje Bartmans recently? What are your newly discovered recordings aside from what he has uploaded?
#7
Composers & Music / Re: Sibelius The Wood Nymph
Last post by Alan Howe - Thursday 25 April 2024, 18:51Actually the Wood Nymph contains plenty of music that is also proleptic of Sibelius' later works - especially the opening which looks forward to the 5th Symphony and, in its moments of sheer wildness, to Tapiola. What an amazingly original composer he was - virtually from the word go.
#8
Recordings & Broadcasts / BBC Proms 2024 Season
Last post by Alan Howe - Thursday 25 April 2024, 18:45Having scanned today's release of details, I find that there are some concerts of interest in the upcoming season:
22nd July: Schoenberg 'Pelleas und Melisande' & Zemlinsky 'Die Seejungfrau' (BBCNOW/Ryan Bancroft)
5th August: Busoni Piano Concerto (Ben Grosvenor/LPO/Gardner)
12th August: Farrenc Overture No.17 (BBCNOW/Nil Venditti)
27th August: Suk 'Asrael' Symphony (Czech Philharmonic/Hrusa)
13th September: Farrenc Symphony No.3 (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Manacorda)
22nd July: Schoenberg 'Pelleas und Melisande' & Zemlinsky 'Die Seejungfrau' (BBCNOW/Ryan Bancroft)
5th August: Busoni Piano Concerto (Ben Grosvenor/LPO/Gardner)
12th August: Farrenc Overture No.17 (BBCNOW/Nil Venditti)
27th August: Suk 'Asrael' Symphony (Czech Philharmonic/Hrusa)
13th September: Farrenc Symphony No.3 (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Manacorda)
#9
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Johanna Senfter Chamber mu...
Last post by Alan Howe - Thursday 25 April 2024, 18:04Works featured:
Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op.119
Clarinet Sonata in A, Op.57
Kleines leichtes (= Small/Short Simple) Trio Op.134
Piano Quartet No.1 in E minor, Op.11
Sonata in D, Op.37 for Clarinet, Viola, Horn & Piano
Trio Op.103 for Clarinet, Horn & Klavier
Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op.119
Clarinet Sonata in A, Op.57
Kleines leichtes (= Small/Short Simple) Trio Op.134
Piano Quartet No.1 in E minor, Op.11
Sonata in D, Op.37 for Clarinet, Viola, Horn & Piano
Trio Op.103 for Clarinet, Horn & Klavier
#10
Composers & Music / Re: Sir Andrew Davis dies 20th...
Last post by tappell - Thursday 25 April 2024, 17:11That is sad news. Sir Andrew Davis has always been my go to conductor for Elgar, after I purchased and grew to love, his 5 cd box set with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, now on Warner. I also have a treasured DVD of Sir Andrew Davis conducting the Enigma Variations, and explaining and referencing each variation. A sad loss.