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Mark,

Apologies for my stupidity - I hadn't noticed the download was executed so quickly.  No probs after all!!

Richard

Mark,

Having a problem with the new Leiviska download - my PC, after clicking on your Mediafire link, starts a new tab and then immediately closes it and jumps back to where it came from.  Is it just my PC or a quirk with the link?

Any help appreciated

Richard Moss

Terry,

I have a (the?) CD containing Castro's Symphony No. 1.  I bought it quite a few years ago and sadly can't remember from where.

The details are as follows:

Title:     Siete Compositores Mexicanos - Disco por el Bicentenario 1810 - 2010

Label:     Animusa, a division of GRABACLASIC (IFF I've read the cover correctly) - no obvious catalogue number

Artists:    Orquesta Clasica de Mexico A.C.; director Carlos Esteva;  *organista Manuel Zacarias; *coro Amigas de la Musica; *coro director Lucero Prtado de Navarro; *Soprano Patricia Martin de Navarro ( don't recall artists marked * being relevant to the symphony)

I've scanned the (VERY!) brief inlay that came with the CD but I don't know how to attach it.  If you want  this, then please message me and I'll try and take it from there.

The four tracks of the symphony (nos. 4-7) are: I. Intro; molto allegro (14'33); II. Andante (5'59); III. Scherzo (2'30); IV. Allegro finale (8'00)

Hope this helps

Best wishes

Richard

Ilya

Your comment "Ballet music, in its original form and when done right, forms a careful interplay with the visual element of dance. For that reason, it is almost always a bit unsatisfactory as standalone music..." I think is most interesting.  On reflection I can see that even enjoying, say Tchaikovsky's ballet music, subconsciously I think the enjoyment comes from it evoking having watched the ballet, otherwise I can see how it would seem to drag.

Glad that at least we have the clips you sent me the links for.

Agaibn, many thanks

Richard

Ilja,

Thanks for your prompt reply with the links to the preludes etc. to which I've now had a first listen - most enjoyable and I feel definitely reflecting his early 'romanticism'.  I didn't find anything recorded when I tried Presto et al.

If the rest of these ballets is as pleasant as these two links, then we are sadly missing some really enjoyable music.  Wonder why neither CPO particularly (given their apparent desire to satisfy us 'completists', as Mark labelled us!) nor CHANDOS picked up on these works (either complete ballets or just the preludes?) when they were doing their orchestral sets?. 

Poses the question: When is a box-set of "The complete works of..." NOT the complete works?

Cheers

Richard

I'm just starting a new cycle of going through my CDs (A-Z by composer) and looking for any gaps I might wish to fill.  In doing so I've noticed that Atterberg wrote 3 ballets. Now, whilst I'm not usually a fan of complete stage works recordings, I usually like the overtures/preludes, suites etc. often taken from them.

In the case of Atterberg's ballets, I'm finding slim pickings or even less in both recordings available and even non-academic literature about these works (i.e. I'm looking for the sort of level of info that would be on accompanying sleeve notes).

Like many a 20th c. composers, some of his later works (e.g. Sym 9) are definitely not my cup of tea but quite often somewhat earlier stuff I find is still quite 'romantic' in style.

If anyone can advise on either available recordings and/or information on his ballet works I would really appreciate it. 

Thanks

Richard

At least it would seem that some of his symphonies have extant scores which may get a modern recorded airing one day but a full cycle now seems even more 'unlikely'.  Que sera!

Thanks for all the updates guys.

Cheers

Richard 

Thanks to UC members for their contributions.  Did Inger Sørensen's biography mention the '7th' (as per Alan's listing of his seven symphonies. As a 'completist' (Mark's affliction too, I believe??) it is a little frustrating that there appears to be no (readily found) mention of the 7th on the web apart from that WIKI listing. 

An interesting  point too that none of the usual Scandinavian sources (e.g. Dacapo, SIMAX, Musica Sveciae etc.) have not done ANY of his symphonies (unless I've missed them somewhere), never mind the whole cycle. Do  we have any information on whether there are extant scores for these works - presumably at least those for the YOUTUBE performances they must exist for those performances to have been possible.  What about the others?

From memory (dodgy at the best of times and more so as I haven't played Hartmann's works for a while) I agree his work isn't 'top drawer' but it is a pleasant listen and I don't feel the need to 'skip' tracks (as I find is often the case with so-called 'late' romantic works).

Cheers

Richard

Reverie,

Tks for the comments but following your YOUTUBE link, it refers to another symphony (i.e. the E-flat one Op 29, not the D minor one Op 49).

Perhaps referring to the (WIKI) Opus Nos. list is less ambiguous than usnig 'Symphony No. xx' ?

Cheers

Richard

Does anyone have any information on this work.  All I've found is it being listed in WIKI (which says his first three (early) symphonies were not given 'numbers' when published, hence this being published as 'No. 4'.  If those early three are included, then this is his 7th symphony. 

I can find no recording nor even comments about it.  also, although WIKI gives this as OP. 49, elsewhere I've seen that same number attributed to his PC (which I have under OP. 47 - hope that's correct!)

Any info appreciated.

Cheers

Richard

Apologies for my previous post - I now realise this album  it has been out for a while - a senior moment!

Cheers

Richard

Further to earlier advance notice on UC of the Toccata pipeline, just noticed their new Moszkowski release is now available, including Suite No. 1 as its major item.  Available as a download from Amazon and Presto (and possibly elsewhere) but no digital booklet included (but that is available on the Toccata web-site).

Happy landings!

Richard

For some reason my PC will not let me connect to 'Mediafire' (something about an unsupported protocol??).  Anyway, if anyone has available the mp3 file(s?) that are in the link for this work I would really it if someone could e-mail it/them to me.  Having very much enjoyed 'Reverie's' synthesised version on YOUTUBE, I would love to hear the rea\l orchestral thing!

Many thanks

Richard

Just to confirm Mark's note - the 'Muiskmuseum' CD I have of the Pembaur 'Festmesse' gives his dates as 1848 - 1923 and suggests the work was written in 1876 at  Innsbruck.

Cheers

Richard

Terry,

The other Pembaur CD is his 'Fest-messe' in F maj 1976 (ca. 40' duration), the CD itself is annotated as '44', I assume meaning number 44 in the Musikmuseum's CD listings. 

I've just had a look at the 'Musikmuseum' CDs in the  web 'shop and I see the Pembaur Mass is not longer listed - perhaps they have run out and do not intend to make any more(?) but may be worth asking in case they still have one available.

Best wishes

Richard