Does anyone know where I can find a full score of Straesser's PC, Op. 8 (performance on You Tube)? The Ewald Streaesser Gesellschaft's website (http://ewaldstraesser.kulturserver-nrw.de/ (http://ewaldstraesser.kulturserver-nrw.de)) is opaque to say the least. The Home page contains a welcome message stating: "In the menu bar you will find a download area with audio samples under the extensions in the shop. There is also a contact link and a guestbook." I can find none of these things on the menu bar which, perversely, appears at the bottom of the page!
I wasn't aware that even a reduction of the Vom Ende score was available... but no, I don't, sorry :(
Try the "Musikwissenschaftliches Institut der Universität Köln". Thats where the scores of the violin concertos are located (as seen in my encyclopedia...)
Rather irrelevant I realise. But my immediate reaction when I read Gareth Vaughan's question was to think: Can anyone tell me how to persuade a string quartet to take up and record Straesser's five String Quartets? No answer to that I guess, but I'd love the opportunity to hear them.
If you'd just like to hear them, try IMSLP (see eg Quartet no.4 (http://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.4_in_E_minor,_Op.42_(Straesser,_Ewald)).)
QuoteTry the "Musikwissenschaftliches Institut der Universität Köln".
I did - and it was there. Thank you very much indeed, Tobias.
I've noticed that the performance of the Stræsser Piano Concerto seems to be incomplete, unless the work is tonally progressive. The final movement, which appears to be a scherzo is in C Major, but the concerto is in E minor.
_Does_ anyone have a 2-piano/piano duet score of the Straesser piano concerto? I'm guessing that's the best place to answer that question...
According to https://books.google.com/books?id=1qimhwbpjPEC&pg=PP13 (https://books.google.com/books?id=1qimhwbpjPEC&pg=PP13) there are 4 movements:
Moderato
Ziemlich langsam
Presto
Moderato energico.
Maybe the finale is missing after all.
Listening to the Triendl/Tennstedt recording, that does not sound unlikely at all.
I'm sure that you're right. I believe that the YouTube recording is a copy of one from my collection which I'd previousaly uploaded to UC. That wasn't an original recording either and I can't now recall it's provenance, but I've been unable to trace any reference online to the original broadcast to check whether it was of only these three movements, or whether the finale was included and somehow got lost before it reached me.
... Triendl/Tennstedt recording? *blink* ??
That's what it says on YouTube, Eric.
I have just uploaded my 2008 recording of the Sträßer concerto. This was announced as the first broadcast of this particular recording. The performers were Oliver Triendl and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, conducted by Werner Andreas Albert. As far as I know this is the same recording as the youtube one, including the finale.
When I joined UC I noticed that Mark had already uploaded this recording and therefore didn't upload my own. I did not download Mark's, otherwise I would have noticed that the finale was missing.
Mathias, thank you so much. That's great!
Indeed. This is major work, I suggest. The idiom strikes me as somewhere between Brahms and Reger, with some Lisztian pianistic fireworks thrown in for good measure. Let's hope cpo have it somewhere in their vaults...
Did Tennstedt ever program it live with an orchestra? Even if it's a studio recording for a German radio station, is there any way of figuring out what year, at least, that broadcast is from? Might be nice to know just for one's records. ... Sorry...
(Then again, since I quite like most of the music of his I've heard, I hope (e.g.!! all) his 6 symphonies, including the so-far unpublished ones that I haven't heard but whose interesting qualities and quality I will for now take on faith ( :) ), are given a chance sometime soon. Yes, I recall the first two were.
Meanwhile while Furtwängler programmed one or two of the other four (#s 4 and 6? Mentioned in the big list of Furtwängler concerts at furtwangler.net (http://www.furtwangler.net/inmemoriam/data/conce_en.htm)), I'm guessing those weren't concerts of his that were recorded. ... Who knows, maybe Tahra will release them some day if so.)
(I realize I'm spending a lot of verbiage on a composer whose commercial CD representation consists of one disc at present afaik- Straesser/Marteau clarinet quintets on Sterling- though perhaps some other recordings already - for some time? - in the can...)