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#10441
Recordings & Broadcasts / Other cpo new recordings
Monday 15 March 2010, 02:39
Also expected from cpo in March 2010 according to their website-
Gunter Raphael symphonies 2-5
Goepfert clarinet concertos
a new recording of Dvorak's A major cello concerto reconstruction with other cello and orchestra works

(Possibly more besides, but that's what I find)
#10442
Composers & Music / Re: Gunnar de Frumerie
Sunday 14 March 2010, 23:27
Records International claims the variations and fugue are fairly early in publication (op. 11) and lists another recording (with the composer at the piano; no idea if it's still available) where they're coupled with a symphonic ballad with piano op. 31 of 1944  and a concerto for two pianos and orchestra op. 46 among other works (see http://www.recordsinternational.com/archive/RICatalogMar99.html ).
Eric
#10443
Quote from: TerraEpon on Thursday 11 March 2010, 06:48
Yeah, I like what I have of Novak -- mostly orchestral stuff (suites and tone poems) including the orchestraion of Pan, and a fantastic oratorio called The Storm -- a piano concerto from him sounds tasty.

There's some fine chamber music also- an LP of his third string quartet and cello sonata had very good performances.  The third string quartet may not have reappeared on CD,  but there have been CD recordings of the sonata (a compact, charged and memorable work) and, I think, of the other two quartets (and his piano quintet, two piano trios and violin sonata) on various labels.
#10444
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Camillo Schumann
Sunday 14 March 2010, 06:20
Being picky I'm guessing Camillo, like relative Georg, worked mostly in the 20th century actually, but may be mistaken. (From Georg Schumann I've heard only some - rather good - motets but hope to hear more. Seem to recall skimming a chamber work in the Flonzaley Quartet collection at New York Public Library too, but not positive.)
#10445
Composers & Music / Re: Joseph Kuffner (1776-1856)
Saturday 13 March 2010, 13:31
Re contemporaries of Beethoven, I like what I've heard (mostly over Concertzender Hilversum) by Johann Wilhelm Wilms (1772-1847) ...
#10446
Composers & Music / Re: Fritz Brun
Friday 12 March 2010, 23:27
Re Wilhelm Berger: the recording I know about which seems more likely to still be available (?) is of his piano quintet, a 1994 recording on MDG.

There is another Wilhelm Berger, a Romanian composer, but I don't know of any CD recordings of his music. A violin concerto of his was recorded on LP.
#10447
Might I add http://radiowavetuner.com/ as a resource and list of stations rolled up into one, perhaps?
Eric
#10448
Quote from: wunderkind on Friday 12 March 2010, 13:41
It appears that the most recent addition to the Wartime Music series is Volume 11 - composer Yuri Kochurov.  A new name to me; I've heard nothing by this composer.


It seems Maria Yudina played an Adagio of his (full name: Yury Vladimirovich Kochurov) from about 1956 (available on a CD or CD set of her performances, I think), and that he wrote music for film (as did many other Soviet composers). I don't know if he is still alive (yeah or nay). His name (these may all be different Yuri Kochurovs, of course) also appears as the editor/restorer in 1946 of Tchaikovsky's Voyevoda whose score was destroyed in an opera-house fire? (Google-books  "A Shostakovich Casebook" footnote mention.)  All tangential to the "Macbeth Symphony" that I think is on this latest CD, or to giving his year of birth (besides probably before 1936 and probably earlier).

Worldcat gives the date of publication of the Kochurov Macbeth symphony as 1962.
#10449
Quote from: Marcus on Friday 12 March 2010, 11:49
Hello TerraEpon,
Not a concerto either, but I think Leroy Anderson  ? used a typewriter in one of his pieces, and Antheil used carhorns? or something equally as confronting.
The ABC have released a disc of Tuba Concertos by V.Williams (the best of them),Lovelock,Wilder,Kenny & Danielsson. (ABC # 476 5251). Naxos have a disc of Tuba concertos by Gregson,Steptoe,Golland & V.Williams.(8.557754), and another of Timpani Concertos by Druschetzki,Philidor,Fischer,Molter, & Graupner. Re the Timpani concertos,unless you are an enthusist looking for something different, don't waste your money !
Marcus.

Given Molter and Graupner's basically good music elsewhere, I expect the problem is with the performance myself... and I remember a quite positive review of another recording of the Druschetzky (the concerto for oboe and 8 timpani?) together with a symphonie concertante by Maximilian von Druste-Hulshoff that was of course a review and an opinion but still makes me wonder about the performance on the Naxos disc.  Just a guess though.
#10450
Composers & Music / Fritz Brun
Friday 12 March 2010, 06:39
Listened today to the 2nd symphony (1911) of this Swiss composer - born Lucerne 1878, died 1959 Grosshochstetten - for the first time.

(I think I recall beginning his en-Wikipedia article, but I hadn't heard anything of his until now.) It was on BBC Radio 3 last week (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r2lk9) (Kitajenko conducting Berne Symphony).  In the 2nd symphony I hear something of Brahms (possibly the Brahms of serenade no. 2), maybe Dvorak, maybe Strauss or Bruckner; the slow movement's ending is impressively still - there's a lot to be said about this 40-minute work and really I'm still digesting it :) I do hope to hear more of his music and am glad more has been recorded. The 5th symphony of 1929 with its opening Chaconne has always sounded interesting to me.
Glad to have heard his music finally.
(Briefly see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Brun)
Anyone familiar with the other symphonies, the concertos, the string quartets, other works? Heard the other recordings, know of ones in progress? Opinions? Thanks-
Eric
#10451
Grizzly would involve a bear. This just sounds gory...
#10452
Speaking of M. Weinberg's Mendelssohn-and-others-quoting :) trumpet concerto, it will be on next Thursday on BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rd8lj
#10453
Re Mosolov again (sorry!) : the works on the disk are the cello concerto no. 2 from 1937-5 and the symphony in E from 1944 (http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product//NFPMA9978.htm ).
I'm also glad to see so much Myaskovsky in the series and hope the performances compare favorably to others that exist of the same works. Perhaps they'll take the opportunity of a future release to record "Kirov is with us", another wartime Myaskovsky work- probably requires considerable outlay though.
(I also hope a future release will contain something along the lines of Evgeny Golubev's symphony no. 3 of 1942 (rev. 1974), say, and/or the piano concerto no. 1 of 1944 (once recorded by V. Bunin apparently); one can always dream. I would say symphony 5 but its 1960 date is well outside of the Wartime Music's considerations. Though a new recording of that work, or even a reissue, would be welcome anyway.)
Eric
#10454
Modern euphonium concertos come to mind, too?  Gordon Jacob's 1969 Fantasia, and others.
#10455
Composers & Music / Re: Composer Rivalries?
Thursday 11 March 2010, 18:43
Quote from: thalbergmad on Thursday 11 March 2010, 08:38
My understanding is that this will be in the public domain, since it is only a new edition of an out of Copyright work.

I think IMSLP have learned their lesson from the UE affair and are unlikely to let something similar happen again.

Thal

That doesn't mean it doesn't sometimes take them awhile to find and remove etc. In this case the work itself was first published 1888, but I don't know how much editing went into the new edition so far as copyright law might be concerned in different countries (horrible grammar, I know). Better to scan the original edition to be safe, imhonesto...