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#31

Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Non-operatic Suppé world p...

Last post by terry martyn - Sunday 19 May 2024, 14:19

Did my ears deceive me,or did he say something left-field about Sullivan in that post (for good measure)?

#32

Composers & Music / Re: 2024 Unsung Concerts

Last post by Alan Howe - Sunday 19 May 2024, 13:44

Congratulations! What's the music like, please?

#33

Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Non-operatic Suppé world p...

Last post by Alan Howe - Sunday 19 May 2024, 13:42

Did he mean it ironically? That'd be his only get-out clause.

[String Quartet No. 1 in G minor op. 8 by]

#34

Composers & Music / Re: 2024 Unsung Concerts

Last post by Rainolf - Sunday 19 May 2024, 12:10

As editor of the piece it makes me proud to announce that the String Quartet No. 1 in G minor op. 8 by Joseph Haas will be performed for the first time on 4 June in the Bürgerhaus of Pullach, Bavaria. It will be played by the Diogenes-Quartett. Haas composed his op. 8 during his studies with Max Reger. Score and parts were published by Schott Music last year:

https://www.schott-music.com/de/streichquartett-noc609700.html

#35

Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Non-operatic Suppé world p...

Last post by terry martyn - Sunday 19 May 2024, 11:45

I have managed to collect almost every nineteenth-century symphony that's been recorded. There's a few that I can't get to grips with (the Neukomm,for example) and one or two that I find utterly banal. If the Suppe was really a symphony (and I reckon it isn't),it would fall into the latter category for me. I can't fathom Hurwitz's comments,either.

#36

Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Non-operatic Suppé world p...

Last post by Mark Thomas - Sunday 19 May 2024, 10:56

"A genuine, sensational discovery", "Wonderful", "Great stuff", "One of the great, mid-century, Austro-German symphonies -  no question about it, hands down" - these are David Hurwitz's verdicts on Suppé's Fantasia Symphonica in his latest YouTube post! Was he listening to the same work as the rest of us? Oh yes, he played the end of the finale. I'm utterly gobsmacked. Maybe he owed Naxos a favour....

#37

Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Meyerbeer: Le Prophète

Last post by Mark Thomas - Sunday 19 May 2024, 10:24

I completely agree and that's why it's a mandatory purchase for me too.

#38

Composers & Music / Re: Giovanni Bottesini

Last post by Hector - Sunday 19 May 2024, 08:49

Bottesini wrote chamber music - quartets and quintets, that have been recorded. They continue in the manner of Boccherini and Paganini, that is an Italianate concern for melody over motivic development. I value him  as part of that Italian tradition of instrumental writing that almost disappeared in the 1800's.

#39

Composers & Music / Re: Giovanni Bottesini

Last post by Alan Howe - Saturday 18 May 2024, 21:13

Marco Enrico Bossi would be another name to explore as much of his output pre-dates WW1.

Others would be Michele Esposito and Leone Sinigaglia.

#40

Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Schubert 'Death and the Ma...

Last post by Alan Howe - Saturday 18 May 2024, 19:23

By the way: the Pannon Philharmonic (from Pécs in south-western Hungary) are a very fine orchestra. There's an exciting performance of Nielsen 3 on YouTube conducted by Gilbert Varga.