I understand that a certain well-known and respected label is to set about recording the works of the younger brother of Brahms, whose name was Friedrich (aka Fritz) Brahms (1835-1886).
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_friedrich_Brahms_brother (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_friedrich_Brahms_brother)
Included among these is a Symphony in D minor, entitled Die Endlose owing to its gargantuan size - apparently written along the lines of Lachner 5 and Rufinatscha 5 (formerly 6).
Duly pre-ordered. The Germans never let me down.
And here I was guessing that this had something to do with something that happened on this forum 3 years ago on this day (well, the day before this)... I should know better...
Unfortunately the score's still in manuscript and Sibeliusing it is going to be a looooooong process. Watch this space...
I wonder if this could have been posted on any other day but today?
I won't demur and suggest LilyPond, for much as I use and like that competing typesetting program, it does often take longer to use (I gather; haven't tried Sibelius but I have friends who use it for this sort of purpose at least semi-professionally - and who have also used Finale and, once a time, Encore. And since extracting/typesetting just one expldel 1300-odd-bar (4 movements, 1 instrument) part has taken me a month and a half using LilyPond, I also defer to users of a speedier program with experience with it :)
I was wondering that myself, like the YouTube-is-closing shtuffs from yesterday... or the Rufinatscha 3 that fooled me but good from 3 years ago - but... well... one sees. If I am (being) fooled, the thing is, I don't care- it's still somehow interesting...
I prefer Letraset myself. State-of-the-art technology, that.
QuoteSymphony in D minor, entitled Die Endlose
I wonder if they will also be recording Fritz Brahms' other exercise in that genre - the Symphony No.2 in A major
Der Aprilscherz?
No, No.2's called Die Allerkleinste on account of the fact that FB was so totally knackered after writing Die Endlose that he thought a change of compositional direction was essential for his own sanity. What with that and his pesky brother pinching all his best ideas...
Webern avant la lettre, hrm?
What else did he write? Dare we hope for Sonatas or maybe a concerto or two?
I'm afraid time's caught up with us on this one. However, Fritz's Leichtes Konzert für kompetenten Klavierlehrer und Orchester ought to be a candidate for Hyperion's RPC series...
Squeezing in under the wire there is, I understand, a cycle of three Piano Sonatas, known, for obvious reasons, as the Los cycle:
Piano Sonata No.1 Sinnlos
Piano Sonata No.2 Hoffnungslos
Piano Sonata No.3 Leblos
...to be recorded in Loss-los format, no doubt.
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And Brigadoon-like it disappears for another year :)
Quite. Thanks to all those contributed to a bit of seasonal fun.
Naturally enough, as I am the pre-eminent expert in all things Fritz, Hyperion asked me to seek a suitable pianist for the Leichtes Konzert mentioned above. Prof. Les Dawson (BMus. Vienna, Rhyl) came to mind...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMOrsWxh5mg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMOrsWxh5mg)
...but he's dead, so I'm still looking...