Unsung Composers

The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Sunday 27 March 2016, 18:20

Title: Gerard von Brucken Fock: Cello Sonata
Post by: Alan Howe on Sunday 27 March 2016, 18:20
Never heard of him? Nor had I:
http://musicweb-international.com/classrev/2016/Mar/Dammerung_CD154.htm (http://musicweb-international.com/classrev/2016/Mar/Dammerung_CD154.htm)
Biography here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_von_Brucken_Fock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_von_Brucken_Fock)
Title: Re: Gerard von Brucken Fock: Cello Sonata
Post by: Alan Howe on Sunday 27 March 2016, 21:08
Details of the contents of his archive are to be found here:
http://www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl/en/archives/list-of-music-archives?task=listhandschriften&tmpl=lexicon&id=030 (http://www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl/en/archives/list-of-music-archives?task=listhandschriften&tmpl=lexicon&id=030)
Title: Re: Gerard von Brucken Fock: Cello Sonata
Post by: jerfilm on Sunday 27 March 2016, 22:55
Cello Sonata in e here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9dMRuUdjGs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9dMRuUdjGs)

Jerry
Title: Re: Gerard von Brucken Fock: Cello Sonata
Post by: Sharkkb8 on Monday 28 March 2016, 02:08
Also a cd on Amazon (Marketplace), with several works for mezzo & piano.

http://www.amazon.com/Low-Tide-at-River-Scheldt/dp/B002E0DTFM/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1459126917&sr=1-1&keywords=Brucken+Fock (http://www.amazon.com/Low-Tide-at-River-Scheldt/dp/B002E0DTFM/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1459126917&sr=1-1&keywords=Brucken+Fock)
Title: Re: Gerard von Brucken Fock: Cello Sonata
Post by: Ilja on Monday 28 March 2016, 12:33
A very minor celebrity in the Netherlands - his Christmas Cantata was performed with some regularity during the first half of the 20th century, but to my knowledge the symphonies and the piano concerto were never performed. His brothers Abraham and Emile were composers too, the latter enjoying some fame with his successful opera Seleneia, which was performed during the opening season of the avant-garde Great Holland Opera house, together with Dopper's The Blind Man of Cuillé Castle (1894).
Title: Re: Gerard von Brucken Fock: Cello Sonata
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 21 April 2016, 11:26
The Cello Sonata is very Brahmsian, but also very fine, with a wonderful range of expression. A worthwhile rediscovery indeed. The performance is spectacularly good. Do try this lovely music...