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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: 4candles on Tuesday 13 December 2022, 12:21

Title: Flemish Romantic Piano Music on Etcetera
Post by: 4candles on Tuesday 13 December 2022, 12:21
Forthcoming from Etcetera, a potentially interesting release including music by Peter Benoit, Charles Louis Hanssens, Philippe Vanden Berghe, and Jean Vanderheyden - mostly first recordings. I'm only familiar with Benoit.

Au Clair de La Lune - Flemish Romantic Piano Music (https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9384796--au-clair-de-la-lune-flemish-romantic-piano-music#about)
Title: Re: Flemish Romantic Piano Music on Etcetera
Post by: semloh on Saturday 17 December 2022, 09:23
What a pity there are no sound samples. It looks promising.
Title: Re: Flemish Romantic Piano Music on Etcetera
Post by: eschiss1 on Saturday 17 December 2022, 14:20
I haven't heard of Vanden Berghe or Vanderheyden, but several works by Hanssens may have been uploaded here awhile ago. (There may be two composers- possibly father and son or otherwise relatives? - by that name, so it's also possible that the works I think I've heard, a violin concerto and symphony iirc, are by a different Hanssens.) Is that Benoit 4th fantasy a work that's also been recorded on Marco Polo?

(Hanssens: "Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, known under the name Hanssens the elder (4 May 1777 – 6 May 1852)" -- and his -nephew- "Charles-Louis Hanssens" (1802-1871). The latter is "at issue" here, and I think in most recordings I've heard so far, but maybe not all...)
Title: Re: Flemish Romantic Piano Music on Etcetera
Post by: eschiss1 on Saturday 17 December 2022, 14:25
Here's (https://www.svm.be/nieuws/vers-van-de-pers-au-clair-de-la-lune-flemish-romantic-piano-music) another description of the CD (albeit in Dutch), noting that the Hanssens is a piano concerto, arranged for sextet. Interesting.