For your information, myself and Darrel had been working on this and are approaching near final stages.
As usual, the reconstruction from orchestral cues had been done by Darrel and I am asking for "real" orchestral parts from Conservatoire de Liege, which provide me with the following orchestration layout:
- Vocal scores (basse, ténor 1 & 2, soprano 1 & 2)
- Violons 1 & 2
- Alto
- Violoncelle
- Contrebasse
- Flûtes
- Hautbois
- Clarinettes
- Bassons
- Cors
- Trompettes
- Trombones (1, 2 & 3)
- Triangle
- Grosse caisse et cymbales
- Timbales
Since the title stated only CONCERTO N° 6 ""RONDO ORIENTAL, I asked whether it contains the 1st and 2nd movements. If that's true, we will have full parts for the concerto.
I will further update here when the work is completed and posted on Youtube.
P/S: I have pre-listened to 3rd movement with choir (without lyrics, of course) and it sounds great, not as 'banal' as someone would say.
Congratulations! Please keep up the good work. I would love to hear this concerto. I have the vocal score and agree that it is not so "banal" as some would suggest (it was Mike Spring at Hyperion who used that adjective to me - but I didn't always agree with his opinions).
Finally, we have the full parts digitized, substituting the original orchestral reconstructions.
(https://i.ibb.co/9d4PYfL/Herz-6-sample.png) (https://ibb.co/6qtQspx)
Yay!!!
Hurray!
I have made a trailer of 'Rondo Orientale' using the near-end portion when all instruments and voices joined in. Darell will post the full work in his channel soon.
Enjoy!!
This extract is most impressive! I am looking forward to hearing the complete work now!
Then, of course, the objective will surely be a recording, which begs the question as to what the likely candidates could be for coupling? I have recently noticed that Herz' "La Parisienne" Op58 was performed with full orchestra and choir in 1830 - according to the title page of the the Schott edition as shoen on IMSLP, although there is no mention of the availability on the title page. So presumably the vocal/orchesdtral parts would probably have existed only in MS?
Obviously, there are several as-yet-unrecorded works for piano and orchestra by Herz - some of which I do have parts for!
Indeed, we are very lucky to have the full parts available. Speaking of other Herz's works, what we have in hand now is Rondo brillante in D for piano and orchestra (ca.1850, manuscript @ Karlsruhe). Of course, we are definitely interested in his other unrecorded concertante works, if you are willing to share to us, we will make it into digital realizations first, and then other recording companies can be interested after hearing our renderings.
We have a few unrecorded Kalkbrenner concertante works in the queue, now waiting for parts to be digitized!
And it is now published: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIZITdAp_IE
Great fun! Thanks!
I loved it!
And ,if I closed my eyes, I could have been listening to Howard Shelley..............
Quote from: terry martyn on Friday 02 May 2025, 19:02And ,if I closed my eyes, I could have been listening to Howard Shelley..............
High praise indeed, much appreciated. Now if only I could get a real chorus together that can sing actual words instead of non-verbal oohs and ahhs... It's a possibility. There are multiple avenues for either real or simulated voices - I have a few offers already in fact. We'll see what pans out.
It's not in general to my taste, but the spirit of the music is very infectious. 'Catchy' is the word that comes to mind.
It's wonderful light music - quite delicious. Herz just couldn't be solemn. Like all his music - and especially his piano concertos - it just makes me smile. Not to be taken seriously for ONE MINUTE!!!
I confess that much lighter music is not to my taste: I tend to avoid, for example, Gilbert and Sullivan, Offenbach, Italian comic opera and all operetta (with the exception of Lehar!). What a sad old grump I am!