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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Monday 27 October 2025, 19:14

Title: MacDowell vol.2 from Wilson/Chandos
Post by: Alan Howe on Monday 27 October 2025, 19:14
...featuring Hamlet & Ophelia, PC2, Romanze Op.35 and Suite No,1:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9829031--macdowell-orchestral-works-vol-2
Title: Re: MacDowell vol.2 from Wilson/Chandos
Post by: Justin on Monday 27 October 2025, 19:45
Have all of his orchestral works been recorded?
Title: Re: MacDowell vol.2 from Wilson/Chandos
Post by: Alan Howe on Monday 27 October 2025, 20:38
Wikipedia has this listing (scroll down):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_MacDowell#Works
Title: Re: MacDowell vol.2 from Wilson/Chandos
Post by: Gareth Vaughan on Monday 27 October 2025, 21:58
It looks as if Chandos have now recorded all his published orchestral works apart from the Second Suite. If they intend to produce a 3rd disk I don't know what they will add to it to fill it up - unless, of course, there is some unpublished material that has been unearthed.
Title: Re: MacDowell vol.2 from Wilson/Chandos
Post by: eschiss1 on Tuesday 28 October 2025, 01:45
I doubt they will, but they could - conceivably - include orchestrations published in 1923 by Woodhouse (1879-1939) of the Woodland Sketches.
Title: Re: MacDowell vol.2 from Wilson/Chandos
Post by: kolaboy on Tuesday 28 October 2025, 01:53
They'd likely fill up the disc with orchestrations of some of his piano pieces. I remember someone orchestrated his Sea Pieces a few years ago. One of MacDowell's biographies mentioned that there are/were "sketches" for a symphony, though it didn't elaborate how much material existed.
Title: Re: MacDowell vol.2 from Wilson/Chandos
Post by: eschiss1 on Tuesday 28 October 2025, 05:38
There is such an orchestration @ IMSLP too but unlike that of the Woodland Sketches I would think it -too- recent - from a few years ago - to feel the least bit genuine in such a series...
Title: Re: MacDowell vol.2 from Wilson/Chandos
Post by: tuatara442442 on Tuesday 28 October 2025, 11:15
By the way, Paul Freeman with Chicago Sinfonietta has recorded an orchestration of MacDowell's piano piece, poeme erotique op31 no6, before.  I seem to recall it was the composer's own orchestration...