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Members' requests / Re: What is this piece?!
« on: May 22, 2024, 05:28:45 pm »
Thus, the first dance is "Jenny Pluck Pears" https://playforddances.com/dances/jenny-pluck-pears/

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Members' requests / Re: What is this piece?!
« on: February 22, 2024, 08:41:47 am »
I'm sorry. I'm not able to identify the piece. In any case I find it really delightful. Is the first movement  modeled on a traditional Scottish tune?

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General musical discussion / Re: Romantic Finnish Piano Concerti
« on: November 22, 2023, 08:49:20 pm »
What a shame! Of course: Sinding is Norwegian.
To make it up to you, one more Romantic Finnish piano concerto:

Ernest Pingoud, Piano Concerto no. 2 (1921).

Additionally, I know an interesting Finnish concerto composed in the Thirties which I would define post-Ravelian  rather than properly romantic, yet you may like it:

Aarre Merikanto, Piano Concerto 2 (1937)
 



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General musical discussion / Re: Romantic Finnish Piano Concerti
« on: November 22, 2023, 05:32:00 pm »
 Besides the concertos by Selim  Palmgren, I would mention:

Christian Sinding, Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op.6 (1889)
Ernst Mielck, Concert Piece in E Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 9 (1898)
Ernst Linko, Piano Concerto No. 2 in E Major, Op. 10 (1920)

They are all available on youtube




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Documentaries / Re: Forgotten Piano Concertos? BBC article
« on: November 12, 2023, 06:35:18 pm »
 As one could expect, some concertos in this list are more forgotten than others. However, the idea of having a pianist or music editors choose a "forgotten" concerto and giving them the opportunity to explain why they made that particular choice seems to me very intriguing. And I will certainly listen again to those pieces in a new perspective. In any case, Pierné's, Howell's 2nd, and Medtner's concertos are all in my personal top list, whereas I do not find Kabalevsky's second superior to much other music produced in those decades and characterized by the same Soviet grandeur.

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Individual composers / Re: Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975)
« on: April 21, 2023, 01:41:15 pm »
 
...not to say his very first orchestral attempt: the wonderful "Two Studies for Orchestra" (1919/1920).
I discovered them in early Nineties, and I'm still addicted to the first poignant thematic idea of Study 1. 
 

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Individual composers / David Branson (1909-1997)
« on: April 05, 2023, 12:30:04 pm »
 
 Dear fellow members,
 
Following YouTube suggestions, I came across this British composer, pianist and painter (never heard of him till today).

YT provides an exquisite little gem called "Rune" (1937) played by the cellist Idlir Shyti  and Morgan Hayes (who had Branson as piano teacher), together with some piano pieces (the remarkable Piano Sonata (1978) is reminiscent of Debussy and some other British composers of his generation, with some jazz chromaticism and blue notes). 

I'm curious to know whether there are members able to add  details (especially concerning Bransons's  music)  to the profile I've found on  https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/composer/david-branson#

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Individual composers / Luca Moscardi
« on: February 26, 2023, 09:47:03 pm »
Dear friends,
The most recent  addition to my CD collection is Piano works vol. 2 by Luca Moscardi, played by the Sicilian pianist Tania Cardillo.

Maybe you are not familiar with this living Italian composer (born in 1976); thus, let me quote the review of Piano works vol. 1 appeared last October  on recordsinternational.com: “Moscardi seems to be a most extraordinary case, based on available information; but the important thing is that he has produced some first-rate music that is original, entirely approachable in a tonal idiom, and unfailingly pianistic…” (https://www.recordsinternational.com/cd.php?cd=10Y023)

The composer acknowledges Scriabin and early Szymanowski as models for his first opus numbers, and surely there are reminiscences of Poulenc and Tailleferre in his exquisite Concertino for piano and orchestra op. 13 (two performances are available on lucamadeus, the composer’s youtube channel).

“Piano works vol. 2” includes  the cycle of “Five Nocturnal Tales op. 39” composed in 2021. They are essentially Nocturnes proposing a progressive shift of mood “from  dark to light”.
Let me praise in particular Nocturnal Tale no. 4 (you can hear it freely on Spotify, or listen to other performances on youtube): I find it particularly successful for its structural integrity, its nostalgic themes and some ingenious modulations.
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Individual composers / Re: Ina Boyle (1889-1967)
« on: October 15, 2022, 10:10:48 am »
I've heard the entire Symphony no. 2 without noticing its title. Beautiful moments - I thought - but elusive structural integrity...

With the homonymous Anglo-Saxon poem in mind (I discovered its existence just today) and after reading the review https://telescoper.wordpress.com/tag/ina-boyle/ it all adds up, giving a rationale for the meditative and dreamy moods of all the three movements...

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Individual composers / Maurice Blower (1892-1984)
« on: August 30, 2022, 10:16:27 am »

Dear fellow members,

Yesterday I came across the Symphony in C major by Maurice Blower, and I found  the first movement (actually ONLY the first movement) very attractive with its Baxian flavour.

According to a web search, Blower "was long associated with the Petersfield Festival, and is reasonably well known as a composer of mainly vocal music".

Is he also well known by any MFE member?

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Individual composers / Re: Grieg - second piano concerto?
« on: August 15, 2022, 11:44:03 pm »
It seems that the celebrated Concerto op. 16 is the only one written by Grieg. The ukrainian composer and musicologist Vladimir Beliaev (also transliterated "Belyaev") composed a concerto in 1997 "based on some Grieg's sketches" and called it "Piano Concerto no. 2".

Source:

https://musiqueclassique.forumpro.fr/t12850-vladimir-beliaev-belyaev-ne-en-1948

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Individual composers / Bernard Stevens (1916-1983)
« on: August 13, 2022, 11:06:21 am »
Hi guys, greetings from Italy.

 I would like to hear an opinion from other fellow members on the British composer Bernard Stevens.

The main point is that I find charming and memorable his Piano Concerto
(I've listened to it countless times along the years), whereas the other works I've heard left me lukewarm.

Is there any work from Stevens's output I should definitely reconsider?

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