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1  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Cornelis Dopper (1870-1939) on: December 19, 2021, 03:00:13 pm
Symphony No. 5 is a large scale choral symphony.  It is extant but remains in MS, and it would take lot of dedicated work to produce both orchestral and vocal sets of parts,  plus of course there would be the cost of mounting a performance/recording in terms of musicians. So we might have to wait a long time to hear it, if we ever do. A pity, as I too admire Dopper's music and the work sounds intriguing.

Having just written the above, I decided to visit the website of the Cornelis Dopper Foundation, where I found the following piece of news, posted earlier this year and which, because the site is in Dutch only, I put through "Google translate" to produce this text:

The printed orchestral score, the vocal score and the orchestral parts of the first movement of Dopper's Fifth Symphony are ready and the piece can now finally be performed. The “Sinfonia Epica” for large orchestra, choir and soloists on a text from Homer's Iliad Homer was adapted by Marinus Degenkamp and Joop Stam and printed by the Publicom printer in Stadskanaal.

The Veenkolonial Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lubertus Leutscher, plans to perform the first movement of Dopper's Fifth Symphony. Leutscher has since received the music in print.

The performance of the concert is scheduled for November 14 of this year. However, due to the vicissitudes surrounding the coronavirus, it is unclear whether the concert can already be performed on that date. It is a difficult piece and requires a lot of rehearsal. There is, therefore, a good chance that it will not be implemented until the spring or autumn of 2022.


I am pretty sure we would have heard about it if there had been a performance on November 14th. Nevertheless, the news that performance materials for the first movement of this work have now been prepared is most encouraging.
2  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Ruth Gipps Chandos on: November 16, 2021, 12:22:19 am
Push it, please!
3  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: First recordings of 3 Nikolai Tcherepnin piano cycles (+ Taneyev, Shostakovich) on: November 14, 2021, 09:16:34 pm
What a very interesting and adventurous disk. The Tcherepnin pieces are particularly intriguing - and really rather good. But, in truth, everything on this disk is "top drawer". Something for the Christmas stocking, methinks!
4  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Ruth Gipps Chandos on: November 14, 2021, 09:12:19 pm
This is very good news indeed. Thanks so much, cilgwyn - that's made my day.
5  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1847-1935) on: October 15, 2021, 09:24:51 pm
Don't  forget La Belle Dame sans Merci which Cameo Classics recorded with the Malta Philharmonic under Michael Laus, now reissued on Lyrita.
6  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Musical Parodies on: August 28, 2021, 02:20:32 pm
Have you tried this delightful Foxtrot by Leopold Krauss-Elka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mVqStG3G9I
7  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Forgotten Women Composers on: August 28, 2021, 11:40:58 am
Dame Clara was probably thinking "Money!"
8  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Holbrooke late piano works on: August 21, 2021, 09:39:22 pm
I wrote the booklet notes for this CD. Simon plays all the music absolutely beautifully. I hope there will be a second volume.
9  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Rutland Boughton (1878-1960) on: August 14, 2021, 10:14:16 am
I love the phrase, "beset with orchestral fallibility".
10  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Léon Boëllmann: Symphony and Symphonic Variations on Fuga Libera on: June 03, 2021, 05:36:54 pm
I agree that £35 is an excellent price for the full score of the Symphony. No need to shell out any money on the Symphonic Variations, however, since the full score for that work can be downloaded from IMSLP.
11  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Cipriani Potter (1792-1871) on: May 25, 2021, 03:30:15 pm
Nothing yet, I fear. But will post as soon as I have any news.
12  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Cipriani Potter (1792-1871) on: May 25, 2021, 02:38:58 pm
Really good news. Well done, everybody.  They really do listen.
13  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Wilhelm Furtwängler: Symphonie Nr.1 h-moll on: May 21, 2021, 02:31:03 pm
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you well know "masterpiece" ain't in my vocab

I did say near masterpiece! It's an over used word, I agree.

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Any news on Carl Rosa?

Not a peep, alas.
14  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Cipriani Potter (1792-1871) on: May 21, 2021, 02:28:02 pm
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and then email CPO to ensure that this is just the beginning of their Potter traversal.

This instruction is important. They DO listen to customer feedback. Please drop CPO a line - for attention of Herr Burkhard Schmilgun (he is the Artists & Repertoire Manager).
15  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Franz Lachner: Symphonie Nr.6 on: May 21, 2021, 01:23:35 pm
The 6th symphony by Lachner is a first class work (much better in my opinion than the 5th - the so called Prize Symphony, which is too long for its material) - and it comes coupled with the early Bassoon Concertino which I shall be very interested to hear. Definitely on my "to buy" list.
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