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1  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Music for violoncello solo by Reger, Tovey, Busch and Courvoisier on: March 16, 2023, 06:22:45 pm
Cellist Julius Berger has recorded a CD called "Soldanella" with works for violoncello solo from the early 20th century. The  programme consists of Max Reger's Suite op. 131c/2, the Passacaglia from Donald Francis Tovey's Sonata op. 30, the Suite, and the Prelude and Fugue which together form Adolf Busch's op. 8, and the Suite op. 32/2 by Walter Courvoisier, of which Julius Berger played the premiere public performance in 2022. As editor of the last work, this recording makes me especially lucky. The CD is produced by Wergo, and will be released on 17 March:

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/tovey-soldanella-werke-fuer-violoncello-solo/hnum/11153460
2  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Solo violin works by Reger, Wetz and Tovey on: December 01, 2022, 06:27:27 pm
Sheva Collection has released a CD of works for solo violin, played by Anna Kakutia, a violinist from Georgia living in Munich.

http://www.shevacollection.co.uk/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=230

The album can be listened to via Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dXm_WTReY8&list=OLAK5uy_kdv3ZS-o3x8zmncatK3PgzLVuaFi5x67E

It contains:

Max Reger: Prelude and Fugue in E minor op.117/3
Richard Wetz: Sonata in G op. 33
Max Reger: Prelude and Fugue in A minor WoO II/16
Donald Francis Tovey: Sonata Eroica in C major op. 29
Max Reger: Prelude in E minor WoO II/19
3  Assorted items / YouTube performances / Felix Draeseke (1835-1913): Piano Sonata op. 6, played by Charlotte Steppes on: November 28, 2022, 04:32:13 pm
Felix Draeseke's Sonata quasi Fantasia op. 6 has found a staunch advocate in Charlotte Steppes, a young German pianist from Leipzig. She had played the work several times during the last year, e.g. at the annual conference concert of the International Draeseke Society on 16 October in Bad Rodach. Here you can hear her performance from 20 March 2022 in Leipzig:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pumG9G_-D70
4  Assorted items / String quartets / Re: Joseph Haas on: June 23, 2022, 02:17:10 pm
The A major quartet op. 50 is in fact the second four-movement sonata-form string quartet Haas wrote. The first is his op. 8 in G minor, a work he composed during his studies with Max Reger. The movements are:

Allegro con moto (un poco agitato), 4/4, G minor
Scherzo: Vivace, 3/8 D major - Piú moderato, 3/8 G major
Larghetto, cantabile e tranquillo, 6/8, E flat major
Allegro con spirito, 2/4 G major

Then there is a Divertimento for string quartet in C major op. 32, published in 1911 and dedicated to Reger. It is in six movements:

Frisch bewegt, 4/4, C major
Langsam, capriciös, 4/4, F sharp minor
Sehr rasch und flüchtig, 3/8, B flat major
Etwas derb; nicht zu schnell, 4/4, B minor
Sehr getragen, mit viel Empfindung, 6/8, E flat major
Keck und übermütig, sehr rasch, 3/4, C major
5  Assorted items / Individual composers / Bjarnat Krawc / Bernhard Schneider (1861-1948), Sorbian composer on: June 23, 2022, 01:58:54 pm
Bjarnat Krawc / Bernhard Schneider (born 5 February 1861; died 25 November 1948)

Bjarnat Krawc (pronounced like ,,crowds") was a Sorbian composer. The Sorbs are a slavic people of today ca. 60 000 members, living in Lusatia, a landscape in the eastern part of Germany of which a part is in Saxony the other in Brandenburg. Because the native land of the Sorbs is ruled by Germans since more than 1000 years there have been many attemps by German governments to germanise the Sorbs, especially during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This resulted in giving the Sorbs German names. Bjarnat Krawc was officially called Bernhard Schneider in German ("Schneider" is the German translation of "Krawc", both meaning "taylor"), the compositions of his which were not especially designated to a Sorbian audience were published under his German name. His bilingual publications were published under ,,Schneider-Krawc" or ,,Krawc-Schneider".

Krawc was the first Sorbian composer who had studied at a major German music school. In 1883 he went to Dresden were he studied first privately with Heinrich Schulz Beuthen, than at the Dresden Conservatory with Felix Draeseke, graduating in 1893. He worked in Dresden as a music teacher and choir conductor, becoming one of the highest esteemed choir masters in Saxony. In 1918 the king of Saxony bestowed upon him the title of a Royal Music Director. While living in the Saxon capital Krawc nevertheless cared much for the music life in Lusatia, organising music festivals and conducting choirs. He visited Bohemia many times where he could gain support for the cause of Sorbian music. After the First World War Krawc unsuccessfully tried to establish a Sorbian national orchestra, but made successful concert trips with his choirs to Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Under the rule of the Nazis, who tried to dissolve Sorbian culture, Krawc was forced to give up his work as a conductor. In the allied air raid on Dresden (13 February 1945) all his possessions were lost in fire. The most of his compositions did survive only because he had them secretly archived by friends in Prague. After the war Krawc went to the Bohemian town of Varnsdorf were he died in 1948.

Krawc wrote compositions in nearly all genres, excluding works for the stage. The most of his work consists of vocal music, from songs for voice and piano to his monumental Missa solemnis. He was most famous in his live time for his arrangements of folk songs, both Sorbian and German. His instrumental music consists mostly of piano and chamber pieces, but there are some orchestral works to, e.g. a cycle of symphonic poems called "From Sorbian Soil".

The two main influences on Krawc's style of composition are Sorbian folk music and his teacher Felix Draeseke. Krawc was one of Draeseke's most devoted pupils. He regularly performed choral works of his teacher, and led the choir at Draeseke's funeral in 1913. Draeseke's art of polyphonic thinking is shown all over Krawc work, in his folk song arrangements as well as in his chamber music. Krawc's Missa solemnis can be called a direct successor of his teacher's late a cappella masses. As much as Draeseke influenced the composition technique of his pupil, considering the melodic invention Krawc stayed in the tradition of slavic songs and dances. The most of his instrumental music has its roots in folk dance.

If you want an introduction to Krawc's music: Youtube has some of his violin/piano pieces, a piano piece and some christmas songs, sung by a Sorbian choir, such as this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdmlV56ONMQ&t=2s

It should be not forgotten that Bjarnat Krawc was not the last musician in his family. His daughter Rut-Marka (1900-1979) was an opera singer. She married Wilhelm Raupp, who wrote biographies on Max von Schillings and Eugen d'Albert. Their son Jan Raupp (1928-2007), who spelled his surname "Rawp" in Sorbian, was one of the leading Sorbian composers of the second half of the 20th century.

A selective work list

Orchestral works

From Sorbian Soil, suite WoO (1894)
On the redoubt, ouverture op. 34 (1924)
Recollection, symphonic intermezzo WoO (1925)
Three Sorbian Dances op. 77a (1931/34)
Six Sorbian Dances op. 77c (1931/34)

Chamber music

String Quartet in C minor op. 4 (1893)
Sorbian Rhapsody for violin and piano op. 63a (1921)
Four Miniatures for violin and piano op. 63b (1929)
Sorbian Dance for violin and piano op. 63c (1928)
Elegy for three violins WoO (1933)
The Prankster, Burlesque for cello and piano op. 80 (1933)
Little Chamber Septets for flute, clarinet, horn, trumpet, violin, viola, violoncello op. 82a (1933)
From Sorbian Heath, 14 Pictures for string quartet op. 82c (1934)
Wendian Round Dance for violin and piano op. 88 (1937)
Divertimento for string quartet op. 89 (1942)
Signal for 4 winds WoO (1947)

Piano music

From Wendian Countryside, eight pieces op. 6 (1896)
Ten pieces (1940)
In memoriam (1947)

Works for choir

The Orphan, cantata for soloists, choir and orchestra op. 9 (1901)
Missa solemnis for choir a cappella and organ ad libitum op. 79 (1932)
War and Peace, oratorio for choir and piano WoO (1942/44)
To the Wind, a Spring Song for choir a cappella

Songs

At the Lake, terzetto for soprano, alto and tenor op. 1 (1886)
Three Songs op. 2 (1886)
Four Duets for soprano, baritone and piano op. 5 (1900)
Six Songs op. 21 (1910)
Eight Duettini for sorano and alto and piano op. 22 (1909)
The Sorbian Angel, song for soprano and violin op. 46 (1927)
33 Wendian Folk Songs for voice and piano op. 52 (1925)

Scores and CDs

New editions of Bjarnat Krawc's works have been published by Edition Roy. The scores of the works for string quartet, for violin and piano, for violoncello and piano, and for piano solo can be purchased from

www.shop.sorben.com

There you can find recordings of Krawc's works, too. The most important releases are:

- Chamber Music (3 CDs): Arcadia-Quartett, Annette Elster (soprano), Jan Paul Kussmaul (violin), Paul Rosner (violin), Ana Topalovic (violoncello), Christoph Staude (piano); Edition Roy 2012.
- Missa solemnis op. 79: Prager Philharmonischer Chor, Friedemann Böhme (conductor); Stiftung für das sorbische Volk 2003.
- 33 Wendische Volklieder op. 52: Tanja Donatec (mezzo soprano), Stefan Baumgärtel (baritone), René Speer (piano); SERVI 1999.
6  Assorted items / Concerts / Brucknerfest Linz (with Schmidt, Wetz, Weigl, Wellesz, Kaminski and others) on: June 23, 2022, 01:45:26 pm
The International Brucknerfest Linz will present a great deal of unsung masterpieces in September and October. There is a focus on Franz Schmidt, Richard Wetz and Heinrich Kaminski:

https://www.brucknerhaus.at/programm/internationales-brucknerfest-linz-2022

4 September, Ansfelden Parish Church:
Heinrich Kaminski String Quintet in F sharp minor (casalQuartett with Niels Mönkemeyer, viola)

20 September, Brucknerhaus Linz:
Songs by Zemlinsky, Weigl, Wetz, Marx and Wellesz (Ludwig Mittelhammer, bariton, and Helmut Deutsch, piano)

23 September, Brucknerhaus Linz:
George Enescu Piano Quartet No. 1, Franz Schmidt Piano-Clarinet Quintet No. 2 (Fauré Quartett and Matthias Schorn, clarinet)

25 September, Brucknerhaus Linz:
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Baby-Serenade, Viktor Ullmann Piano Concerto, Karl Weigl Old Vienna, Egon Wellesz Symphony No. 4 (Dmitry Shishkin, piano, Tonkünstler-Orchester, Constantin Trinks, conductor)

27 September, Brucknerhaus Linz:
Fritz Kreisler Sting Quartet in A minor (Minetti Quartett)

30 September, Mariendom Linz:
Richard Wetz Requiem (Mária Celeng, soprano, Nikolay Borchev, bariton, Prager Philharmonischer Chor, PKF – Prague Philharmonia, Eugene Tzigane, conductor)

1 October, Brucknerhaus Linz:
Gottfried von Einem Bruckner-Dialog, Richard Wetz Violin Concerto (Chouchane Siranossian, PKF – Prague Philharmonia, Eugene Tzigane, conductor)

6 October, Brucknerhaus Linz:
Heinrich Kaminski Dorische Musik, Arnold Schönberg Cello Concerto after Monn, Franz Schmidt Symphony No. 2 (Christoph Heesch, violoncello, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschner, conductor)

9 October, Brucknerhaus Linz:
Franz Schmidt Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme from Fredegundis (Hansjörg Albrecht, organ)

11 October, Stiftsbasilika St. Florian:
Alfred Schnittke Symphony No. 2 (Johannes Euler, countertenor, Bernd Lambauer, tenor, Bachchor Salzburg, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschner, conductor)
7  Assorted items / Concerts / Re: Woyrsch String Quartet No. 2 in Neumünster on: November 13, 2021, 12:22:51 pm
There is even a seventh symphony extant: the Symphony in B flat minor, written in the 1880s, performed a few times, but then withdrawn. The composer did not destroy the score, so there is an opportunity to revive the work. If that will happen the future will show.

Another yet unrecorded orchestral work by Woyrsch is his Violin Concerto "Scaldic Rhapsody":

https://www.albismusic.de/notenshop/solokonzerte/violinkonzert-op.50/

A few weeks ago a CD with Woyrsch's complete organ music was released. There are a Passacaglia on Dies Irae, and eleven Chorale Preludes. I think that these are great works, but the interpretation of the organist sounds a bit tensionless to me.

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/felix-woyrsch-complete-organ-music/hnum/10670395

8  Assorted items / Concerts / Re: Woyrsch String Quartet No. 2 in Neumünster on: November 12, 2021, 11:20:47 pm
If you want to study the score of Woyrsch's still unrecorded Symphony No. 6, it has been printed now for the first time:

https://www.albismusic.de/notenshop/orchestermusik/6.-symphonie-op.77/

9  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: First recordings of 3 Nikolai Tcherepnin piano cycles (+ Taneyev, Shostakovich) on: November 12, 2021, 11:16:15 pm
The Tcherepnin pieces are real finds. There may be a certain number of recordings of Taneyev's Prelude and Fugue, but Vivanet's performance can stand each comparison. His talent to illuminate complicated musical structures shows itself well in the fugue. I am sure you will not be disappointed.
10  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Piano Concertos by Erkin and Khatchaturian on: November 12, 2021, 11:07:44 pm
Pianist Gülsin Onay, together with the Bilkent Orchestra conducted by José Serebrier, presents a Turkish-Armenian piano concerto album. It consists of the first commercial CD recording of Ulvi Cemal Erkin's concerto, which is joined by the piano concerto of Aram Khatchaturian's concerto.

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/klavierkonzerte/hnum/10699404
11  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / First recordings of 3 Nikolai Tcherepnin piano cycles (+ Taneyev, Shostakovich) on: November 12, 2021, 01:17:38 am
Pianist Andrea Vivanet, who in 2019 had published a well recieved Szymanowski album, now has recorded Preludes of three Russian masters of different generations. His Russian Album starts with Sergey Taneyev's Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor and ends with Dmitry Shostakovich's 24 Preludes op. 24. Between you will find the first recordings of three cycles of pieces by Nikolai Tcherepnin:

6 Preludes op. 17 (1900)
5 Morceaux op. 18 (1901)
"Primitifs", 12 Adaptions d'anciennes melodies russes (1926)

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/russian-album/hnum/10699393
12  Assorted items / Concerts / Pfitzner and Kaminski in Winterthur on: November 12, 2021, 12:54:06 am
26 November 2021, Stadthaus Winterthur

Hans Pfitzner: Kleine Sinfonie op. 46
Heinrich Kaminski: Orchesterkonzert mit Klavier
Franz Schubert: Symphony in C major D 944

Simone Keller, piano
Musikkollegium Winterthur
Jac van Steen, conductor

https://heinrich-kaminski.de/?ds=1037

https://www.musikkollegium.ch/de/event-detail?event=24358
13  Assorted items / Concerts / Woyrsch String Quartet No. 2 in Neumünster on: November 12, 2021, 12:51:06 am
The Constanze Quartet, who completed their excellent cycle of Draeseke quartets recently, will play string quartets by Felix Woyrsch, Joaquin Turina and Darius Milhaud on 20 December 2021 in the Stadthalle of Neumünster in northern Germany. The Woyrsch work is String Quartet No. 2 in C minor, op. 63. As we can read in this newsletter, the Constanze Quartet plans a recording of Woyrsch's Piano Quintet together with pianist Oliver Triendl:

https://www.neumuenster.de/fileadmin/neumuenster.de/media/kultur_und_freizeit/kultur/theater/theater_in_der_stadthalle/Theaterprogramm_NMS_2021-22.pdf (page 39)
14  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Felix Woyrsch: Complete Organ Works from Toccata Classics on: August 19, 2021, 12:26:29 pm
Organist Ruth Forsbach has recorded Felix Woyrsch's complete music for organ at the Reformed Church in Wuppertal-Ronsdorf. The CD will be released by Toccata Classics on 3 September 2021.

The recorded works are:

Festive Prelude on the chorale "Nun danket alle Gott" op. 43
Ten Chorale Preludes op. 59
Passacaglia on Dies Irae op. 62

https://toccataclassics.com/product/felix-woyrsch-complete-organ-music/
15  Assorted items / Concerts / Paul Büttner's String Quartet as Symphony for Strings in Tarragona on: July 18, 2021, 01:05:42 pm
On 22 July the Orquestra Simfónica Camera Musicae plays in Tarragona with Christoph Schlüren conducting. Soloists are Raquele Magalhães, flute, and Joel Bardolet, violin:

Johann Sebastian BACH: Fugue in G minor BWV 578
Reinhard SCHWARZ-SCHILLING: 'Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund' for violin, flute and strings
Johann Sebastian BACH: Violin Concerto in G minor 1056
Wolfgang Amadé MOZART: Fantasia in F minor KV 608 (arr. Edwin Fischer)
Giorgio Federico GHEDINI: 'Canto, o della solitudine' for flute solo
Douglas LILBURN: 'Canzona ' for flute and string pizzicato
Nicolas FLAGELLO: 'Furanna' for flute solo
Paul BÜTTNER: Symphony for strings (String Quartet) in G minor

https://www.orquestracameramusicae.com/es/programas/bach-mozart-i-la-simfonia-de-paul-buttner/
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