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Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Music for violoncello solo by Reger, Tovey, Busch and Courvoisier
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on: March 16, 2023, 06:22:45 pm
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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
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Assorted items / String quartets / Re: Joseph Haas
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on: June 23, 2022, 02:17:10 pm
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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
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Assorted items / Concerts / Brucknerfest Linz (with Schmidt, Wetz, Weigl, Wellesz, Kaminski and others)
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on: June 23, 2022, 01:45:26 pm
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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-20224 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)
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Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / In search of Keilberth's missing Braunfels recording (op. 36), a call for help
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on: December 19, 2020, 07:21:23 pm
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On this day, 138 years ago, Walter Braunfels was born. So this is maybe a good opportunity to ask you for help considering a special recording of his Prelude and Fugue for orchestra op. 36.
The label Aldilà Records plans to release an edition with recordings of Joseph Keilberth which show this famous conductor as an advocate of music by his contemporaries. It will contain works by Heinrich Kaminski, Paul Hindemith, Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling and Karl Höller. Also it was planned to include Keilberth's recording of Braunfels's Prelude and Fugue. That Keilberth made a radio recording of this work for the WDR is documented, but unfortunately the tape of this could not be found yet.
So I want to ask you, if someone of you possesses a copy of Keilberth's recording, which could be used as source for Aldilà's publication.
Our user Holger, to whom I am very grateful, has found an old recording of Braunfels's op. 36, but unfortunately his source could not provide him with any information about the conductor or orchestra, only that it was recorded by West German radio could be granted for sure.
You will find it posted in the Downloads section, Thread "German music" (reply #69).
Christoph Schlüren, founder of Aldilà Records, told me that, except Keilberth's, there were at least two other radio recordings of Prelude and Fugue made during the 1950s, one conducted by Günter Wand, the other conducted by Otto Matzerath.
So my other question is: Can somebody identify this recording, and say if it is Keilberth's or not?
Grateful for every help,
Rainolf
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