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British folk-song collector (1858-1929), editor
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2023-04-28 00:00:00
Schubert, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Brahms & Liszt: Solo Piano Music (Peter Katin - period instruments)
[…] square pianoAthene ATHCD7 [recording date not stated; first release March 1995, this digital issue 2018][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Peter Katin's own studio, UKRecording engineer: Mike Beville; Producer: Joanna LeachNow two earlier recordings for those who prefer modern instruments. [I had prepared this post before the Rachmaninov appeared on Israbox.] HIP fans should also check out another, and rare, Peter Katin recording of works by Chopin, this time playing Chopin's Broadwood fortepiano, here on MIMIC.In Recital01 Franz Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor [31'21]02 Johannes Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, op.24 [26'57]03 Franz Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, 2me Année, Italy - No. 6, Sonetto 123 del Petrarca [9'16]Peter Katin- modern pianoAthene Minerva ATHCD9 [recorded April 1983; this digital release 2018][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CanadaRecording engineer and Producer: not givenSergei Rachmaninov: […]
2021-09-23 19:00:00
Throwing down the symphonic gauntlet: piano music by Beethoven-Liszt, Schubert, and Prokofiev
[…] be taken in the widest sense, and not simply as relating to a military hero’; ‘understand “hero” to mean, above all, the whole, complete man’. Liszt stood equal to Wagner in formulation and development of the 19th century’s Beethoven. Having met the composer in 1823 – alleged occasion of the mythical ‘Weiheküss’ (consecration kiss) – Liszt proceeded to act as champion in multiple ways: pianist, arranger, conductor, benefactor (to Bonn’s Beethoven Monument), custodian (to Beethoven’s Broadwood piano) etc. As recitalist – he invented the term – Liszt brought Beethoven’s piano sonatas to a rank of public utterance close to that of the symphonies; he likewise brought the symphonies to audiences that would rarely, if ever, hear an orchestra. Liszt transcribed the Marcia funebre of the ‘Eroica’ as early as 1837, alongside the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Symphonies. The remaining three movements of the Third were added in 1863, after which […]
2021-04-15 04:00:00
Mattielli: Three Sonatas (Patrick Hawkins)
Giovanni Mattielli (1733-1805) Sonata in A major, Op. 1 No. 1 (1783) Sonata in G major, Op. 1 No. 3 Sonata in A major, Op. 1 No. 5 Bonus Track: Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 1 No. 6 - II. La Caccia Patrick Hawkins, Square Pianos (Broadwood/Clementi/Ganer) (Period Instruments) Golden Square Records GS 001 (2017) [Flac & Scan]
2021-01-04 09:19:18
The pocket watch and the news periodical: how the public concert developed in 17th and 18th century London
[…] ran the subscription concert series at the Hanover Square Rooms. It was Salmon who invited the composer Joseph Haydn, who made two extended visits to London. Salmon was also a founder of the Philharmonic Society, another important step on the codifying of musical culture in London. As a result of his visits, Haydn created his twelve last symphonies and six quartets for Salomon, but there was creativity elsewhere too, thanks to the technological advances in John Broadwood's pianos there was a strong London piano school with composer-performers such as Muzio Clementi, Johann Baptist Cramer and Jan Ladislav Dussek. Remarkable characters at Mrs Cornelys' masquerade - artist unknown (By permission of the National Portrait Gallery) But London's concert life remained very much a mixture, whilst there were these formal public subscription series, there were still music societies meeting in taverns, and there was also plenty of music-making happening […]
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