Music from the British Isles

[Jim Faston]

Posted as an example of the (mainly unpublished) music of a truly original Englishman:

you can listen to his moving „Elegy for strings“ here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhMqsF-EK64

Truscott Prelude & Fugue in C.pdf

Interesting pieces--thanks. Here are two related links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Truscott
http://www.bardic-music.com/truscott.htm

[alfor]

Interesting pieces--thanks. Here are two related links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Truscott
http://www.bardic-music.com/truscott.htm

You are welcome!

Those Bardic people are rather lazy in publishing scores. I cannot see that they have published more than one work by Truscott!!

[Jim Faston]

Another little gem just appeared on IMSLP: Julian Nesbitt's Hebridean Sketches, Op10. Here's my version, cropped with B&W innards:

Nesbitt_Hebridean Sketches, Op10.pdf

[alfor]

Jonathan POWELL
Sonata VII page 1
alfor fingered™

Powell Sonata VII page 1 fingered.pdf

This interesting Sonata had been posted by the composer himself, but appears to have been deleted.

The sophisticated „freestyle“ counterpoint***, carefully syncopated***, and the brooding mood of a certain searching indecisiveness or „obscurity“ clearly represent the author's musical preferences.

***mainly of the beginning -

[alfor]

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Powell Sonata VII page 2 fingered.pdf

There is a slight Chopin reminiscence (not until page 3 ) and some Busoni influence - however, most typical Busonian is the sophisticated use of the Italian language...[/i]

[fleubis]

I'm at a loss as to what to think of the Powell Sonata with only 2 pages so far but I sure am glad you are taking the time to finger it for us--sorely needed on p.2.

[alfor]

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Powell Sonata VII page 3 fingered.pdf

[isokani]

Dear Alfor
I am quite honoured!
What an outstanding surprise... and thank you for your time.
Am up to my neck in work, about to leave for the lovely Netherlands tomorrow.

[isokani]

and there is Josef Suk influence, I like to think!

You can hear a really good performance here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrQ4gGIGAK8
by my old friend Christophe Sirodeau (of Feinberg sonatas fame and much else)

[alfor]

and there is Josef Suk influence, I like to think!

You can hear a really good performance here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrQ4gGIGAK8
by my old friend Christophe Sirodeau (of Feinberg sonatas fame and much else)

Yes, I listened to that performance. Sirodeau is a sensitive pianist, but if you pardon me
I do not like the sound of the instrument very much. I could image Steinways on which the
pianist imho would have much better and easier succeded in rendering the polyphonic structures
of your Sonata audible.

BTW there is a very nice live performance by Sirodeau of Reger's „Träume am Kamin".

P.S. Sirodeau indeed plays very well - . This work is essentially romantic (no, you can't conceal it ). I just would like to have the romantic essence of the music delivered with slightly less pedal and a slightly more sharply defined melody. (It may sound odd, but I would like to imagine this work played by a middle-aged Wilhelm Kempff...)