Pianophilia

I just finished yesterday my recordings of three Compositions by Felix Draeseke (for more about him see http://draeseke.org)

1) ThePianofantasy op.8 on themes frome Boildieus Opera La dame Blanche (world first recording) you can find the score at imslp

2) Here you also will find the Six Fugues for the piano op 15 (there exist only a recording with organ yet, since it is explicitly written for piano it is kind of a first recording in the right sound I have attached the score below.

(You will find a symphonicpoem ("Frithiof") mentioned in the Thread for orchestral music)
I hope you like that music.
best
Steffen

Thank you Steffen for these pieces. I find you are doing a great job and you are probably one of the best in this music format. Although I still would wish that this music be tackled by real pianists playing on real pianos, your approach gives a very good first impression of the pieces, very precious.

Jean-Séb wrote:Thank you Steffen for these pieces. I find you are doing a great job and you are probably one of the best in this music format. Although I still would wish that this music be tackled by real pianists playing on real pianos, your approach gives a very good first impression of the pieces, very precious.

Oh there are millions of gifted pianists all over the world, it is not my mistake, if they leave such attractive jobs for me to do for the first time.

Meanwhile I know I will never dispute nor feel any rivalry to anyone who preferes to play the music with his fingers on a wodden instrument, since I like it to and do it for myself regularly.

But for me the technique i use here gives me many possibilities that in my impression can strongly benefit the music and its intentions. It is for instance not so difficult to play the same music with "real" fingers on a "real "piano"sounding much worser in tone, technic or musical interpretation. At least is it an interesting challenge for me, to try to let those new possibilities benefit our venerable and deep musical tradition in all its rich beauty.

Perhaps one or the other recording might inspire one or the other pianist to seriously study one or the other piece. If not - even better, than one could at least listen to a music which you would not be able other wise.

best
Steffen

I have listened, since my first message, to your orchestral transcription, and I have been very much impressed by the good quality and rendition of the piece. Thank you.

I have just finished the first recordings of Jean Louis Nicodés
a) Two Studies op 12 (Score IMSLP)
b) Variations (and Fugue) on a Theme of Anton Rubinstein op.18 Score
Both were not yet recorded. Just the Studies are found in the IMSLP
I hope you like those beautiful pieces.

@ Jean Seb: Thank you very much for your kind remarks on my orchestral recording.
best
Steffen

Johann Ludwig Böhner (1787-1860), the 'Thüringer Mozart', hasn't previously been mentioned
on Pianophilia, as far as I'm aware. You could say that he's been on the back-burner until now.
His list of works include a symphony and several piano concertos, although locating them all
is a job probably best left to the CPS. His Variations on God Save The King Op53 look like
they're worth playing, for those bored with playing Beethoven's set for the 99th time.
(Dussek and Kalkbrenner are two others who've also written piano variations on this theme.)

http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db ... =3&seite=1

Hello,

[quote="Timtin"]Johann Ludwig Böhner (1787-1860), the 'Thüringer Mozart', hasn't previously been mentioned
on Pianophilia, as far as I'm aware. You could say that he's been on the back-burner until now.

No relation to Bunsen or the other Bach-Bohners, I presume.

regards,
tobyjj

tobyjj wrote:Hello,

Timtin wrote:Johann Ludwig Böhner (1787-1860), the 'Thüringer Mozart', hasn't previously been mentioned
on Pianophilia, as far as I'm aware. You could say that he's been on the back-burner until now.

No relation to Bunsen or the other Bach-Bohners, I presume.

regards,
tobyjj

Please Tobyjj, no more 'pun'ishment!

Steibelt's Conflagration of Moscow scanned by BSB!
http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db ... 12/images/

available here, too:
http://waltercosand.com/CosandScores/Co ... Moscow.pdf

Hello to all. I'm new to posting to this forum (though I have been enjoying my 'catch up reading' all over the different boards). This is my first request and I sincerely hope someone can help (I had touched bases with member via PM and it was suggested I post here when they did not have the score I'm searching for).

Composer: Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (June 23, 1824-March 10, 1910)
Composition Title: Op.251 - 3 Sonatinas for Piano
No 1.C major
No 2.F major
No 3.G major (Weihnachts-Sonatine)

I attempted to give it a good effort but searches in the standard first pass PD score places didn't turn anything up. Kicking over some rocks in my normal plan B sources also did not turn up anything useful. Commercial searches were marginally fruitful (i.e only partial success as I explain in a bit). IMSLP as the entry under the lists of compositions but no upload of the score. I was able to find that Schott publishes No. 3 but it seems to be sold as a stand alone ( http://www.schott-music.com/shop/1/show,232314.html ), it was my hope to find all three (my thinking they maybe were published together as a set). The third is the most 'popular' and probably the only one really performed today, also known as the "Christmas Sonatina", quite a charming little work with some nice treatment of familar Christmas carol/tune/advent season themes (pianist Izumi Watanabe does a great job w it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5KukPdgDt0 )

Since this is my first time requesting, please let me know if I left out any other important or pertinent info or if requests should follow some other format in the future.