Alfor's Rarities

[fleubis]

Alfred, what a great way to start the week with this wonderful Adolfini piece. Indeed, highly impressionistic, and a delightful homage to Debussy, it strikes the right notes for a water themed piece.

Thanks for posting this rare piece.

[phikfy]

Agree with fleubis's comment. The Adinolfi is a very attractive piece. I read by sight (not with my fingers) and can imagine the effect. Thanks Alfor for this rarity, though everything from him can be deemed rare.

[alfor]

Not sure about the nationality of this composer.
Any info appreciated --- but please have a close look, dear ilu:

his name is Barbès and NOT Berbas !!!

(n-m-s-low-res)

Barbes 3 danses berberes.pdf

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[fredbucket]

Not sure about the nationality of this composer.

http://www.titteri.org/h_l_barbes.htm

Regards
Fred

[alfor]

Not sure about the nationality of this composer.

http://www.titteri.org/h_l_barbes.htm

Regards
Fred

Thank you very much!!!

[didi]

Hi all

I fear I'm going to support Tobys concerns.

Threats here - by nature - are not always exclusive (lets just use the example Salon Music - Russian and Soviet Composers)
I regard these cross references more confusing than constructive.

Well - just my opion

BR // Didi

Hello Alfor and all,

Having lived with this new system (silently) of posting "viewtopics" in other threads, I now cannot refrain from silence and have to say that I find it intensely irritating.

When I log on, I now often find that there are numerous threads for me to visit ... but in fact if we stuck to the old method, there would only be ONE thread - all ALFOR.

I realise it was a face-saving compromise to change the posting method, but now when I go through Alfor's posts (Ra, Ra, by the way!), I have to click on the "viewposts" and get taken elsewhere. When I've finished with Alfor's posts - I STILL have to go the other threads, because the forum system tells me there are new posts - very often there are not any at all, they were all Alfor's, which by then I've already seen - sometimes, however there MIGHT be one, so I dare not miss the thread and end up either disappointed or dubiously relieved, but certainly compromised in efficient time usage and always vaguely irritated.

Surely, if we download any post on PP, most of us have our own classification systems and store it on our computers according to our own tastes or whims, no matter how irrational and regardless of whether it was Balkan, iberian etc. (Not that I claim to have a good filing system )

Whilst I love (hmm) sorting and classifying things, don't the administrators appreciate that ALFOR is a category all of his own and has such a massive spread of already contributed items that it is a little unneccessary to demand he posts out of his own thread. ?

Wouldn't it make more sense (if the face-saving must continue and ONLY if ...) to simply have a post in the other threads saying "see Alfor" - then I would not need to click and be transferred each time, I would simply save all the "see Alfors" till last when I visit Alfor's thread, confident that I haven't missed anything.

I would rather have the old system back, however.

Thank you Alfor,

I hope the admins are listening, reading, screening or whatever the correct word is.
It is said that feedback is valuable, so I hope no offence is taken with mho.

regards,
tobyjj

[fleubis]

Alfred, thank you for the Barbès "Trois Danses Berberes". I must say these pieces certainly sound a little odd to my ears. And reading bio of Barbès I can see why now. We've apparently got a Frenchman who lived and worked in Algiers--a locale not known for producing much "western" music. This is what I gleaned from the frontispiece (apologies if i got this wrong--via Google Translate):

The main character of the Arab-Berber dances being monotony lovers ethnic truth may consider the following piece as perpetual movements and repeat, if they please indefinitely.

[tobyjj]

Hi all

I fear I'm going to support Tobys concerns.

Aw, come on Didi my comments weren't that frightening!

and hope that was meant to be threads - not threats.

regards,
tobyjj

[mballan]

Hi all

I fear I'm going to support Tobys concerns.

Aw, come on Didi my comments weren't that frightening!

and hope that was meant to be threads - not threats.

regards,
tobyjj

Duly noted Tobyjj and Didi...........Alfor will post other peoples scans and more commonly known works to the appropriate thread [with no link on his own, as I agree somewhat confusing], and will keep his own thread for his own personal scans of rare works.

My thanks to Alfred for his support and co-operation on this matter. Hopefuly that will keep things running a little more smoothly in future.

Malcolm

[fleubis]

Malcolm, all this sounds great as WE ALL APPRECIATE the effort Alfor puts into locating and posting the multitude of scores we have been enjoying and represents a major resource point in Pianophilia.

I will miss having the links to the more well known scores in Alfor's thread, as nearly everything Alfor posts I find of great interest (I doubt that I am alone in this), and will make such scores more difficult to locate. Of course, we could have a long discussion about what constitutes "well-known", too!