YouTube Finds

[Aggelos]

Marc-Andre Hamelin
Bach / Theodore Szanto : Fantasia & Fugue BWV 542
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6paUtk2QRs

[alfor]

We all know a good deal about the art of "piano playing".
But did you know that there is also the art of "wellering" i.e. if playing the piano you can decide to "weller":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN9LN_KJ8uQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YJ8pfh0lIU (listen to the fugue!!)

There are many more examples on youtube .

"Wellering" is a variety of fanatism. The "wellerer" is of the opinion that piano music in general is played much too fast and that he (the "wellerer") is the only person who does it right. While generally not a friend of "wellering" some examples are in fact convincing!

[lutoslawski]

Here is one of my many videos i work always on youtube.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiYk6zUV ... ature=plcp

Kosenko Piano Concerto .. only first movement. The recording is from a live performance on Youtube.
Anyways, i wanted to share this piece of movement to those who are kosenko fans, and might probably not heard it yet.

Tony

[Dani_area_51]

A Piacere (Suggestions for Piano) by Kazimierz Serocki was recently posted by a member. Found an interpretation of this intriguing piece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsDYLVB9Hxc

[Jim Faston]

A Piacere (Suggestions for Piano) by Kazimierz Serocki was recently posted by a member. Found an interpretation of this intriguing piece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsDYLVB9Hxc

Thanks for the link.

[Aggelos]

Moussorgsky-Naoumoff : Pictures at an Exhibition (2Pianos version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1O1BgWYUWY

Emile Naoumoff's version for piano and orchestra.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCVn2jk0Glg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fYVxZng788




Sergei Gortchakov's orchestration for Pictures at an Exhibition (begins at 12:15)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q-FOZEUFVo

[Scriabinoff]

Alexandrov "Recollections - 5 Pieces " Op. 110 (all five!). This is the only recording of this I have ever come across, I was so happy to have come across this seldom performed set!
Part I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riawa0fwPDU
II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDC4pX7hOcY

[Aggelos]

Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the Leo Funtek orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWZF53DCTbY
http://www.medici.tv/#!/modest-mussorgs ... -ashkenazy

orch. FUNTEK, Leo (b. Ljubljana, Slovenia 21August 1885; d. Helsinki, Finland 13 January 1965)
Moussorgsky, Modeste - Pictures at an Exhibition / Näyttelykuvia (1874)
(Orchestrated by Leo Funtek 1922) Premiere Helsinki December 14th, 1922. Dur. 38'
4 3 4 3 — 6 4 4 1 — tmp+3perc — 2hp —pf, cel — str
First orchestration of the complete work - All Promenades included.
Pub: Espoo: Fazer Music © 1990[1995] Warner/ Chappell Music Finland Oy (formerly Fazer Music, Inc.) Listed at Fennica Gehrman Music Pub. U.S. rental agent Boosey & Hawkes -

Published in July 1922, just months before the Ravel orchestration, of whose project Funtek was seemingly unaware. In contrast to other orchestrations, Funtek's adheres closely to Mussorgsky's original piano version ‖ -- Russ, Michael (1992). Musorgsky “Pictures at an exhibition‖ Cambridge University Press. p.7. Mussorgsky's original piano version is printed below the orchestral score.
Movements and Durations:
Promenade 1 1’41”
1. Gnomus 2’59”
Promenade 2 1'01”
2. The Old Castle 4'58”
Promenade 3 031’
3. Tuileries 1'07”
4. Bydlo 3'20”
Promenade 4 0'45”
5. Ballet of the Chicks in Their Eggs 1'18”
6. Two Polish Jews – rich and poor 2’45”
Promenade 5 0’45”
7. Limoges le marché 1’21”
8. Catacombae 1'50”
9. Con mortuis in lingua mortua 2'13”
10. The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba Yaga) 3’23”
11. The Great Gate of Kiev 6’52”

http://www.mola-inc.org/Nieweg%20Charts ... ctures.pdf

Lucien Cailliet's orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx6h6nCaeVs

Orch. CAILLIET, Lucien (b. Chalon Sur Marne, France 27 May 1891; d. Los Angeles, CA 3 Jan. 1985)
―Tableaux d‘une Exhibition‖, Orchestrated by Lucien Cailliet (1937) Dur. 27'34"
Commission by Eugene Ormandy, Music Director, The Philadelphia Orchestra
3[1.2.3/pic] 3[1.2.Eh] 5or 4[1.2.3. bcl (+opt. contrabass cl)] 3[1.2.cbn] — 4 4 3 1 – tmp+8 perc (glock, xylo, chimes, sd, tri, cym, wdblk, tam-tam, bd) —2 hp — str
The unpublished manuscript set of parts was in The Philadelphia Orchestra library as of 1996, but many sections were not currently in playable condition and the score and parts do not match. Only the sections used in the compilation by Slatkin are in playable shape.‖
http://www.mola-inc.org/Nieweg%20Charts ... ctures.pdf

Mikhail Tushmalov 's orchestration
http://youtu.be/NQxcMlhmXa8

This was the first orchestration of "Pictures at an Exhibition" and was made by Mikhail Tushmalov, a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov. It was not absolutely complete, since it omitted all but the first of the 'Promenades' as well as several of the 'Pictures'. The ones that remain are 'The Old Castle', 'Ballet of the Chicks', 'Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle', 'Market Place in Limoges', 'The Catacombs', 'Baba Yaga' and 'The Great Gate of Kiev'.This version was given its first performance in 1891 with Rimsky-Korsakov conducting. Its only recording to date has been by the Munich Philharmonic under Marc Andrae on the BASF label.
Arr. TUSHMALOV, Mikhail (b. 1861–d. in what is now the nation of Georgia 1896)
Pub: Bessel - Reprint Edwin F. Kalmus
Pictures at an Exhibition [Suite] Arr. Tushmalov (ca. 1886, published 1891, rev. 1900
"Instrumentation by M. Tushmalov with collaboration by N. Rimsky-Korsakov." [sic ?]
(Three "Pictures" and four Promenades omitted)
Dur. 20' to 24'50"
3[1.2.pic] 3[1.2.Eh] 3[1.2.bcl] 2 — 4 2 3 1 — tmp+5 perc(glock, tri, cym, sus cym, bd, tamtam, chime in Eb: octave unspecified) — hp — orchestra pf — str

The orchestration by Mikhail Tushmalov is actually a suite (which should be obvious with a duration of 20 minutes), and omits all Promenades except the one preceding Limoges in the original (which opens the suite), plus omits Gnomus, Tuileries, and Bydlo. He also cut out three bars from Limoges for some reason. Though the Kalmus score mentions Rimsky-Korsakov on the cover, it seems unlikely that Rimsky had much of a hand in Tushmalov's suite orchestration wise. Rimsky conducted the premiere in 1891.‖
The eight movement Suite:
1. Promenade 5
2. Il vecchio castello
3. Ballet de poussins dans leurs coques
4. Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle
5a. Limoges, le marche
5b. Catacombe
6a. La cabane sur des pattes de poule
6b. La porte des bohatyrs de Kiew

This one binds nicely with the following
http://imslp.org/wiki/Pictures_at_an_Ex ... chaefer.29

[Scriabinoff]

edit. no longer available. sorry.

[remy]

Mélanie Hélène Bonis, Echo and Narcisse Op.89 and 90 published together in 1910 under the pseudonym Henry Wladimir Liadoff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQigvSRScfQ

So lovely.


jeremy