Pianophilia

Here's a short work from Moldova. Information and recordings related to this composer can be found at:

http://www.moldovenii.md/en/people/61 (use Google Translate with Romanian as the input)

Other piano pieces of his were including in a previous post in the Russian/Soviet thread, as part of a volume of Moldovan works:

Georgy Stephanovich NYAGA (Georghe NEAGA) (Moldova)
Suite, for string quartet (1968)
http://www.mediafire.com/?2rfall19zd2s25f
(sorry...another large greyscale file )

Could you please use sendspace instead of mediafire ? It give always big problems and failures !

Caprotti wrote:Could you please use sendspace instead of mediafire ? It give always big problems and failures !

I have good luck downloading from Mediafire in the US--decent speed and no incomplete files. As of late they complain about my browser being out of date (even though I use the latest version of Internet Explorer for Win XP) but that can be easily dimissed by clicking through. The capchas alway work for me when they show up. The place I see problems is when one views the file through Mediafire. If the link contains /view Mediafire will open the file--this can be a slow and painful process that doesn't always work for me. You might try removing view/ from the link; e.g.,

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?2rfall19zd2s25f

becomes:

http://www.mediafire.com/?2rfall19zd2s25f

That will get you to a download dialog. I hope this helps--there are a lot of Mediafire links out there with the view option.

I actually have problems using Sendspace. Their site's popups cause my browser to start acting up. Jim, maybe you could explain to me how to efficiently reduce my greyscale files.

caostotale wrote:I actually have problems using Sendspace. Their site's popups cause my browser to start acting up. Jim, maybe you could explain to me how to efficiently reduce my greyscale files.

Caos: I use Irfanview - free on the web - in batch mode to convert greyscale to black and white. It has a stack of features that can be used all at the same time, of which the 'cropping' feature is my favourite.

I should add that I always process the images to .tif files, which although HUGE, .tif files are optimised for loading to adobe acro to create the pdf. But we each have different techniques, so experimentation is the order of the day.

Thank you, Rob. I will check that program out.

To others...I went through some of my recent postings and adjusted the links so that they will go straight to the download pages. If the download doesn't work, usually clicking on the 'try again' option and retrying will succeed. I've noticed that Mediafire does that with .mp3 files as well.

The viewer program built into Mediafire is a resource hog and, from my experience, only works properly on newer computers.

Here's a piece from Kazakhstan. The first movement of this can be heard at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZGK9i1Lvkw

Gaziza ZHUBANOVA (Kazakhstan)
String Quartet

caostotale wrote:Here's a piece from Kazakhstan. The first movement of this can be heard at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZGK9i1Lvkw

Gaziza ZHUBANOVA (Kazakhstan)
String Quartet

Zhubanova - String Quartet.pdf

Sounds like she studied with Myaskovsky - his fingerprints everywhere in this attractive piece.

According to the small amount of biographical info I've found, she studied in the Gnesin Music College during the 1940s and went on to study under Yury Shaporin. Her father Akhmet was also an important Kazakh composer.

Does anyone by any chance have the score of Mozart's arrangement for
string quartet of 5 fugues from Bach's WTC II (nos. 2,7,9,8, and 5), K405?

One publisher was Warren Kirkendale in 1962, but finding this or any other
edition is proving impossible.

http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/tomita/bmc1996/KV405art.html