Alfor's Rarities

[fleubis]

The Kletzki Fantasie is quite a piece and as you indicate Alfor, very much in the Brahms/Reger mold. Kletzki is known to me as a Mahler conductor, but am so surprised that he would come up with such an interesting improvisatory Fantasie!

Happily, Naxos has recorded this piece, and a few other "must have" Kletzki pieces:

http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp ... e=8.572190

[alfor]

Posted as an example of the piano style of this russian-french composer:

Marcelle de MANZIARLY
Six Ètudes

Manziarly 6 Études.pdf

Well-composed studies of medium difficulty. Typical french post-Les Six style.


Alternative scan (sorry, did not check imslp):

Rudolf BRAUN (Blind austrian composer, 1869-1925. Pupil of Labor.)
Drei Klavierstücke für die linke Hand

Braun 3 Klavierstücke l.h..pdf

Charming, effective, late-romantic style.

[alfor]

P.S. (finally a work by Gerrard Williams!!!)


Publication Name: In the wood (Dans les bois). For pianoforte. Op. 13, no. 2
URL: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/instit ... onNumber=1
Composer:Fenney, William, J


Publication Name: Staccato study for pianoforte
URL: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/instit ... onNumber=1
Composer:Greenop, Edith


Publication Name: English pastorals for pianoforte. Op. 43
URL: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/instit ... onNumber=1
Composer:Austin, Ernest (1874 - 1947)


Publication Name: In early spring (Printemps nouveau): three pieces for pianoforte solo. Op. 13
URL: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/instit ... onNumber=1
Composer:Fenney, William, J


Publication Name: Three miniatures : (on poems by P.B. Shelley) for pianoforte
URL: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/instit ... onNumber=1
Composer:Williams, Gerrard (1888 - 1947)
Author:Shelley, Percy, Bysshe (1792 - 1822)


Publication Name: Menuetto for pianoforte
URL: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/instit ... onNumber=1
Composer:Manns, Frederick, O


Publication Name: Two interludes for the pianoforte, Op. 32
URL: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/instit ... onNumber=1
Composer:Garratt, Percival

[liveforpiano]

Thank you very much for these posts today (Sunday) Alfor. And, of course all the others that you so kindly put on here for our pleasure.
Some very interesting pieces amongst them.

Yours delightedly.
Peter.

[fleubis]

Thank you Alfor for today's interesting posts.

I quite like the Manziarly etudes, especially No.5, the nocturne. I find the whole set very worthwhile.

The Braun pieces are likely commissioned by the famous left-handed pianists Paual WIttgenstein as he is the dedicatee. These pieces are a real joy to play and I expect to play these often as they are so pianistic.

[remy]

Thanks so much for the very beautiful Kletzki Fantasie, Alfor.


jeremy

[alfor]

Thank you for feedback!

To Sir Peter, with all good wishes:

Emil KRONKE
Aus alter Zeit
5 Stücke im alten Styl für Pianoforte op. 153

Kronke Aus alter Zeit op.153.pdf

The twin brother (biovular) to his Suite op.147, which I posted previously.

[Jean-Séb]

Thank you Alfor for Kronke. I like him.

[fleubis]

Lovely, Alfor--the new Kronke is a worthy companion to the Op.147 Suite.

[alfor]

Posted as an example of the piano works of this hungarian composer:

Laszlo LAJTHA (Composer and ethnologist, 1892-1963.)
Des écrits d'un musicien
9 fantasies pour le piano (1913)

Lajtha 9 Fantasies op.1.pdf

Look (and partly sound) very much like Bartok's early piano works.