Pianophilia

Jim Faston wrote:

fleubis wrote:Good heavens! This Vol. 127....and that begs the question of where the other 126 volumes are!
Meanwhile, the highlights in this collection include Smetna's Souvenir de Boheme and Novak's beautiful song, Chant D'Allegresse - even J.B. Foerster and Suk put in an appearance. Something I particularly like is that is collection contains complete pieces rather than extracts.

Very nice, Alfred.

The good folks at the BNF have quite a few:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb3268 ... ica.langEN

Indeed, they are all available on the BnF Gallica site and, published monthly between 1902 and 1914, contain a fascinating glimpse at the Parisian musical life of the period, plus the odd themed issue dealing with other countries, like this one. Typically, each issue would contain a couple of serious piano pieces, a couple of 'cafe' items (valse-bostons etc.), and a couple of songs. The magazines for which they were supplements are also available online (I can't immediately find the link - they are on an arts website and not on Gallica), and read almost like a contemporary celebrity magazine with lots of photos of musicians of the day. For example, one autumn issue has an article about 'what did our musicians do on holiday', and has a picture of Raoul Pugno off shooting on his estate!

...P.S. Strictly spoken Lang's op. 72 are under copyright and still in print
(Ries & Erler: http://shop.rieserler.de/product_info.php?info=807)

...but I will give you a short preview:

Alternative alfor scan (includes an info folder):

Alfred, thanks for the additional infos on Klein. Clearly he was a great talent whose life was cut short by the war. It is difficult for me to play his sonata without thinking about what "could have been" as this work left a strong impression on me when I first played it. As the edition is the same, I just replaced your earlier posting with this new one.

Eugen Suchon -- Elegy and Toccata (nms)
http://ale07.ru/music/notes/song/fortep ... anskyi.htm

Thank you Aggelos for the interesting Suchon Elegy & Toccata. I always find his piecess interesting. Am puzzled by the repeat symbols described in Russian on the first page and hopefully one of our Russian speakers will translate.

Anyone has a digital version of Ballada dle Byronova "Manfreda" : op. 2 by Vítězslav Novák? Thanks!

How many Kozeluch piano sonatas are there and other than the "Pet Sonaten" score I am sure many of us have (and is on imslp), thanks to george. Does anyone have all the sonatas handy and wouldn't mind sharing them?

Also any sonatas by Cernohorsky and Brixi... anyone?

Thanks,
Parag

A toccata by Haba...one of his works 'in semitones':

Alois HABA
Toccata quasi una fantasia, for piano, op. 38 (1931)
http://www.mediafire.com/download/jmwh1j2bbir61jp

Thanks a lot for this, caos!

Regards!