Alfor's Rarities

[alfor]

Dear Allan,

thanks a lot for this excellent (I assume, that it is!) translation.

I once again will take my copy of op. 4 from the shelves for comparison. But if I remember correctly, I will not agree with the composer's opinion, but will prefer the original version!

[Allan]

Thank you, Alfor.

There were a couple of spots where I wasn't sure if I was tripping over a colloquialism or not, so I left the words directly as they were. For example, I'm not sure what he means by "code parts".

[alfor]

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Theodor SZANTO (1877-1934)
Dramatische Elegie op. 3 (hrs600**)

Szanto Dramatische Elegie op.3.pdf

Contrastes (hrs600**)

Szanto Contrastes.pdf

**high-resolution scans 600dpi

[Aggelos]

Thank for Szanto & CHERVINSKY!

[mballan]

First: Nikolai Pavlovich Chervinsky. Born 1925 - likely trained and living in St Petersburg. Wrote a number of songs, a cantata, a ballet "Hamlet", a sonata for piano, and the two piano works Alfred posted. Alas that is all I can find on the composer.

Second: the two missing works from Vol. 4 of the Alexandrov piano album. I've given Op 102 in its entirety. My special thanks to Alfred for posting all of these volumes - greatly appreciated.

Op 100 Three Fugues

Alexandrov A - Op 100 Three Fugues.pdf

Op 102 Little Suite No. 3

Alexandrov A - Op 102 Little Suite No. 3.pdf

Malcolm

[alfor]

Thank you very much, Sir M.!

The Brahms folksong used in A.'s op. 102:

Brahms folksong.pdf

[fleubis]

Thank you Malc! It is wonderful having Vol. IV complete, and my printer is now happily printing out this volume.

[Caprotti]

Yes I do have Op 100 & 102 and will post these in the next couple of days [thankfully my copy of Vol. 4 was complete].

I am very grateful to Alfred for posting the Alexandrov volumes - I already had a large number of these works but it is nice to have electronic copies [and nicely scanned too]. I know Op 110 & 111 have been posted on PP in the past......I'm sure I may have a copy and will check. There are also a number of non-opus works, which again I have and can post eventually [unless Alfor beats me to it]

Malcolm

PS: sorry been out of the loop for the past week supporting a 5 CD recording project from Brillant Classics with the Italian pianist Marco Rapetti [he was after some obscure Russian scores]. If plans go well there may be some very interesting recordings coming from him / them in due course.

Very happy to see Marco involved in those interesting projects.
I have posted a broadcast of 5 years ago with a well known (for us) 4H.

[alfor]

How about this, Dr. H.?

Lothar PERL (bio???)
3 Syncopated Romances (hrs600)

Perl 3 syncopated romances.pdf

Julius WEISMANN
Impromptus op. 17 (hrs600)

Weismann Impromptus op.17.pdf

...1000 alfor files at mediafire...

[fhimpsl]

Dear Alfor,

Today's posting is an extraordinary surprise for me...one of the major works (possibly the best) by German novelty-piano great Lothar Perl!! This brings back fond memories. I first stumbled onto Perl while digging through the stacks of the Library of Congress over 35 years ago. I was heavily collecting English, German, French and Italian novelty piano music at the time and remember finding Lothar's colorful sheets in the M25 section. He was one of the popular German piano writers of the 1930s, along with others like Hans Bund, Rio Gebhardt, Eric Plessow, Ernst Fischer, and many more that I can't readily bring to mind. I always found Perl's novelties to be very well written from a pianistic standpoint, and delightfully full of lilting melody. His novelty creations (mostly published by Schott in Mainz if I remember correctly) sometimes featured outrageously funny cover graphics, and I remember titles like "Zebra Stripes," "Rocking Horse" (Schaukelpferd?), "Crazy Top" and "Hollywood Stars" to mention just a few. He followed in Billy Mayerl's footsteps by calling many of his pieces "syncopated impressions."

I know little of Perls' life other than that he emigrated to the US sometime in the late 1930s and set up residence in Manhattan with his wife Gitta. He published a few pieces in the US, still in a syncopated vein, but nothing like the material from those pre-war years. I believe that Lothar passed away during the 1970s. Several years later I was fortunate to contact Gitta through a friend at the time. I found she had virtually no knowledge of the Schott pieces, and Lothar had never talked about them with her. If I remember correctly he was earning a living teaching classical piano over the years. Gitta did however retain a large number of his unpublished manuscripts, which she allowed me to photocopy.

Your posting has inspired me to brush the dust off these manuscripts and the rest of the Perl Schott pieces and haul them in here to the scanner! I think if this posting is well received by fellow Pianophilians, then I will work to post all of them I have. Interested members to check the piano syncopations thread in the coming days/weeks!

Alfor, your daily postings are a delight and inspiration to all of us. From the absolutely gorgeous Romantic works, to the exciting Modernists, to syncopated piano....the wealth of piano literature that you share is monumental.

All Best (und alles Gute),

Frank (a.k.a. Dr. H.)