Pianophilia

Jim Faston wrote:Albert Alain's Nocturne. My B&W version of scans from Gallica.

Alain, Albert_Nocturne.pdf

Have a listen to Phillip Sears' recording on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzXP2pzwHS4
Thanks to PS for providing his recordings (1,720 as of this writing!) of rare treasures.

It is a beautiful little piece. This is the first piece of Albert's I've heard, being much more familiar with his son, Jehan's, works

I see Phillip Sears as gone digital, as have I--seems the only sensible thing to do when when one's got over 10,000 scores on a hard drive, and I get a lot of shelf space back.

Two pieces by Germaine Caveroc from Gallica:

fleubis wrote:
I see Phillip Sears as gone digital, as have I--seems the only sensible thing to do when when one's got over 10,000 scores on a hard drive, and I get a lot of shelf space back.

I think he has been digital for some time ... I have looked at his set up with envy for some time, but with different pianos on which to play and trying to find a universal "one size fits all" solution, I have dithered and dithered over what to get - consequently I am not yet digital. Most of my scores are on 1 terabyte external hard drives and I worry that a notebook (which I think Phillip uses), may not have sufficient power or processing capacity to cope with these, or may be too slow, or worse still, may corrupt the whole EHD, (something I have experienced more than once already). I don't want to have to back up all my external hard drives repeatedly either, so I am still puzzling over the optimum solution, though I completely agree, that digital is the sensible way to go.

I think Phillip has a device for turning the pages, but I am not sure what it is - I believe you can get a foot switch, but I don't think he has that. I'd be interested to know what the options are, what others are using and any general advice about easy set ups. In particular, how have people adapted a digital display for upright pianos - this is my biggest hurdle at the moment.

regards,
tobyjj

I have been going through my music collection recently, and have now found some more works by Chaminade.
I still have more to find, and hope that I will be able to put those on this site in the near future.
Meanwhile here is the first of eight pieces that are not available on IMSLP.
Opus 134 Le Retour.

Some more Chaminade.
This piece is call Aubade and is Opus 140 I mention this as IMSLP have a piece by this name on their site. I have checked it however and that is a song. This is a piano solo.

The next Chaminade work is one of her Gavottes.
This is the third one opus 144.

Next comes one of Chaminade's larger piano solos
A Scherzo-Caprice Opus 145.

Here is Feuilles D'Automne Opus 146 by Chaminade.

The next work by Chaminade is the fourth Gavotte Opus 149.

Here is Chaminade's Opus 151 Ecossaise.