Pianophilia

Reynaldo HAHN
musical portraits of painters, as described by Marcel Proust:
Antoine Watteau; Albert Cuyp Aram KHATCHATURYAN
3 dances from "Masquerade" (arr. piano solo by A. Doluchanyan)

Nice pices, Alfor. Loads of fun paying the KHATCHATURYAN. Thank you, as ever.

scanned from original 1925 first edition:

Leopold GODOWSKY
Phonoramas
Tonal Journeys for the Pianoforte
Java Suite Part III:
Three Dances
The Gardens of Buitenzorg
In the Streets od Old Batavia
(as often with G., the extraordinary piano writing is a bit more fascinating than the pure musical contents) Adele aus der OHE (Liszt pupil, eminent women pianist)
Am Springbrunnen
Eine Erinnerung an Villa d'Este
Concertetude No. 2 op. 13 (for more Adele, see my archive: http://www.mediafire.com/alfor)

Alfor, I very much welcome to upgrade my copy of one of the best portions of Godowsky's Java Suite. This suite has a lot of highly ingenious writing some of which valiantly attempts to emulate aspects of the gamelan and other elements of Bali & Java. It is a wonderful suite of pieces, of which this portion may be the best.

Thanks for the Godowsky. Always enjoy playing his works !

Tony

Filip LAZAR
Sonate op. 15 ("dans le style laconique" - a label which may be given to all works of F. which I know)
file deleted (double posting! See http://www.mediafire.com/alfor)

Cesar Perez SENTENAT
Cuatro Preludios (original Cuban edition from 1939 - I previously posted the later soviet edition) P.S. The unpublished Sonatas Nos. 1 & 3 by Arthur WILLNER have been posted at IMSLP (taken from here: http://www.archive.org/details/arthurwillner03reel03)

alfor wrote:Posted as an example for the piano style of this Romanian/French composer:
Filip LAZAR
Sonate op. 15 ("dans le style laconique" - a label which may be given to all works of F. which I know)

Lazar Sonate op.15.pdf

Cesar Perez SENTENAT
Cuatro Preludios (original Cuban edition from 1939 - I previously posted the later soviet edition)

Sentenat Cuatro Preludios.pdf

P.S. The unpublished Sonatas Nos. 1 & 3 by Arthur WILLNER have been posted at IMSLP (taken from here: http://www.archive.org/details/arthurwillner03reel03)

Thank you Alfor, good to have another editions, although both works are repeated posts of you.

Dani_area_51 wrote: Thank you Alfor, good to have another editions, although both works are repeated posts of you.

Dear Dani,


thank you for keeping track with my postings - I really overlooked the double posting of the Lazar Sonata!

best regards

alfor

... I apologize with a freshly scanned BABAZHANYAN Violin Sonata ...

Eminent pianist but neglected composer:

Ignaz (Ignazy) FRIEDMAN (1882-1948)
Like many other musicians of his generation he was much admired and praised
in the earlier years of his career, while the same critics in later years critizised his overly
eccentric and then somewhat old-fashioned style of piano playing.
As a composer he stands in the middle between Poldini and Godowsky. He preferred the short forms
and many of his works have a distinctly Viennese flavour. Many are of a considerable quality
(indeed much better than Poldini - sorry, Sir M.) and should not be regarded as mere salon music.
(Edited Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, etc. with interesting fingering and pedaling - also showing half-pedal.)
So judge for yourself (very rare early works, still published in Poland - more to follow).


Cinq Morceaux op. 13Quatre Mazourkas op. 15 Alexandre TANSMAN
sonatine transatlantique
fox-trot
spiritual and blues
charleston
(the step brother of Wiener's "Sonatine Syncopee"! Tansman at his best!)

alfor wrote:Eminent pianist but neglected composer:

Ignaz (Ignazy) FRIEDMAN (1882-1948)
Like many other musicians of his generation he was much admired and praised
in the earlier years of his career, while the same critics in later years critizised his overly
eccentric and then somewhat old-fashioned style of piano playing.
As a composer he stands in the middle between Poldini and Godowsky. He preferred the short forms
and many of his works have a distinctly Viennese flavour. Many are of a considerable quality
(indeed much better than Poldini - sorry, Sir M.) and should not be regarded as mere salon music.
So judge for yourself (very rare early works, still published in Poland - more to follow).

Cinq Morceaux op. 13

Friedman 5 Morceaux op.13.pdf

Quatre Mazourkas op. 15

Friedman 4 Mazourkas op.15.pdf

Alexandre TANSMAN
sonatine transatlantique
fox-trot
spiritual and blues
charleston
(the step brother of Wiener's "Sonatine Syncopee"! Tansman at his best!)

Tansman sonatine transatlantique.pdf

Awesome Alfor. Specially Friedman, for being rare, but also Tansman, because his pieces are of high quality in my opinion.