Pianophilia

soh choon wee wrote:

alfor wrote:http://www.jwpepper.com/10376839E.item#.Vg1hU2rFf1Q

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There is an audio clip........ I listen for 2 minutes..... no I don't want to see the score anymore.

This man murdered Ravel.

Terrible clip!!

But, perhaps there's really someone who enjoys playing this. At least the vanity of playing 'Scarbo'.

Final RAHMOH-ÜBER:

Lovely, Alfred. Nice to have all 3 suites. So much more fun to play on the piano than in the original harpsichord....which I gallantly tried (and failed).

I too can appreciate some pieces of this execrable travesty. By the way, does anyone know from which work (and composer) are the 2nd suite's air and the 3rd suite's pièce ?

blast wrote:...2nd suite's air and the 3rd suite's pièce...

Air = "Pièce sans titre" - actually Du Phly: 2e Menuet from Quatrième Livre de Pièces de Clavecin
and
Pièce = "Pièce sans titre" - actually Du Phly: La Vanlo from Premier Livre de Pièces de Clavecin
(see IMSLP)

For a long time these pieces had been attributed to Rameau.

P.S. If you see the Rameau-Huber pieces as what they are: free piano transcriptions of harpsichord pieces, they may be considered as quite successful achievements!
(You may prefer the original scores, though, which can be successfully played on a modern Concert Grand as notable pianists recently proved.)

Actually I find some of these arrangements interesting. "Execrable travesty" is a quote from Girdlestone for whom they are beneath contempt

alfor wrote:... notable pianists ...

Unintended pun?

blast wrote:Actually I find some of these arrangements interesting. "Execrable travesty" is a quote from Girdlestone for whom they are beneath contempt

Thanks to Google I now know what you mean.

As we nowadays have the original scores easily at hand, we are not at risk
to take Huber's transcriptions for original Rameau (with only some ocatve doupling, etc.).
So - if we like to - we can enjoy them quasi as works of their own (as many of us do
e.g. with Godowsky's, Sorabji's or Friedman's transcriptions.)

For those who aren't aware, Alkan has a new exponent on record with the extremely talented Japanese pianist Yui Morishita.
He has just released his first disk devoted to the composer, which includes what I believe is the first professional, studio-quality recording of the diabolical Scherzo Focoso, Op. 34 (notwithstanding Lloyd Buck's recital recording, on the Amemptos label, which is below par sound-wise).

The introductory note is written by respected Alkan champion Jack Gibbons.

Interested parties will find current details here, but it will presumably become available via iTunes/Spotify/other download channels before too long:
http://amzn.to/1MAUgBY

4c

4candles wrote:For those who aren't aware, Alkan has a new exponent on record with the extremely talented Japanese pianist Yui Morishita.
He has just released his first disk devoted to the composer, which includes what I believe is the first professional, studio-quality recording of the diabolical Scherzo Focoso, Op. 34

Wrong place, I know, but there is a YouTube clip of him playing this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DqdOqP75Q0

Diabolical is very apt, methinks...

Regards
Fred