tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post6571302035687204774..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Very great composers still without recognition?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-43782980373259420432014-05-06T22:41:04.816+01:002014-05-06T22:41:04.816+01:00Now the Concerto for 2 Cellos and Orchestra has be...Now the Concerto for 2 Cellos and Orchestra has been recorded TWICE. Before these two were released in the spring of 2014 there had never been a recording. And the one on Hungariton includes the very first recording of the Concerto No 2 for Cello and Orchestra, the very one that Casals used for his Vienna debut in 1906. I adore this music and I honestly feel that Moor had something special to say.vcsamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11601609996901858651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-44283277917246867442008-08-05T08:27:00.000+01:002008-08-05T08:27:00.000+01:00Jim, can you let us know what you find out about E...Jim, can you let us know what you find out about Emanuel Moór? - a lot of readers are interested.<BR/><BR/>Thanks.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-21881212409797842462008-08-05T01:47:00.000+01:002008-08-05T01:47:00.000+01:00That's a tantalizing quote, especially since I com...That's a tantalizing quote, especially since I completely agree with him about Julius Roentgen. If JR didn't do much to advance music, he created some beautiful works in traditional styles -- making him more of a Mendelssohn than a Beethoven, but isn't that good enough? I'd especially recommend the KOCH disc of his two-piano works and the NM Classics disc with his 1930 Symphonie.<BR/><BR/>So given my love of Roentgen, and the fact that I've liked the two Tovey pieces I've heard so far, I've got to investigate Moór, who's a completely new name to me. Thanks!<BR/><BR/>-Jim Moskowitz<BR/>The Unknown Composers Page<BR/>http://kith.org/jimmosk<BR/><BR/>P.S. For some reason blogger.com seems to be garbling my livejournal account name, giving it a hyphen instead of the underscore I'm actually typing into the 'identity' field, just FYI.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-14028879638284848252008-07-30T14:32:00.000+01:002008-07-30T14:32:00.000+01:00Not completely forgotten new music, but I am intri...Not completely forgotten new music, but I am intrigued that Yakov Kreizberg and the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington)will be devoting the second half of a program to Franz Schmidt's Symphony No. 4 in C major this coming autumn. Fairly recently, I admired the work on a recording.<BR/><BR/>(Last night, I listened to a less than fine recording of the Prokofiev Symphony #2 [1924], under Rostropovich, and wondered whether I would ever hear that work in concert. I would like to.)Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-56426825191057337982008-07-30T05:29:00.000+01:002008-07-30T05:29:00.000+01:00I recall that a CD of Moor's cello sonatas (three ...I recall that a CD of Moor's cello sonatas (three I think, or two sonatas and a couple of pieces) was released a few months ago. I remember taking it from the New Releases section at WHRB. I recall being unsurprised that Moór wasn't better-known. The sonatas struck me as being quite good, and quite grounded in romanticism; but lacking in a sometimes-dissonant, brooding quality of the big contemporary symphonists: Mahler, Strauss, Nielsen. Not to say that cello sonatas need have that quality; but as the only music of his I've listened to it's the only thing I have to go on. Anyway, there are examples abound of great composers born in 186x/187x whose music wasn't "modern" enough to be brought into the fold: Moór ranks among them. (Ludwig Thuille and Kurt Atterberg I would say are further examples).<BR/><BR/>As for Tovey, his cello sonata and solo suite have failed to move me. I vaguely recall commenting "rubbish" on the CD insert, next to the solo suite.<BR/><BR/>Oh, I managed to find that Moór CD online:<BR/><BR/>http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7602850/a/Mo%F3r:+Sonatas+For+Cello+And+Piano+%2F+Szab%F3,+Krausz.htmrhapsody407https://www.blogger.com/profile/16782680590749008969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-70541901223308243202008-07-29T19:20:00.000+01:002008-07-29T19:20:00.000+01:00YouTube yields this performance of Röntgen's Kommt...YouTube yields this performance of Röntgen's <I>Kommt her zu mir alls</I> - <BR/><BR/>http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=owePFhHehVUPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-72753309661988772502008-07-29T18:32:00.000+01:002008-07-29T18:32:00.000+01:00After hearing Casals' performance of Röntgen's Cel...After hearing Casals' performance of Röntgen's Cello Sonata, Grieg wrote: <I>'This man does not perform, he resuscitates.'</I>Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com