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by HonkyTonk
Tue Mar 21, 2017 11:26 pm
Forum: Score Requests
Topic: Kate Loder -- Piano Music
Replies: 8
Views: 6053

Re: Kate Loder -- Piano Music

I'd never heard of this composer before. I guessed she must be related to Edward Loder who wrote the opera "Raymond and Agnes" and a search on the web proved that this was the case. What is even more intriguing is that she is credited with having written an opera called "L'elisir d'am...
by HonkyTonk
Tue Mar 21, 2017 1:49 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Faure 4th Nocturne - misprints?
Replies: 4
Views: 5699

Re: Faure 4th Nocturne - misprints?

Thanks for the reply. However the "a" which appears as the last note of the 8va indication should surely be a flat in order to correspond with the passage at the end of the bar? I have a very old copy (falling to bits!) of the first 8 nocturnes that was once owned by Howard Ferguson. Altho...
by HonkyTonk
Thu Mar 16, 2017 12:19 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Faure 4th Nocturne - misprints?
Replies: 4
Views: 5699

Faure 4th Nocturne - misprints?

The edition I use is the same as that available for download on this site and I'm wondering if anybody has a more recent edition where any misprints have been corrected. In the penultimate bar of the third page should the "d"s and "a"s in the descending right hand passage revert ...
by HonkyTonk
Fri Feb 24, 2017 8:03 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Tune identification needed
Replies: 0
Views: 4802

Tune identification needed

I was watching a dvd the other night (Kojak!) and heard a tune played in the background which I knew very well but not its title. No web tune identifier was any help (I suspect it's still copyright) but I guess it's a French waltz . Can anyone identify it if I give the notes (lower case= crotchets. ...
by HonkyTonk
Fri Feb 24, 2017 7:47 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Right Hand only piano solos
Replies: 2
Views: 7231

Re: Right Hand only piano solos

One of Richard Rodney Bennett's Studies (It was recorded by Cherkassky) is for Right Hand alone.
by HonkyTonk
Wed Sep 07, 2016 10:19 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Postal Charges
Replies: 1
Views: 12617

Postal Charges

I've purchased a few of the Performer's Reprints editions (published in association with IMSLP) from Amazon UK and went to the website of the edition to see if anything was of interest to me. Sure enough there were a lot of things there that I would like to purchase but the lowest quote for shipping...
by HonkyTonk
Mon May 12, 2014 10:01 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Questions about Le Tombeau de Couperin
Replies: 3
Views: 5901

Re: Questions about Le Tombeau de Couperin

I don't play this piece, but it looks possible to play the accompanying notes of the first three quaver beats with the left hand, using the the thumb on the awkward chord in the r.h. and changing to 2 at the bottom of the last chord in the bar and playing the following e with the thumb . Of course t...
by HonkyTonk
Mon May 12, 2014 4:40 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Beethoven Variations op.34
Replies: 1
Views: 3457

Beethoven Variations op.34

I have been looking at the composer's manuscript (reproduced at this site) and was surprised to see that the 3rd variation has what certainly seems to be an "alla breve" sign at the beginning. None of the older editions that I know give this and I was wondering if any of the more recent Ur...
by HonkyTonk
Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:18 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Cherkassky/Petrouchka
Replies: 2
Views: 14684

Re: Cherkassky/Petrouchka

I didn't know that and it's very interesting but I think the version issued commercially was a studio recording. I imagine the conductor would have had to have been rather more famous than Bryan Balkwill in order to attract buyers to a recording as I don't think that Cherkassky's presence alone was ...
by HonkyTonk
Sun Feb 23, 2014 3:58 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Cherkassky/Petrouchka
Replies: 2
Views: 14684

Cherkassky/Petrouchka

Shura Cherkassky made several recordings of Stravinsky's piano solo transcription of the Petrouchka ballet but there was a recording in the days of vinyl (available,as I recall in the 1960s) in which he played the concertante piano part in the orchestral score. Does anybody know with which orchestra...
by HonkyTonk
Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:44 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Franz Bendel's Op.14
Replies: 2
Views: 2172

Franz Bendel's Op.14

This work purports to be based on three "favourite" pieces by Mozart. I certainly don't recognise the originals of any of them. Does anybody know on what Mozart works Bendel based this opus, or is it just a charming pastiche passed off as an arrangement of originals in the same way as Krei...
by HonkyTonk
Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:33 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Who rewrote Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto?
Replies: 2
Views: 3071

Re: Who rewrote Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto?

I can't help with what the editors of the forthcoming edition require, but it's interesting that Sapelnikoff, who played the work with Tchaikovsky conducting, recorded the work in the 1920s and performed it in the form that is usually played. This doesn't necessarily prove, of course, that he used t...
by HonkyTonk
Mon Jun 24, 2013 4:25 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Beethoven's metronome markings
Replies: 6
Views: 5775

Re: Beethoven's metronome markings

Thanks for the links. The first one seems to be just the sort of thing I was looking for.
by HonkyTonk
Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:00 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Beethoven's metronome markings
Replies: 6
Views: 5775

Beethoven's metronome markings

Could anybody help by telling me all the works that Beethoven added metronome markings to or direct me to a web article which lists them?
by HonkyTonk
Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:56 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Need help finding a certain Hungarian piano piece
Replies: 3
Views: 5379

Re: Need help finding a certain Hungarian piano piece

So little to go on! Could it be that the composer isn't Hungarian? If so, I'll make a tentative suggestion that it might be Smetana's "Peasant festival" (sometimes the original title is translated as something else, "Harvest Home" being another translation ) which is a fairly dif...