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Without actually looking at the score at all -- I don't actually know the piece -- I'm going to guess that the first movement is a sonata form, the second movement is either a sonata form or a theme and variations, the third movement is a menuet-trio form (two rounded-binary forms, one nested within...

My knowledge of the discographies of Kondrashin, Leinsdorf, Mravinsky, Rozhdestvensky, Gergiev, Solti, Karajan, Ansermet, Klemperer, Kleiber (C and E), and Szell would lead me to conclude that none of these conductors made commercial recordings of any works by VL. It's possible that there are radio ...

Opening night at the Metropolitan Opera, streamed live from Metopera.org. Donizetti's Anna Bolena is about to start.

--Sixtus

The Rozhdestvensky recording of the Mahler version of Bruckner 4 is available as a free download, if you dare to sign up for one of those risky download sites. As far as I know, the score has never been published. It isn't even mentioned at the Mahler Gesellschaft list of upcoming Mahler critical ed...

Wagner Die Feen, an early opera. Definitely shows his roots in Weber.

--Sixtus

PS: Listening to webcast feed from "Swiss Radio's" opera channel, a source for LOTS of little-known operas (often deservedly so):
http://www.swissradio.ch/menu/discograp ... /index.htm

Seems to me that unless it had been published before 1923 this piece not be uploadable, Schulhoff having died in 1944 in a Nazi concentration camp. All of Schulhoff already at IMSLP is TB (totally blocked).

--Sixtus

coulonnus wrote:But why do you recommend the Erato site instead of that present on imslp?

Because the erato link was where the PDF file that you get when you press the down-arrow link in the IMSLP listing comes from. Didn't actually notice that it wasn't IMSLP directly.

--Sixtus

The melody itself is at least as old as Faure, who arranged it for voice and piano (see IMSLP link below), so the melody is PD. The arrangement/harmonization from icking dates from 2002 however. Feel free to use the Faure arrangement as you please. --Sixtus http://erato.uvt.nl/files/imglnks/usimg/b/...

Sunday night, September 11. NY Philharmonic conducted by music director Alan Gilbert, Mahler Symphony 2, live-on-tape broadcast on PBS. This was a special non-subscription performance in honor of 9/11, with free tickets I believe. This likely explains why significant numbers of the audience erupt in...

Speeding up during a piece of music is a special and surprisingly rare device. It is generally reserved by composers for special moments. Which of these moments are favorites of yours? I'm setting the following criteria for selection: 1. the acceleration MUST be EXPLICITLY called for in the score ei...

Root-5th-octave are also the first three pitches of Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra (explicitly sounded by the trumpet) and they make up the full chord played at the fff ending of the first half of the piece. So it was a Nietzschean power chord way before rock music.

--Sixtus

Another example is the very fine 1982 recording of Haydn's Creation from the hall of its first performance, at the 'Old University' in Vienna - conducted by Gustav Kuhn. The Kuhn recording is available on video, I think, as is Gardiner's recording of the Symphonie fantastique, itself a must-see. If...

Good luck trying to find a score to buy. I had to get my study score via eBay, back when there seemed to be many such items for sale. Oxford University Press in the UK only lists scores and parts for rental. The situation is even worse for RVW's "Job", a fabulously scored piece that used t...

The only tie over a repeat in the "Oxford" edition is the upbeat to the very first bar. It is obvious by how it is notated that on the repeat that you simply go from the D in the first ending to the F# 8th note in the first bar. You lose the syncopation effect but it is reestablished quick...

There are 3 obvious reasons: 1. the acoustics of Gothic-cathedral-like spaces are similar enough that recording in one will sound pretty much like any other, assuming a similar, if not identical, geometrical configuration of the walls and ceiling. There'd be a sonic difference between a cathedral an...