Cornucopia from Steve's Bedroom Band

[Mark Thomas]

The indefatigable Steve and his Bedroom Band (clones of Steve I believe!) has added a whole raft of potentially juicy string chamber works to his listing at IMSLP which are new to me at least:

Brandts-Buys: String Sextet, String Quartet
Gernsheim: In Memoriam for string orchestra and organ, String Quintet, String Quartet No3
Herrmann Grädener: String Quartet No.2
Carl Helsted: String Quartet
Mielck: String Quartet
Novacek: String Quartet

There may also be other new recordings of composers who don't particularly interest me

[britishcomposer]

Mielck and Brandts-Buys at least have been recorded before, I think. Anyway, I have off-air recordings. Esp. B-B is very beautiful!

[eschiss1]

I know of commercial recordings of almost none of those pieces but may be mistaken (composers, yes- Mielck has had a few works recorded; Grädener's father, Carl, has had one work recorded, Novacek's Perpetuum Mobile used to be pretty well-known- and I think SBB has/have recorded (has, I know, I know) 1 and a quarter Novacek quartets, and 3 of the 5 Gernsheim quartets by now (also, that's Helsted quartet no.5 I think for such as are picky)...

some of those are indeed not especially recent uploads but the Helsted, Richard von Perger no.2 (good piece), Grädener no.2, Perinello's quartet (interesting and I think also pretty good!) , Reznicek3, Rousseau, Alexanian, Gernsheim op91 more or less are... I like his work and have been following closely  

That said, I listened to his arrangement for strings of Ravel's Mother Goose suite yesterday. The last panel sounds like Ravel should have written it for strings.  Beautiful.
Eric

[eschiss1]

btw, Carl was his middle name, but he was better known as Gustav Helsted.

[Ilja]

Sorry Eric, different composer. Gustav Helsted (1857-1924) was Carl Helsted's (1818-1904) son. Carl Helsted's father Siger and his brother Edward were also composers.

[Mark Thomas]

And the Quartet recorded by Steve's Bedroom Band at IMSLP is by Gustav, the son, dating from 1920-something I think.

[eschiss1]

published or composed in 1922, Gustav's 5th quartet (unnumbered ) according to the listing at Wikipedia, if I understand right. Thanks for the clarification. I've listened to it once so far; the first two movements seem so far rather good, the second pair on a first listen a little less convincing but I think I may well warm to it too, and all four mvts. of this F minor quartet not boring in my opinion...