Your finds of 2014

[Gauk]

So many finds in 2014 - it used to be one was lucky to discover one unfamiliar composer a year - now it is more like one a week.

To single out one, I would pick the piano concerto by Nicholas Tcherepnin. I have long been familiar with the piano concertos of his better-known son (especially the second, which I love), but coming across one by the father was a surprise. It is a striking work, in one movement (resembling the Rimsky-Korsakov concerto in that respect), with a pretty strenuous piano part.

I clipped off the opening phrase and uploaded it to my phone so it plays when a text message arrives. So if you can recognise that pgrase, and you suddenly hear it in a train or somewhere, you know who is in the vicinity, c'est moi.

[Aramiarz]

Where is the Tcherepnin's concert??

[Gauk]

Where is the Tcherepnin's concert??

Part one is here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xjjt_vUcCE and it links to the second part.

[sdtom]

http://sdtom.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/minnesota-orchestra-showcase-99-special/

I found quite an exciting batch of CD's at a thrift store for $.99 each and this was one of them. Of special interest to me was the Deems Taylor work which is included as an audio clip.
Tom

[semloh]

The paucity of responses to the original question - re the best finds of 2014 - has been very disappointing. I really thought members' discoveries would be flooding in. Oh well, shows what I know! 

[Ilja]

Maybe I should add that for me personally, there have been a few highlights: the Moszkowski Op. 3 concerto was one, the Oswald (so many people have been praising the Napoleão, but I really think the Oswald is the superior concerto on that disc by some margin) was another. Furthermore, this year was the first I got to hear the Gernsheim A major quartet for the first in a live performance. That alone made my year.

[eschiss1]

I recall I made some good musical finds (for myself; not all unsung or unknown, except in some sense "to me") in 2014 but they (mostly?) didn't fall (even glancingly) within the remit of this group.

[Alan Howe]

Any that did, Eric?

[eschiss1]

Hrm. Finally-getting-around-to listening to Gernsheim violin sonatas (bought in 2013 as download from Amazon, I wonder if the (1 or 2) ms. violin sonatas in the Gernsheim archive are performable and worth someone's recording too...); some quite good things from Steve's Bedroom Band but those are not, as strictly defined, recordings (but still, often enough striking enough music that I envy the above poster who got to hear the A major Gernsheim quartet (no.5) live)... 

(also some MIDIs of chamber works by Bertini (e.g. his 3rd violin sonata, etc.) - good enough works that I do want to hear more of his music actually recorded- but that's a discovery that, in itself, I'd probably have to put back in 2013, when I started noticing his music.

(I'd want to include Czerny's 5th symphony, 1st movement- from a video of just that movement by the Virtuosi of Houston- but it seems iTunes is telling me I have only listened to the mp3 I "extracted" from that once (so far), on January 9th of this year- so a find of 2015 it will have to be. Hrm. ... I feel like there was more in 2014 that qualifies here - not coming to mind though, except for memorable performances of works that weren't themselves new to me (like Taneev's piano quartet, and there were a gladdening number of others).

[Alan Howe]

Thanks!

[Revilod]

Oswald's Piano Concerto. I can't stop playing it!

[Gauk]

Most of my listening is 20th century, but one very unfamiliar work I have played several times with enjoyment, and might find approval here, is the 4th symphony in E flat minor of Joseph Ryelandt, "Credo", which, as you might expect from the title, is a choral work, the finale of which is a setting of the credo from the Latin mass. It was composed in 1912, and can be described as late Romantic in character: dramatic, expansive, impassioned. I look forward to hearing more of his music. I see that the last time his symphonies were mentioned on this board was in 2011, so he may be an unfamiliar figure to some posters.

[semloh]

Revilod - I enjoy everything I've heard by Oswald, and am re-visiting the Piano Concerto after reading your note! Lovely, late romantic music. 

[eschiss1]

re Oswald I'm looking over a list of items and am wondering if his piano quintet (pub. in the 1930s and in the collection, I think, of the Free Library of Philadelphia? I'll double-check) has been recorded?

[ncouton]

My major 2014 discovery is... an incredible German post-romantic symphony, never recorded...

I'd like so much to record it one day that I'm afraid to share this discovery in public...