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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Friday 05 June 2015, 09:37

Title: Henning Mankell (1868-1930) PC
Post by: Alan Howe on Friday 05 June 2015, 09:37
...dating from 1917 - on the Capriccio label:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/henning-mankell-klavierkonzert-op-30/hnum/7710582 (https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/henning-mankell-klavierkonzert-op-30/hnum/7710582)
Title: Re: Henning Mankell (1868-1930) PC
Post by: Gareth Vaughan on Friday 05 June 2015, 11:50
The Henning Mankell PC will be thoroughly enjoyable, but I don't know what Nystroem's music is like.
Title: Re: Henning Mankell (1868-1930) PC
Post by: eschiss1 on Friday 05 June 2015, 13:30
some of it's been available in the downloads section here... though the link we had to the 1960 premiere of the Concerto ricercante is now invalid. (It's not on YouTube, but his about contemporary Sinfonia seria (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR0IBDHyjvc) is.)

(EDIT. Since it was unclear: I was referring to the Nystroem works. The Concerto ricercante, 1959, premiered 1960; his "about contemporary" (i.e.: with the concerto) Sinfonia "no.5" seria.)
Title: Re: Henning Mankell (1868-1930) PC
Post by: Alan Howe on Friday 05 June 2015, 16:58
The PC can be heard on YouTube - in a different performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gto1OTZVj5g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gto1OTZVj5g)
Title: Re: Henning Mankell (1868-1930) PC
Post by: Gareth Vaughan on Friday 05 June 2015, 19:17
I know the Mankell is on Youtube, thanks - and have enjoyed listening to it. It's the Nystroem I'm worried about.
Title: Re: Henning Mankell (1868-1930) PC
Post by: Alan Howe on Friday 05 June 2015, 21:20
I'll be buying the CD anyway. If the Nystroem's any good, it'll be a bonus.
Title: Re: Henning Mankell (1868-1930) PC
Post by: Gareth Vaughan on Friday 05 June 2015, 22:26
I shall probably do the same.
Title: Re: Henning Mankell (1868-1930) PC
Post by: britishcomposer on Friday 05 June 2015, 22:46
If anyone is interested in the historic Swedish radio broadcast of the Nystroem please send me a PM. Though I like most of Nystroem's work I found this rather dry. He is perhaps comparable to Arthur Honegger. So he doesn't fit here.
Title: Re: Henning Mankell (1868-1930) PC
Post by: eschiss1 on Saturday 06 June 2015, 00:57
It is among Nystroem's later works (1959) as already noted above!! (And while the concerto ricercante isn't on YouTube, several works he composed around the same time are- presumably in around the same style and hence indicative of whether the potential buyer might enjoy the piece... which was my point in mentioning the Sinfonia seria...)
Title: Re: Henning Mankell (1868-1930) PC
Post by: Gareth Vaughan on Saturday 06 June 2015, 08:15
Thanks, Eric. Have listened to the Sinfonia serial. It is, to my ear, a bit on the dull side. Not really my cup of tea.