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Hello Gentlemen,

Read with interest what you wrote about Wooldridge.
I found the work below at this site:  http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Name/David-Wooldridge/Composer/13209-1

Diversions (3), Op. 41 by David Wooldridge
Performer:  John Graham (Viola)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1982

In Dutch, the vocal 'y' differs from the double vocal 'ij'.  The sound is the same though, and the 'y' originally was not included in the 'abc'.
That the name of Preyer, has also been found as Preijer, is most probably caused by the writing of a dutch clerk.
Nowadays it is more often the opposite way: using 'y' for 'ij'. In the esarler dictionaries the entry was just before the 'z'. Now you find there  it under 'i'.

How about the Requiem of Osip Kozlovsky opposite to Verdi's?
Kozlovsky wrote it at the end of the 18th century (1798 to be exact), but IMHO quite an early romantic feel.
http://youtu.be/Ik8ktuRwIRo

Sorry Mark and Alan, but for me you downgraded Unsung Composers from a broad glancing forum into a far less interesting one. Maybe you'd better changed the name into Unsung Romantics, for now you've excluded many great unsung composers.
I'm not sure I have much to offer now to the members, as many works in my collection are apparently too modern.
I love the romantics, let there be no doubt, but it never stopped me from looking over the boundaries, finding there so many beautiful, maybe sometimes more difficult, music. And that was precisely what I found in the 'old' UC.
Only good thing: you left everything in an 'Archive' area, I thank you for that.
I hope UC in its renewed form will still be of interest for many.

Best regards,


Elroel

Hello everybody,

Just arrived back home after two weeks holidays.

Amphissa asked about EH Meyer in combination with a Nova record.
I was wrong when I told it's from 8 85 136. It is actually from 8 85 134.

I'll correct the doenload

Sorry,


Elroel

Hi everybody,

Just want to tell you that I will be away the next two weeks, and not having internet connection,
answering messages will have to wait.

Cheers,

Elroel

Hi everybody,

This moment I corrected the 2nd link to Trojan's Spalicek.

Sorry for this mistake. 'Thick finger work' i guess: took the next file form the folder


Sorry

Elroel

minacciosa asked what piano piece was on the file next to the poem.

I deleted the old files and linked it to a new file, with the Poem only.
The piano piece was released on cd (Berlin Classics).
This work was on the same side as the Poem and I simply forgot to delete it from the file.

Sorry,


Elroel

A little late reaction on this.
I myself work with FORMAT FACTORY, which is a free program and can change many sorts of files, but apart  from music files it also works with video formats and pictures.

So far it never let me down (over a year now)

Thanks Arbuckle, for the Abbiate pieces.
So far I heard a couple of piano works of his, but never the Cello Cto. He was a great cello player in his time. He received the diploma's from Turin (Italy) Music School and later again from the Conservatoire de Paris. When played for the first time in Paris, they knocked down this concerto. I can not apprehend why, because for me it is a very pleasant concerto. Must have been that they found it not modern enough?
His 'Méthode de Violoncelle' is, if I can believe the Internet, still available at Boosey.com ($ 72.00)
I look forward for any of his cello pieces, if anyone has any.
May be we should ask Pieter Wispelwey to give it a chance by recording some of it.
Dolmetsch Online considers him being an Italian(!) composer, for what it's worth.

Elroel

Hi all,

I was informed that you had problems with downloading Cilensek's Symphony.

The link is re-newed and it now goes like it should

Sorry for the inconvenience

Elroel

First of all, Mark and Alan should be very proud that their site seems to have grown into a "portal" for unsung composers. But that is not what they had in mind when they started this: unsung romantics.
We, especially many new members, see this site as a carriage way to promote (do we?), at least on a member-to-member basis, all unsung composers. Unsungs from  a later period as well. Mark and Alan were to polite to stop us in posting also (more) modern works.
On the one hand it is simple to resolve: only unsung romantic composers are allowed in the future.
But on the other hand it is far too easy to do so, simply because of the value of this great site. Mark and Alan are aware of that, otherwise they would have simply gone back to the start.
Although Mark doesn't like the idea of more moderators (for the sake of legal matters mostly, I think) that is in my opinion the way to go, if the style of UC as it is now, is to be maintained.

Where all over the internet, you have to pay for almost anything, this site is free of that. Only it costs Mark some money and Mark and Alan quite a bit of time they really like to spent on their love: fishing in the sea of music history for composers and their creations, so badly treated by the music ndustry on all facets, and not in the last place: to share it with others, as well as sharing their music.

Creating a sister-site, or even more of that kind, for non/late/neo-romantics is a possibility, as other members already suggested.

The sister-sites could be maintained by other moderators, but as a whole there should be a connection between the sites. A kind of umbrella where you can see what's posted where. A little in manner we do now with the indexes. And not to forget: keeping the same standards high!!
You could choose names for those sister-sites as Unsung composers Romantic Period, Unsung Composers Since 1890 or so.
This umbrella doesn't cost the moderators time or money I think, but it will, with the right method, help all of us in choosing. Though, I'm certain that I'll eat from both/all walls, as my interest lies in the music from Beethoven upto many to-days composers.
A moderator must have the power to replace a post if necessary. (but that's not new).


I like to help if I may and can.

It's a bit little exaggerated, I know, but I  can't do without UC in the near future.

Regards to all of you,

Roelof

[Johan Wagenaar]

So far I didn't see Johan Wagenaar mentioned, if I'm right. There is a Storm chorus in part II of the comic cantata The Shipwreck (1889) and he used storm instruments as well.
I remembered having this lp after all the heavy weather you offered. The lp is from a very obscure (at least to me) Dutch label. If not on cd I'll post this

Elroel

As Echiss1 mentioned, there was a recording on Philips back in the 1960s. Later, probably in the 1970s a number of Philips recordings were re-issued on the Fontana label. (a budget label)
On side 2 of Nº6530 044 you find two overtures by Johan Wagenaar: Cyrano, op 23 and De getemde feeks (The tamed shrew), op 25
It is played by the Residentie Orkest  (of The Hague) with Willem van Otterloo conducting.

On the a-side are Peter van Anrooy's 'Piet Hein' (Dutch Rhapsody). This is based on a very well known  song about the lieutenant-admiral of the Dutch fleet, who lived from 1577-1629).
The same orchestra here, but now with Antal Doráti as conductor
Hendrik Andriessen's Variations on a Theme of Johann Kuhnau is other work. Same orchestra, but again with Van Otterloo.

I'm not sure if these performances ever made it to cd, but if someone is interested in these pieces, I'll find out and event. post them

Elroel

Fiser: 15 Pages & Klusák: Invence I
Jasthill asked for the two other works from this lp. I had to make sure(?) that they weren't made available on cd. I thought I had seen at least 15 Pages somewhere.
As you already might have found out: in the meantime they were posted in the Czech folder

I'm sorry I didn't respond quicker, but I was very busy with other things and also been away for a few days.
Greetz

Elroel