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Hi Everyone,

I am wondering if anyone here has an opinion on the mostly romantic compositions notated by Rosemary Brown.  With only a small sampling of the 600+ compositions available it isn't easy to form an estimate.  I find this one to be quite interesting and of musical merit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srsRnCF4VMw

And also this one though it is more sketch-like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdPQj4pXovQ


Mvh,
Michael

One work by Busoni that doesn't get much attention, and which is quite tremendous in my opinion, is the Anton Rubinstein inspired Piano Sonata Op. 20a.


Mvh,
Michael

Hi Everyone,

Here are four nocturnes on Y.T. by Tellefsen.  This is great music in my opinion - and every bit as wonderful as the nocturnes by Chopin and John Field.  The pianist, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, seems to be a tremendous interpreter of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngFD9RPfZiU

I first found out about Einar Steen-Nøkleberg through his magnificent interpretation of this little known pair of piano transcriptions by Grieg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdg5pkQT_GQ


Mvh,
Michael

I am sorry about my mistake with the link!  Usually I test all links, and here I forgot to do that.


Mvh,
Michael

Hi Semloh,

I might record several more later this year to add to the YouTube playlist.  I am thinking about including some of the long ones [30+ pages each] and also the Grande Sonate Heroique.  If this turns out to be definite then I'll revisit this thread.

The Grande Sonate Heroique was published, and the website linked below has an image of the first page.

http://www.fugue.us/N_comp_Gr_Sonata_heroique.gif


Mvh,
Michael

Hi Herbert,

There isn't any need to thank me.  I just happened to be the first starting back in 2002.  It could have been anyone.  After hearing recordings of his piano playing I was quite curious to see the compositions!


Mvh,
Michael

Hi Gareth,

What I have are several hundred pages of solo piano music, some chamber music, and part of a violin concerto including one of the cadenzas.  Some of the piano music is for a fast tempo - in particular there are a set of "Mephisto" pieces, one of which is more daunting than the hardest Liszt.

There are many thousands of pages stored in Japan that seemingly have not been viewed by anyone other than Nyiregyhazi, and which have been there for decades.  The hold up seems to have to do with the owner of those manuscripts being a different person than the one who owns the copyrights to the music.


Mvh,
Michael

Hi Sdtom and Thal,

This is romantic era music, and according to what I read at this link it fits in with this forum:

http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,3681.0.html

The very reason that Ervin Nyiregyhazi didn't allow his music to be performed was because he thought it would be criticized for being romantic style whilst he lived into and through the Age of Serialism.

The romantic spirit always shall live on, it isn't confined to a particular compositional end date, et c.


Mvh,
Michael

Hi Everyone,

I feel that Ervin Nyiregyhazi compositions are well worth a look.  I've set up a playlist at YouTube for all recordings of his music there which I have been able to find and which should give some idea of the qualities of his music.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgUUkZXeqINMpAr7DlszWCBUWIgazRM24


Mvh,
Michael