Nicodé's "Gloria!" finally online at klassik-resampled.de!!!

[Alan Howe]

Marvellous - thanks!

Would it be possible for me to contact them also in order to offer my support?

[Wheesht]

Absolutely, I'll PM you later.

[Alan Howe]

Very kind.

[tpaloj]

Fantastic news!

[Alan Howe]

Does anyone have any further news about this project?

Erm, I hate to mention it, but I've just tried the first section in the computer generated version on YouTube (again), and I'm wondering whether this is the most spectacular musical 'weisse(r) Elefant' ever composed. Now shoot me down (metaphorically speaking)...

[Ilja]

I won't. Gloria dwarfs anything by Lachner in terms of self-indulgence. To paraphrase Carl Sagan, great ambitions require great execution, but there's far to little of the latter to justify the former. Das Meer is already stretching artistic believability, but it's tolerable (and musically more interesting than Gloria). However, from the rest of Nicodé's oeuvre it's clear that his strength lay in much more concise works. 

[Alan Howe]

Here's the YouTube rendering of the first movement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CgmdQQwk3w