Henry Cotter Nixon Piano Trio No.1

Started by Alan Howe, Friday 16 November 2012, 17:28

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Mark Thomas

Oh, very interesting indeed. Definitely one to write to Santa about.

edurban

Interesting excepts...I particularly liked the hymn tune 2nd movement.  The 1st mvnt excerpt left me humming the Wanderer Fantasy, for some reason :).

More for Santa!

David

Gareth Vaughan

Absolutely fascinating. Straight to the top of the Christmas list.

eschiss1

hrm. alas while we have music by his father Henry George Nixon @IMSLP, whose fourth son Henry Cotter was, not yet anything by HC Nixon scanned&uploaded there. Good to have the Guild CD that said :)

jerfilm

the trio is now available as a separate download from Amazon.com

Jerry

Alan Howe

I've gone off the piece - it is awfully loooong...

Mark Thomas

I quite like Nixon's material, it is memorable and appropriate to the medium, but it's also repeated ad nauseam because, as Alan says, each movement is spun out to a laughable degree. There's a good 25 minute Trio there, being smothered by Nixon's 47 minute behemoth.

Gareth Vaughan

I agree. Doesn't know when to stop. A pity, because the material is pretty good - just over-used. Generally, I'm not in favour of cuts, but here they would have been beneficial.

jerfilm

All true, gentlemen, but for less than US$4, it's sure worth a listen..... 8) 8) 8)