Raff Sinfonietta/Schreck Nonet/Jadassohn Sinfonietta

[Alan Howe]

Forthcoming from cpo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XaDK301ibE

[Mark Thomas]

Terrific! The only commercial recording now available of Raff's Sinfonietta dates from 1981 and is on an ancient Tudor CD coupled with the 11th Symphony, so a replacement is badly needed. The Jadassohn seems to be a recording premiere. Is the Schreck a different version of the Nonet for wind and strings available in our Downloads Board here I wonder? I see the one on the CD is his Op.40, the score for which is at IMSLP as a wind-only Nonet.

[Alan Howe]

Yes, very good news indeed - and a terrific CD all-round, I'd say.

[Gareth Vaughan]

As as far as I can make out the Jadassohn is actually a Suite that exists in 3 different versions: 1. for piano; 2 for violin and piano (I think... could be wrong), and 3. for wind decet. Interesting. I can't answer Mark's question about the Schreck, alas.

[TerraEpon]

Hmmm, still waiting on this one, had the YT video bookmarked since this post.. But I suppose given it's CPO it's not surprising it's not out yet.

[eschiss1]

Hope their notes have a lot of information about that composer and his works, about whom I think I've turned up very little...

[eschiss1]

The nonet op.40, skimming the parts @ IMSLP, is in E: after its first movement's slow introduction in E minor, a theme in E major follows immediately. The nonet for winds and strings, after its slow introduction pauses, follows with a theme in minor (though it turns quickly to major- but the theme is definitely different, as the whole piece up to that point has been.) Not the same work!

[eschiss1]

btw Schreck was (along with an ensemble he directed) the dedicatee of Reger's Geistliche Gesänge op.110.