![]() ![]() Josef Pasternack, conductor / available for free streaming on YouTube by clicking on titles above The Nightingale / Feodor Chaliapin, bass unidentified pianist / Pilgrim’s Song / Feodor Chaliapin, bass Alexander Schmidt, violinist Orch., Rosario Bourdon, conductor / Don Juan’s Serenade / Nicolai Gedda, tenor Erik Werba, pianist / None But a Lonely Heart / Rosa Ponselle, mezzo-soprano Igor Chicagov, pianist / Pourquoi? / Enrico Caruso, tenor Victor Orch. TCHAIKOVSKY: Can It Be Day? Not a Word, My Friend / Rosalind Plowright, mezzo-soprano Philip Mountford, pianist / Disenchantment. I find her music far more substantial and better constructed than that of the vastly overrated Kaja Saariaho, and these works are superb examples of her discursive musical mind. In my humble opinion, Outi Tarkiainen is a great musical genius. Into the Woodland Silence */ Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano Emil Holstrom, pianist *Lauri Sallinen, clarinetist *Markus Hohti, cellist / …Ja Alkoivat Laulaa (…And They Began to Sing) / Veli Kojala, accordionist / Sans Paroles / Lauri Sallinen, clarinetist / Thy Words, Submerged in Stone / Markus Hohti, cellist / Trois Poemes / Kamus String Quartet / Until the Stone Splits / Maria Puusaari, violinist / Alba 415 or available for free streaming in small bits on YouTube His entertaining music is very jazz-based in places, particularly in the Blues from Novelettes (played with surprisingly good slow-drag phrasing by Gieseking) and the Piano Sonatina No. Russian-born Alexandre Tansman moved to Paris in the 1920s and became one of the more popular of “French” composers of the 1920s through the ‘40s. Charleston: Molto vivo / Daniel Blumenthal, pianist / Part of Etcetera 2021 or available for free streaming on YouTube by clicking on movement titles above TANSMAN: Novelettes: Blues / Walter Gieseking, pianist / available for free streaming on YouTube Sextuor: Ballet-Bouffe / Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Wojciech Michniewski, conductor / CPO 777987-2 TANSMAN: Bric a Brac – Ballet en 3 Tableaux. ![]() 2 & 6 / The California String Quartet / Centaur CRC 3589, also available for free streaming in small bits on YouTubeĪn outstanding recording of two unjustly neglected works by an unjustly neglected composer. ![]() These are, for me, her two finest pieces. Germaine Tailleferre, the only female member of Les Six, was a fairly good composer. TAILLEFERRE: 6 Chansons Françaises / Jane Bathori, mezzo-soprano Germaine Tailleferre, pianist / available for free streaming at Internet Archive TAILLEFERRE: Ballade for Piano & Orchestra / Florian Uhlig, pianist Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Pablo Gonzalez, conductor / part of SWR Music 19027, also available for free streaming on YouTube I still maintain that this recording of it by the New York Woodwind Quintet is the best ever made. Paul Taffanel was the late 19th century’s greatest flute virtuoso who left us a few rare recordings from the early 20th century. TAFFANEL: Quintet for Winds / New York Woodwind Quintet / available for free streaming at Internet Archive ![]()
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