Kimberly Marshall and Jan Ladislav Dussek

[doversoul1]

Saturday
Catherine Bott meets American organist Kimberly Marshall and introduces highlights from a concert she gave in London earlier this year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n6qw2

Works by Louis Marchand, Arnolt Schlick, and Bach (J.S.)

Sunday
Jan Ladislav Dussek was a Bohemian composer and pianist of the late 18th Century. He was the first great touring piano virtuoso paving the way for the likes of Franz Liszt. It was Dussek who first thought of playing the piano sideways on to the audience - the better to show off his noble profile.
Lucie Skeaping looks back on his life and music - much of which seems to anticipate the innovations and ideas of Beethoven and Schubert

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n6r0b

One of the performers is Andreas Staier. I hope he is playing some interesting early piano.

[Frances_iom]

I hope that Catherine Bott also reads other posts in this sub forum - an excellent programme with Dr Marshall - I realise that Wright has pronounced an anathema on organ recitals unless a la mode Liberace but as Dr Marshall pointed out organs go back 2 millenia and much music predates Bach by several centuries - why then do we hear so little - though I would not want to do CB or her copresenter out of a job but judging from Dr Marshall's intros + conversation she would make an excellent guest presenter on any programme devoted to early organ music

[LeMartinPecheur]

[T]hough I would not want to do CB or her copresenter out of a job but judging from Dr Marshall's intros + conversation she would make an excellent guest presenter on any programme devoted to early organ music

And she could play a bit too...most entertaining!

Getting to be too many star organists called Marshall though??

[doversoul1]

Please, Dr Marshall, could you issue your performance on CDs? All these, including The First Printed Organ Music, only as download.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/search.php?searchString=Kimberly+Marshall+

[ardcarp]

but judging from Dr Marshall's intros + conversation she would make an excellent guest presenter on any programme devoted to early organ music

...about one gig every ten years then!

The stuff about Marchand was interesting.

[decantor]

(Only just noticed this thread)........ Yes, this programme was excellent sauce for my Saturday lunch. Both Marchand and Schlick were fascinating: such pure music, innocent but not naive.

It brought to mind the time, 30-odd years past, when an organist colleague had a bound volume of such music, which he would leave on the bench for me to toy with if ever I had time for the organ. When he retired, he took the volume with him, of course. The only title I could recall last weekend was Estampie, coupled with Robertsbridge (which, wearing a different hat, I associated with cricket bats - hence the recollection). So I googled it, and whooped with joy to find this --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QF4BCKYZxc --- such muscular music that I always felt it should be played with fists rather than fingers.

So where could I buy a score? In the comments under the YouTube video was the answer, though (alas!) it appears to be available only in USA at vast expense ($48.75). But it brought me full circle: who had edited the edition but........ Kimberley Marshall!

[David-G]

No comments on Dussek? I enjoyed Sunday's programme very much; both the music itself, and the context as presented by Lucie Skeaping. I am amazed that I have never been consciously aware of the existence of this composer. I am now minded to acquire the Andreas Staier CDs so that I can listen to Dussek more extensively. Does anyone know if there was any relation between Dussek the composer and Mozart's Prague friends the Dusseks?

[ardcarp]

Dussek. One of the 'greats' who was unfortunate enough to be contemporaneous with even greater 'greats'. Indeed a lovely programme.

I am often disappointed that The Early Music Show section of this Forum (despite doversoul's sterling efforts) does not elicit the same volume of correspondence as , say, The Choir. But it's clearly such a damn good programme...with ditto presenters...that everyone's totally satisfied with it and feels comment to be unnecessary!

[doversoul1]

ardcarp

But it's clearly such a damn good programme...with ditto presenters...that everyone's totally satisfied with it and feels comment to be unnecessary!

No news is good news? Let’s hope the lack of replies won’t make ff think the board is not worth keeping.

[David-G]

Dussek. One of the 'greats' who was unfortunate enough to be contemporaneous with even greater 'greats'. Indeed a lovely programme.

It's interesting though to compare Dussek's reputation with others who were unfortunate enough to be contemporaneous with even greater 'greats'. A couple of weeks ago "Composer of the Week" featured Chopin and Field. I only heard small bits of these programmes - so this may not be a fair comment, in which case forgive me - but my impression is that Dussek is a much more interesting composer than Field. But Field is "well known" - or at least, I have heard of him, and CoW features him - while I had never even heard of Dussek. Maybe if Dussek had invented the Nocturne, their reputations would be reversed.