Brahms, Albumblatt: World premiere on 3, 21 Jan

[french frank]

From the Press Office:

"BBC Radio 3 is to broadcast the first performance of a recently discovered ‘unknown’ Brahms piano work on Saturday 21st January at 12:15pm in Music Matters presented by Tom Service.

Albumblatt, the short piece which lasts two minutes was written in 1853 when Brahms was just 20. It was found by conductor and musicologist Christopher Hogwood as he looked through a music collection in the United States.

BBC Radio 3 recorded the work for the first time with the celebrated Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff and, in what will be a global premiere, will broadcast Albumblatt as part of an interview with Christopher Hogwood about the discovery in advance of it being published in February by Barenreiter. Andras Schiff who was asked by Radio 3 to be the first to perform the piece will also be interviewed in the programme. "

[doversoul1]

From The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/13/unthinkable-lost-music-refound

P.S. What do ‘rediscovered’ and ‘refound’ mean exactly?

[makropulos]

From the Press Office:

"BBC Radio 3 is to broadcast the first performance of a recently discovered ‘unknown’ Brahms piano work on Saturday 21st January at 12:15pm in Music Matters presented by Tom Service.

Albumblatt, the short piece which lasts two minutes was written in 1853 when Brahms was just 20. It was found by conductor and musicologist Christopher Hogwood as he looked through a music collection in the United States.

BBC Radio 3 recorded the work for the first time with the celebrated Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff and, in what will be a global premiere, will broadcast Albumblatt as part of an interview with Christopher Hogwood about the discovery in advance of it being published in February by Barenreiter. Andras Schiff who was asked by Radio 3 to be the first to perform the piece will also be interviewed in the programme. "

This story needs a bit of correction. First of all, it wasn't "discovered" by Christopher Hogwood, since the auction catalogue with a complete reproduction of the piece has been online since April 2011 and I gather from friends who are Brahms experts that the piece has been known to them since then - at least one article has already been published about it and another is due out very soon.

A couple of things: despite the claims of the BBC site, It's certainly not the first performance, as that was given at conference in Germany last October.

Nor is it even the first broadcast, since that is taking place this afternoon (Thursday 19 January) on WPRB Princeton, played by Andrew Sun. It's online to anyone who wants to hear it, at www.wprb.com

But it will be good to hear Schiff playing this charming piece.

Here's a link to the manuscript: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...&int_new=46690

[Nick Armstrong]

This story needs a bit of correction. First of all, it wasn't "discovered" by Christopher Hogwood, since the auction catalogue with a complete reproduction of the piece has been online since April 2011 and I gather from friends who are Brahms experts that the piece has been known to them since then - at least one article has already been published about it and another is due out very soon.

A couple of things: despite the claims of the BBC site, It's certainly not the first performance, as that was given at conference in Germany last October.

Nor is it even the first broadcast

But apart from all that, the BBC Press Office got it dead right.... !!



I shall be listening despite any misguided press office puffery

[makropulos]

But apart from all that, the BBC Press Office got it dead right.... !!



I shall be listening despite any misguided press office puffery

Me too, Caliban. Spectacularly inaccurate puffery - but it'll be very nice to hear Schiff play this charming little piece.

[french frank]

Well, it could be that they didn't tie up the details of the first broadcast and were forestalled ...

[makropulos]

Well, it could be that they didn't tie up the details of the first broadcast and were forestalled ...

Ah yes - I think they were scooped by Princeton Public Radio - but the first performance last October, and the presence of the manuscript online are things they could easily have checked.