Talking points from our Reference Library

[BBMmk2]

Perfect,you guys should be running Radio 3.

Here here!! This wil goive us more time to investoigate thinmgs as well.

[verismissimo]

Here here!! This wil goive us more time to investoigate thinmgs as well.

Eggsackly.

[Nick Armstrong]

Perfect, you guys should be running Radio 3.

Let me at it!

Going to reopen the Naxos thread, just for the purposes of others posting any other Naxos-related links they know about.

[french frank]

I think we'll need to see how/if it will develop and what sort of information gets added.

One solution would be to close the forum, and to start threads and discussions here - on Talking About Music (or wherever has been most appropriate) and then copying the informative posts over to the Reference Library. That will leave both information and comments in the original place so that discussion can continue.

We can then decide, as and when, whether each copied post needs a new library thread or whether it can be added to an existing one. The idea is that information can be found as easily as possible and a thread title such as Naxos online music library is very clear exactly what it is - like the title on the spine of a book. It will be some time before the separate titles go into several pages.

[Simon]

Hello sc.

Your lonely furrow, as you put it upthread, is, I suspect, not as lonely as it appears. I've not been around as much recently, but nonetheless I've been keen to read your posts when possible, and I thank you for making them. You have a clarity with words that is refreshing, and I'm sure many of us have benefited from your comments, as indeed some have said.

I too have a habit of seeking out some of the lesser-known works, and have friends who do the same. We pass them around. (Bortkiewicz'a PC for the left hand only is one of these that you may like, and one I think excellent though it isn't, of course, a symphony!)

The number of these lesser-known worls that have been appearing on youtube over the past couple of years has been very encouraging.

I have you, though, to thank for one of my "most-favourite-ever" works. I think it's wonderfully evocative and very moving, and it's one that I play often now. I got it from one of your recommendations earlier and was hooked from the first few unmistakeable bars...! I wonder if you might guess what it is?

Here it is, anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2X62Z-S_Sc

I don't want to derail your journey, so I may start another thread to comment on it. I'd be interested in the views of others too, once they have listened.

Best wishes,

S-S!

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

I have you, though, to thank for one of my "most-favourite-ever" works. I think it's wonderfully evocative and very moving, and it's one that I play often now. I got it from one of your recommendations earlier and was hooked from the first few unmistakeable bars...! I wonder if you might guess what it is?

Here it is, anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2X62Z-S_Sc

I don't want to derail your journey, so I may start another thread to comment on it. I'd be interested in the views of others too, once they have listened.

Best wishes,

S-S!

Many thanks for posting this, Simon. Hugo Staehle is a new name to me and I very much enjoyed this First Symphony, which has echoes of Weber and, to a lesser extent, Mendelssohn to my ears. Joyous stuff!

[Simon]

Many thanks for posting this, Simon. Hugo Staehle is a new name to me and I very much enjoyed this First Symphony, which has echoes of Weber and, to a lesser extent, Mendelssohn to my ears. Joyous stuff!

You're welcome, IGI. You say "joyous" and I think so too, in a way. But I also hear a deep undercurrent of melancholy, especially in the first movement, that makes me wonder why a young man should be feeling thus. Maybe it's imagination on my part, knowing now that he was to die so young. The end of the work is unusual too, isn't it? Just fades away. But perfect, to my ears.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Thank you for your kind comments Simon. The Staehle is one of my favourite works from that period and coupled with the Burgmuller 1st it makes a great CD and highlights what a loss both composers were to the music of the 19th century by dying so young. The Staehle certainly deserves repertory status.

[Nick Armstrong]

I have you, though, to thank for one of my "most-favourite-ever" works. I think it's wonderfully evocative and very moving, and it's one that I play often now. I got it from one of your recommendations earlier and was hooked from the first few unmistakeable bars...! I wonder if you might guess what it is?

Here it is, anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2X62Z-S_Sc

Thank you Suffolkcoastal and Simon for that recommendation - just listened to it, a real treat Anyone with a taste for Schumann (like me) will be on its wavelength instantly, I think. And I agree, the knowledge that poor Hugo was to die at 22 lends it a poignancy. I've looked in vain for much about him on the net.