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the youtube recording sounds like it was recorded on a digital piano I don't want to beat what should remain a dead horse but I agree that the piano sound in the introduction is not Bosendorfer-worthy, as might be implied by shots showing the piano maker's name. The intro has that sampled-piano qua...

Beware of making any recording a model for your own interpretation. Erez' recording is clear because he favors the right hand too much throughout most of it. The contrapuntal interplay between the voices, particularly in the final section, is thereby mostly lost. He also performs incorrectly every o...

Pendulum Music by Steve Reich The Reich reminds me of a mashup of Stockhausen's Mikrophonie pieces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikrophonie_(Stockhausen) and Ligeti's Poeme Symphonique for 100 metronomes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po%C3%A8me_Symphonique_for_100_metronomes An interesting variation...

The problem with this piece -- not a very interesting work, in my opinion, because of its repetitiveness -- is that the staccato dots under a slur (which can mean both legato-ness and/or denote a phrase) appear in several different contexts. At the beginning, you have dots and slurs but explicitly n...

(some of which were published in facsimile) should be fine, provided they don't include additions by other hands I own a couple of these facsimiles. Unfortunately, they are monochrome and not very good reproductions at that. They are good enough to make out the handwriting but not good enough for s...

So does the Kunzelmann edition qualify for IMSLP uploading? If so, it should be here.

--Sixtus

For such a prolific composer with such wide areas or interest how could he just stop? There has been much speculation as to why Sibelius fell nearly silent after what would normally be considered "middle period" masterpieces (Sym 7, Tapiola and music for The Tempest). But he's not the onl...

The link below is recommended to Sibelius fans. The article itself is about the possibility of sketches being preserved of Sibelius' long lost 8th Symphony (the score is thought to have been burned by the dissatisfied composer himself). At the end of the article is a link to a video containing perfo...

But those earlier horns were crooked, or...? While I can see how transposing notation might have been useful in the early (pre-keyed) days of woodwind instruments, I have never understood the utility of transposing notation for any brass instrument. If they produced pitches solely depending on each...

It should be trivial to print a study score with all the parts at concert pitch, and (at least optionally) avoiding the C clef. While I agree with the desirability of having all computer-typeset full scores notated at concert pitch (or with appropriate octave transpositions for certain instruments ...

Great suggestions! I agree with the effectiveness of the Beethoven 5 accelerando (between the recap and the coda of the 4th movement) but I think the accelerando in the finale of Beethoven's 9th is even more famous and even more spectacular probably because the span between the initial and final tem...

I've found some performances of Villa-Lobos choral/orchestral works at the streaming-replay site of Netherlands Radio. http://concerthuis.radio4.nl/concert/944/De_Vrijdag_van_Vredenburg_Rondom_VillaLobos The main site has LOTS of other interesting stuff that bears investigation, including Boulez con...

As a possessor of a few of these editions (which are still available, despite the textual superiority of the new Wagner Edition scores that Eulenburg also publishes), they would be a real pain to scan without disassembling the bindings. The thickness of the volumes means "gutter" shadows a...

If the chamber music contains a violin part, a good way to gauge the whole piece's difficulty is if the violinist you have can play the 1st violin part. In most string quartets by Beethoven and before, the 1st violin part is the most difficult of the four, followed, at times by the cello line. In Ha...

So I got the movement order screwed up. The first movement is a classic sonata form with coda. There's an unusual amount of working out of motives between the first and second subjects forshadowing what happens in the development section (which is supposed to be repeated). The SECOND movement is the...