Dead-Composers Society

[Parker Owens]

@AC Benus This is such a beautiful work, full of yearning and lyricism. Thank you for sharing it today.

[AC Benus]

Listen through to the end of the trio. This is some of the most inspired writing for musical stage ever achieved

 

Edited August 24, 2021 by AC Benus

[AC Benus]

Josef Suk and the Prague Chamber Orchestra perform the Andante and Rondo from Mozart's 7th violin concerto (and, yes, he wrote 7!)

 

Andante (2:54:39)

Rondo - Allegro (3:02:27)

[AC Benus]

Allowing that the composer may not have achieved the credential of "Dead" yet, here is John Rutter's Chanson

 

[Parker Owens]

For this afternoon…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wjZcmrvG_M

[northie]

In wandering around looking for information, I came across this gem by Romanian / British composer, Francis Chagrin.

 

Edited October 10, 2021 by northie

[AC Benus]

Stendhal was never shy in saying he got more out of Paisiello's music and drama than any other composer. A sensitive, and exciting performance like the new one below shows why Paisiello will always grace stages the world over.

 

Simone Perugini  and the Tuscan Opera Academy Orchestra perform the overture to L'inganno felice ("The Joyous Deception")

 

[AC Benus]

Some autumnal music for an October day . . .

Malcolm Binns and the Philharmonia Orchestra, led by Nicholas Braithwaite, perform William Sterndale Bennett's Adagio for piano and orchestra.

 

[Zombie]

Sterndale Bennett - talented and competent composer who created some very enjoyable music. Yet that was not enough. He hasn’t endured, like so many other talented artists that just fade from memory. There must be something missing. Emotion? Originality? Musical hooks and tricks that raise the hairs? Maybe all of these things

[AC Benus]

Pietro Spada performs the Cantabile from Clementi's Sonata in g-minor, Op. 7, No.3 

 

[C. Henderson]

The Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. The first and third movements are written from the perspective of a parent who has lost a child, but I'm particularly drawn to the second movement, which is that of a child separated from a parent. The words are of a prayer that was inscribed by a girl on the wall of her gestapo prison cell in Zakopane, Poland.

"Mother, do not weep,
Most chaste Queen of Heaven
Support me always."

 

[AC Benus]

The Beaux Arts Trio perform the poco adagio from Dvořák's Piano Trio in E minor, Op.90

 

[Parker Owens]

15 minutes ago, AC Benus said:

The Beaux Arts Trio perform the poco adagio from Dvořák's Piano Trio in E minor, Op.90

 

This is a favorite! 

[C. Henderson]

18 minutes ago, AC Benus said:

The Beaux Arts Trio perform the poco adagio from Dvořák's Piano Trio in E minor, Op.90

 

So good, they could have went with a diff front cover though 😂

[AC Benus]

I have posted this before, but such an amazing performance deserves several listens. From 1999, Roberto Alagna sings "Vainement, ma bien aimée" by Edouard Lalo, from his opera "Le Roi d'Ys"

https://youtu.be/MxuKA4sXNkY

 

[AC Benus]

Olivier Charlier and Yan Pascal Tortelier leading the BBC Philharmonic perform the lento from Lalo's concerto russe 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAex9Wf5eo

[C. Henderson]

Libera Me (from the opening of the movie “Interview With The Vampire”) by Elliot Goldenthal featuring vocals by The American Boychoir. Classical/gothic vibes.

 

Edited November 9, 2021 by C. Henderson

[AC Benus]

"Let my prayer arise in thy sight as incense,

and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice.

Lord, I have called to thee, hear me!

Attend to the voice of my prayer when I call to thee!

Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord,

keep watch over the door around my lips!

Incline not my heart to words of evil,

to invent excuses for my sins.

Let my prayer arise in Thy sight as incense,

and let the lifting up of my hands

Be an evening sacrifice."

 

[Parker Owens]

1 hour ago, AC Benus said:

"Let my prayer arise in thy sight as incense,

and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice.

Lord, I have called to thee, hear me!

Attend to the voice of my prayer when I call to thee!

Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord,

keep watch over the door around my lips!

Incline not my heart to words of evil,

to invent excuses for my sins.

Let my prayer arise in Thy sight as incense,

and let the lifting up of my hands

Be an evening sacrifice."

 

It’s amazing! Whose setting is it? 

[AC Benus]

1 hour ago, Parker Owens said:

It’s amazing! Whose setting is it? 

I believe it's the traditional setting, but I don't know for sure...

[AC Benus]

Two interesting Russian scherzi

 

[Parker Owens]

Oh, my heart sings to hear the Borodin scherzo. The Sokolov was marvelous.

[Parker Owens]

Something for a grey December day. The Gloria still sends chills up my spine, decades after singing it for the first time.

 

[Lux Apollo]

Franz Joseph Haydn wrote a lot of keyboard sonatas. In the middle of his career, before the Sonatas were intended solely to be played on the piano, he wrote this lovely Sonata in c minor. Haydn was known to be a generally happy individual and this is reflected in the fact that he wrote very few piano works in minor keys, and here - even in a dark key like c minor, there is often some sparkle and brilliance along with the introspective moments.

 

[AC Benus]

20 hours ago, Lux Apollo said:

Franz Joseph Haydn wrote a lot of keyboard sonatas. In the middle of his career, before the Sonatas were intended solely to be played on the piano, he wrote this lovely Sonata in c minor. Haydn was known to be a generally happy individual and this is reflected in the fact that he wrote very few piano works in minor keys, and here - even in a dark key like c minor, there is often some sparkle and brilliance along with the introspective moments.

 

You and I have spoken about Plentev before, and I think we agree how inspiring his interpretations are (especially with the much neglected CPE Bach). But as for recordings, I much prefer his 1989 studio setting of Haydn's c minor piano sonata. Perhaps you have the album as I do?

 

 

 

As you mentioned in your post, the expressiveness in this performances is wonderful to listen to