Looking for recordings of Samual Feinberg's own music

[lontano]

Hi! I've been trying to find recordings of Samuel Feinberg's own works, but not necessarily his own performances. So far I have the complete Piano Sonatas, 3 Preludes, Op.15, and the 3rd Piano Concerto. At some point I will be getting recordings of his arrangements (he wrote many of those, and are available), but there are some really interesting original compositions I have scores for but am having a hard time finding CDs for. Any help is appreciated! 

Lontano

[retrouvailles]

He recorded his 2nd piano concerto. It's a very good recording of a decent piece. Also, his Suite No. 2 is on that disk, along with Beethoven's Op. 22 piano sonata. Highly recommended, if you can get past the poor sound quality.

As far as other people's recordings of his music, you've already got a good bit of it. Just look out for Christophe Sirodeau's recent recording of the 1st piano concerto and some solo works.

[lontano]

I've been looking at that recording and wondering just how bad the audio quality is. While I really love the fact that we have a cherished collection of early analog audio and piano-roll recordings of musicians from the dawn of the age of recording (many thanks Mr. Edison & others!  ) I had quite a number of LPs in my Music Library of those early recordings, some of which were scratched recordings of even worse source material, and it was hard for me to really appreciate the qualities of the performers, particularly at a time when 20-bit oversampled digital CDs were just beginning to flood the scene. Now that MP3 has rendered much of that technology moot, the task of "digitally refining" aged recordings remains one of the last bastions of reclaiming these "Great Performances from the Golden Eras", etc.

How well do you know the audio quality of Feinberg's recording of the 2nd concerto, Suite #2, and Beethoven Sonata Op.22? Does it really suck, or maybe gets by with a B- or C+ (go on, be subjective  )?

Anyway thaks for the tips, and Sirodeau, a consummate interpreter of this music, will be on my watch-list.

L.

[retrouvailles]

I would say that the soound quality for the Feinberg CD is about a B-/C+. It's definitely listenable material.

[lontano]

As far as other people's recordings of his music, you've already got a good bit of it. Just look out for Christophe Sirodeau's recent recording of the 1st piano concerto and some solo works.

I've been searching for Sirodeau's above-mentioned recording but haven't had any luck. Do you know if it's been released yet, or when/where to expect to see it?

Also, I'm thinking you were the one that highly recommended Feinberg's 3rd Sonata. While I've listened to it a couple of times earlier this year, only in the past few days have I really listened to it and it's one potent piece of piano music!

At the risk of suggesting the 3rd movement being almost bombastic (and in this case I mean it in a good way ), the 3 movements of this work are very different in several ways. 1st Mov is a Prelude, 2nd is a Funeral March, and the 3rd is just titled "Sonata", and what a demanding sonata it is. It's hard to imagine where a performer gets the energy to execute this "Allegro appassionata" after the shorter previous, and not exactly easy, movements. All-in-all it has attained a position of one of my top favorites of his 12, and high on my list of piano sonatas in general. Fascinating, rewarding music from a far too underrepresented composer.

Lontano

[retrouvailles]

I've been searching for Sirodeau's above-mentioned recording but haven't had any luck. Do you know if it's been released yet, or when/where to expect to see it?

It has been out for quite some time. I bought the recording right when it came out.

https://www.amazon.com/Piano-Concerto-solo-piano-works/dp/B0017RFXUM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1256178089&sr=8-2

[lontano]

Many thanks!

I'm frustrated that either I missed the object, or this hasn't been returned by my very varied and frequent Amazon searches. I once designed databases. 

L.