World first recordings of two (three) Masterworks by Felix Draeseke (1835-1913)

[Steffen Fahl]

I just finished yesterday my recordings of three Compositions by Felix Draeseke (for more about him see https://draeseke.org) as some of you might know all is done with diligent and time consuming work on digital audio workstations, trying to program every single detail of the recorded interpretation in the way I understand its musical intention.

1) The Pianofantasy op.8 on themes frome Boildieus Opera La dame Blanche (world first recording done with Synthogy German grand)

2) Six Fugues for the piano op 15 (there exist only a recording with organ yet, since it is explicitly written for piano it is kind of a first recording in the right sound to, done with Synthogy German grand)

3) The Symphonic Poem "Frithjof" WoO 7 brought to Finale (= the notationsoftware) from the Manuscript by a member of the international Draeseke Society, who contacted me to produce a reasonable rendering (done with VSL-Cube extended).
This symphonic poem is with its three movements longer than every Brahms-Symphony nearly as complex as a smaller Mahler-Symphony, full of passionate music, orchestral power, harmonic experiments, and counterpointal brilliance.

I hope you like those incredible yet nearly totally unheard compositions of Draeseke. I am curious what you think about and would like to hear everything what might help to improve my renderings.

best
Steffen

[thalbergmad]

I very much look forward to hearing these tongith. From what I have heard of Draeseke so far, he is a composer that should be played far more often.

The piano concerto in particular is a late romantic beauty.

Thal

[ahinton]

tongith

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Best,

Alistair

[davidjosepha]

?...

Best,

Alistair

"tonight", I presume

[ahinton]

"tonight", I presume

Yes, I'm sure that's so.

Best,

Alistair