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William Smallwood: Early Dawn, Morceau de Salon The British pianist, organist and composer William Smallwood (1831-97) lived all his life in Kendal, Westmorland, and is best remembered for his immensely popular 'Smallwood's Piano Tutor'. ----------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: salon piano classical England

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Theo. Ward: Devotion, Valse Lente I am unable to find out anything about the American composer Theo. Ward, except that he wrote one or two salon pieces of a religious bent, and recorded at least one. The description 'Valse Lente' seems to indicate the wistful mood of this 1904-published piece rather than the tempo throughout. ---------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: Piano classical salon American

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Theo. Ward: Bells of Hope, Intermezzo I am unable to find out anything about the American composer Theo. Ward, except that he wrote one or two salon pieces of a religious bent, and recorded at least one. This piece may be based on a handbell tune. Published in 1906, it is very forward-looking, pianistically, in its use of tone clusters, and the central waltz section is unexpected. It may have been conceived for a band. ---------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: Piano classical salon American

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Fred Hager: Laughing Water, Two-step or Polka Fred Hager (originally Frederick Wallace Haga) (1874-1958) had a quite extraordinary musical career. He was one of the first violinists to record on wax cylinders at the end of the 19th century, was a successful bandmaster for many years, ventured into music publishing, and later became a musical director and 'talent scout' for various record companies. He is particularly well-known for being one of the first to organise recordings by black musicians, including Mamie Smith, Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong (so-called 'race records'). He was a prolific composer, and Laughing Water - apparently an evocation of native American music - was published in 1903, the year Hagar recorded it with the Edison Concert Band. This piano version is as published by Francis Day & Hunter in a compilation of piano solos dating from the early 1900s. --------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: Piano classical ragtime American

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William Smallwood: Fairy Blossoms The British pianist, organist and composer William Smallwood (1831-97) lived all his life in Kendal, Westmorland, and is best remembered for his immensely popular 'Smallwood's Piano Tutor'. ----------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: salon piano classical England

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John Pridham: Yorkshire Bells John Pridham (1818-96) was a Devon-based music teacher and composer, best known for his 'divertimenti' and marches describing imperial events (eg, his 'Battle March of Delhi' and 'Abyssinian Expedition'). Queen Victoria was apparently a fan. 'Yorkshire Bells' was written in, or before, 1873. It is described as a 'transcription', but I suspect it is an original piece, and the trancription refers to the bells. In writing it, Pridham may have had in mind Papageno's bells in 'The Magic Flute'. Unlike many Victorian descriptive fantasias involving depictions of church bells, this piece has the merit of being concise. A version has been recorded by the pipes and drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. --------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: piano classical salon British English

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'WC Powell' (William C Polla): The Gondolier, Intermezzo William C. Polla (1876 - 1939) was an American composer, lyricist and arranger. His ragtime works were usually issued under the pseudonym 'WC Powell'. For more information on Powell, see: http://parlorsongs.com/issues/1997-10/thismonth/feature.php This piece was published in 1903 - and has nothing in common with most 19th c 'gondolier songs' and barcarolles. --------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: piano classical ragtime American

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Jules Walter: Ce que dansait Grand' Mère, Gavotte JuLes Walter (18??-1924) published several salon works in Paris in the late 1800s-early 1900s. He also wrote popular songs under the pseudonym Joel Tiska. The title of this piece (written in or before 1886) translates as 'What Grandmother danced to'. Given the number of rallentandos and ritenutos indicated in the score, it must have been quite a start-stop dance! There was certainly a vogue in the salons for dances written in 'olden styles', eg the set by Chaminade. --------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: piano classical salon French France

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Phillip Sear: Pilgrim lullaby This short piece is so named because it is based on a balf-remembered motif from Vaughan Williams' opera 'The Pilgrim's Progress' (for which I played for rehearsals of a production some years ago). Tags: Piano classical english contemporary

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Boyton Smith (arr.): Isle of Beauty (Frederick William) Boyton Smith (1837-1911) was the elder brother of the well-known English composer of salon piano music, Sydney Smith. Boyton specialised in church music, and in his later years was an organist in Dorchester, Dorset, where he was born, and where he also took over a music school formerly run by his father. He wrote some salon music, including this attractive arrangement of a song by Thomas Bayley (1797-1830), which is apparently the 19th of s set of 'Souvenirs Charmantes'. It is very well written for piano, and is somewhat in the light-textured harp-like style that Brinley Richards used for folk song arrangements. This is not to be confused with the song of the same title that forms the national anthem of the Dominican Republic. --------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: piano classical salon British

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Michael Nyberg: I paddelkanot (In a canoe) I know nothing about the composer or this short piece except that it was published early in the last century by KF Wasenius of Helsinki in an album of Finnish piano works. It is pleasant genre piece that evokes through grace notes the water splashing off the paddles. --------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: piano classical Finnish Suomi Helsingfors

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Martin Wegelius (arr: K Ekman): Karin Månsdotters vaggvisa Wegelius (1846-1906) was a key figure in 19th c Finnish music. From 1882 was the first director of the Helsinki Conservatory, where Sibelius was one of his pupils. He founded a Wagner society in Helsinki, and the pianist Karl Ekman (transcriber of this song) collaborated with him in this venture by playing extracts from the scores. This song (full title 'Karin Mansdotters vaggvisa för Erik XIV' - translated as Karin Mansdotter's lullaby Erik XIV) is a setting of a lyric by the 19th c Finnish poet Zacharias Topelius. It recalls Karin Mansdotter (1550-1612), the peasant wife of Erik XIV of Sweden She was very popular in Finlad (ruled by Sweden from 1150-1809), where she retired after Erik's death. More information on her can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_M%C3%A5nsdotter The stately setting owes more to Schubert than to Wagner, but one can see stylistic similarities to such later patriotic works as Sibelius's 'Finlandia'. --------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: piano classical Finnish Suomi

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Oskar Merikanto: Kesäillan idylli; Marssi (Op. 16) Merikanto (1868-1924) was a Finnish composer, conductor organist and pianist, who spent much of his professional life in Helsinki, his native city. These pieces were probably written in 1900 and make up Merikanto's Op. 16. The first piece (Op. 16/2) translates as 'Summer night's idyll', and the second is subtitled 'vanhoilta ajoilta' (from olden times). --------------------------------------- Tags: Piano classical Finland Suomi

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Edward MacDowell: Arabeske, Melodie from 12 Etudes Op. 39 MacDowell (1861-1908),one of the best-known American composers of the latter part of the 19th c, wrote two sets of 12 studies (plus a lone concert study). The second of the two pieces here sound much easier than it is, because holding the melody while playing the accompanying chord patterns in the right hand requires either an enormous degree of finger independence derived from study of the Pischna exercises (or similar), or very judicious use of the pedal, or a combination of the two. It is marked Andantino. --------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: piano classical American USA

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João Sepe: Preludio Elegiaco I have not been able to find out much about the Brazilian composer Sepe. I believe he was a composition teacher pre-1930, and seems to have some association with the city of São Carlos in São Paulo state. If any Brazilian viewer can provide me with some more information I shall revise this. This piece carries the following preface (in translation): "Chopin lies dying. On his pale face shines the last ray of Hope. He suffers, but still dreams on. They sing the "Preghiera". Chopin, in ecstasy, his eyelids closes (sic), as he softly whispers: - "How lovely tis, dear God". That radiance of his Genius sparkles in gusts of ethereal joy.... but soon becomes extinct with the silken smoothness of a sorrowful sigh..." The middle section of the piece seems to hint at the first movement of Schumann's Piano Concerto, but I have not been able to spot any actual quotations from Chopin's own works. Note that this is a live performance and that at 3' 26" the note in the descending bass sequence should be an A natural and not a repeated B flat, however in the context of the piece as a whole I decided that this was not a significant enough misreading to justify rerecording it. --------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: piano classical Brasil Brazil

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Lowry (arr): Love, here is my heart / Dear little shamrock Tony Lowry (?-?) worked for some years as arranger for the British bandleader Henry Hall. He achieved some fame in the 1940s adn '50s as half of the piano duo "Lowry and Richardson - Four Hands in Harmony" (Clive Richardson is perhaps best remembered as composer of the 'London Fantasia') These two short transcriptions are of sentimental songs popular before the WWII. The first is of a song by the Sardinian composer Stanislao (or Lao) Silesu (1883-1953). Lowry attributes the sccond to William Jackson. Although it was popular as a tenor solo in the early years of the century, in its original form it was an early 19th c Irish ballad by John William Cherry. --------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: piano classical light Sardinia Ireland

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Phillip Sear: For Aye A short piece based on the beginning of the song 'Eternally' by Charles Chaplin and Geoffrey Parsons. It makes as much use of the rhythmic pattern within ghe melody as of the melody itself. --------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: piano classical contempory

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Zygmunt Noskowski: Chant d'Amour Although he studied for a time in Berlin, the Polish composer Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909) spent most of his musical life in Warsaw, and composed in most genres (including one of the first Polish symphonic poems). I have been unable to identify the opus number of this piece - which I found in an album. It sounds oddly contemporary, perhaps because of the harmonic echoes of 'Puff the Magic Dragon' and 'Edelweiss'. The harp-like arpeggiated chords are reminiscent of 'Il sogno di Doretta' from Puccini's 'La Rondine'. --------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: piano classical polish Polski Polska

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François Thomé: Simple Aveu, Op. 25 François (or Francis) Thomé (1850-1909) spent his professional life in France, but was actually born in Mauritius. He studied piano under Marmontel at the Paris Conservatoire, and composed in various forms. This piano piece (the title means 'Simple confession'), which is stylistically similar to several piano pieces by Chaminade, was once hugely popular. My Durand score lists 19 different arrangments (eg, mandolin and piano; 2 mandolins and piano; mandoline and guitar; piano trio plus harmonium). --------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: piano classical french Mauritian

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Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Niemann: Hymne au Soleil (Le Coq d'Or) The Russian title of the aria is «Ответь мне, зоркое светило» and the opera is Золотой Петушок. This is perhaps the most famous number from Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel) and the originality of Rimsky-Korsakov's 1907 work is such that it still sounds modern today. One has to look hard at the Hinrichsen score of this 1932 piano transcription to find the name of the German composer Walter Niemann as transcriber. Niemann (1876-1953)- who studied composition with Humperdinck - is best known today for his own original works. For more information (in German) and pictures on Niemann, see: http://www.romana-hamburg.de/Niemann.htm --------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk Tags: piano classical transcription arrangement Russian

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