La Fauvette Passerinette – the subalpine warbler – has acquired a new profile since scholar and pianist Peter Hill's discovery, two years ago, of a Messiaen work for solo piano dating from 1961.
Given the archaeological bent of most programs, this one might have been called "contemporary" or even "new," although the youngest item (Schoenberg's Violin and Piano Fantasy) is more than 50 years old, and the oldest ones (the Debussy and Webern's Four Pieces for Violin and Piano) date from 1910.
Tabuh-Tabuhan, subtitled Toccata for Orchestra and Two Pianos, dates from 1936: McPhee's faithful reproduction of the gamelan sound in his core concertino lineup of two pianos, celeste, xylophone, marimba and glockenspiel felt radical; their timbres exotic, the pounding ostinati astonishingly vibrant and modern.
Alexander Glazunov's second piano concerto, dating from 1917 but betraying not the slightest trace of a society in convulsion, was the highlight for anoraks.
Many of his best-known songs and piano miniatures date from this period.
His earliest plans to write a piano concerto dated from 1938; he was himself in his younger days a virtuoso pianist.
Elgar's sketches for a piano concerto dating from 1913 were elaborated by the composer Robert Walker and first performed in August 1997 by the pianist David Owen Norris.
In the three surviving examples of Cristofori's pianos, which date from the 1720s, the mechanism, or "action," differs somewhat from that described and pictured by Maffei; however, rather than merely representing an earlier phase of Cristofori's work, Maffei's diagram may be in error.
By its serial number this piano can be dated from 1842, which is also the date of an identical instrument that was Chopin's last piano.
You're in the adult camp if you keep on building after an age when most kids get sidetracked by dating, piano lessons, or sports.
