Huss: Piano Music

On this CD:

1. Pieces (6) for piano, Op. 23, G. 230 No. 6, Polonaise brillante
Composed by Henry Holden Huss
Performed by Brian Kovach

2. Pieces (3) for piano, Op. 26, G. 232 No. 1, Menuet Rococo
Composed by Henry Holden Huss
Performed by Brian Kovach

3. Happy days, suite for piano, G. 246 No. 9, Lake Como by Moonlight (Barcarolle)
Composed by Henry Holden Huss
Performed by Brian Kovach

4. Pieces (3) for piano, Op. 26, G. 232 No. 3, The Brooklet (Etude)
Composed by Henry Holden Huss
Performed by Brian Kovach

Tracks:

Amy Beach: Romance
Percy Grainger: Molly on the Shore
Dvorak: Songs My Mother Sang
Sibelius: Musette
Marion Eugenie Bauer: Up the Ocklawaha
Chopin: "Minute" Waltz
Carl Venth: Aria
Selim Palmgren: May Night
Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River
Dvorak: Humoreske
H.P. Danks: Silver Threads Among the Gold
Herman Bellstedt, Jr.: Caprice on Dixie
Henry Holden Huss: Romance
Harry Mathena Gilbert: Marionettes (Scherzo)
Cecil Burleigh: Four Rocky Mountain Sketches
Cecil Burleigh: Four Rocky Mountain Sketches
Cecil Burleigh: Four Rocky Mountain Sketches
Cecil Burleigh: Four Rocky Mountain Sketches
Massenet: Twilight
Max Liebling: Fantasia on Sousa Themes
J. Rosamund Johnson: Nobody Knows the Trouble I See

Album Description

"Everything about this release by violinist Rachel Barton Pine is exceptional." --ClassicsToday [10/10] (on Scottish Fantasies)

"Recordings don't get any better than this." -- ClassicsToday [10/10] (on Brahms & Joachim Violin Concertos)

Chicago native Rachel Barton Pine was a child prodigy who began performing in public at age seven. Today she is one of America's most acclaimed violinists, as well as the best selling artist on Cedille Records. Maud Powell (1867-1920) was the premier female American violinist of her era, and she made numerous classic recordings between 1904 and 1919 that are still sought after by collectors. This CD is a tribute from one eminent American violinist to another, honoring Maud Powell for the tremendous positive influence she had on later American artists. All of the selections are works recorded originally by Powell, now able to be heard in contemporary sound. Many of the selections are seldom or never recorded elsewhere, and all are extremely accessible.

The Romantic Piano Concerto, 16
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Huss Concerto Brash and Compelling

The Romantic Piano Concerto, 16

Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
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ASIN: B000002ZZJ
Release Date: 1997-09-09

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Suite Fantastique For Piano and Orchestra, Op. 7: Virginia Reel: Molto vivace

Customer Reviews:

good CD.......1998-11-19

Hobson plays these pieces well, even though these pieces are not the best musically.

Huss Concerto Brash and Compelling.......1998-11-02

This music is not subtle. If your image of musical virtuosity involves Glenn Gould bending over the keyboard to hear the subtle nuances of a Bach prelude, you will not enjoy this. Huss' music is loud and ornate. If it were a car, it would have a half ton of chrome and tailfins. Listening to it, I hear echoes of Lizst, Rachmaninoff and Bruckner, not to mention every other composer of the last half of the nineteenth century. Huss is travelling over well trodden ground here. I'm glad he made the trip. Themes from the piece echo through my mind again and again, and it stand up to repeated listening. The Schelling piece on the same CD is more polished, as it's author clearly had more training. But of the two I prefer the Huss. The Huss concerto is part of a fairly large body of work from the late Romantic Era which is now almost unknown. It was too early to be recorded, even if popular. The first World War and the subsequent rise of modernism served to hide these works, which were scorned as the relics of an unlamented past. They are buried treasure, which with the help of record companies like Hyperion, can still be recovered and cherished.

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Romantic music captures the innocence of 1900 America

Huss: Piano Music

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000007SDZ
Release Date: 1998-06-30

Tracks:

No. 6 Of Six Pieces For The Pianoforte, Op. 23, G. 230: Polonaise brilliante
No. 1 Of Three Pieces For Piano, Op. 26, G. 232: Menuet Rococo
No. 9 Of Happy Days, G. 246: Lake Como By Moonlight
No. 3 Of Three Pieces For Piano, Op. 26, G. 232: 'The Brooklet' - Etude
No. 1 Of Drei Bagatellen fur das Pianoforte, G. 199: Etude Melodique
No. 1 Of Seven Sketches For Piano, Op. 32, G. 228: 'The Optimist' - Prelude
Op. 25, No. 2, G. 233: Sans Souci
Op. 18, No. 1, G. 215: Menuet
No. 2 Of Three Pieces For Piano, Op. 26, G. 232: 'On The Lake' - Etude
'Allegretto con Grazia'
'Andante molto tranquillo ma non troppo lento'
'Allegro moderato e giojoso'
No. 7 Of Seven Sketches For Piano, Op. 32, G. 228: The Joy Of Autumn - (Concert Prelude)
No. 1 Of Three Pieces For Pianoforte, G. 199: Valse
No. 2 Of (Two Piano Pieces), G. 200: 'The Rivulet' - Etude
No. 2 Of Drei Bagatellen fur das Pianoforte, G. 199: Albumblatt
No. 4 Of Six Pieces For The Pianoforte, Op. 23, G. 230: Impromptu
No. 1 Of (Two Pieces) For The Piano, Op. 27, G. 234: Menuet Mignon
For Piano, G. 288: Valse Petite
No. 2 Of Six Pieces For The Pianoforte, Op. 23, G. 230: 'Brahmsianer' - Intermezzo In B-Flat
No. 3 Of Six Pieces For The Pianoforte, Op. 23, G. 230: 'Brahmsianer' - Intermezzo In G
No. 2 Of (Two Pieces) For The Piano, Op. 27, G. 234: Valse Intime
No. 1 Of Six Pieces For The Pianoforte, Op. 23, G. 230: Etude Romantique

Customer Reviews:

Romantic music captures the innocence of 1900 America.......1998-12-27

This album is like a breath of fresh air. The music is free of post world war angst. It's full of optimism. Mr. Kovach gives us lots of flashy finger work ballanced by soft and subtle passages. Each time I listen I have a new favorite piece. It's clear that, as a composer, Huss was a great craftsman.

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A Real Find!

American Romance

Manufacturer: Albany Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002NY8LC
Release Date: 2004-08-31

Tracks:

Trio in d minor, Op.23, "The Munich"
Suite, "From My Youth," Op. 5
Serenade, Op. 61

Album Description

Henry Holden Huss was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in New York City, where his family moved when he was two. His father had emigrated from Germany and became a successful organist and piano teacher in this country. Young Huss began to study music with his father, then others in this country, finally traveling to Munich to study at the Royal Conservatory. He studied piano, organ and composition with two other American students who began the same time he did: Horatio Parker and Arthur Whiting. All three excelled. Upon his return to the United States, Huss received some recognition with his Piano Concerto (his graduation piece from Munich). He performed it both with the Boston Symphony and the New York Philharmonic. Daniel Gregory Mason related to Huss in 1892, that John Knowles Paine, the dean of American composers with whom Mason was studying at the time, considered Huss "the best of the young generation of American composers". Many shared this opinion! . But like many other American composers of the time, Huss found it very difficult to get his music performed and published. His Trio in d minor, Op. 23, was composed in 1886 and dedicated to his teacher Joseph Rheinberger. Mortimer Wilson was born in Charlton, Iowa. He studied organ, violin and composition with Frederick Grant Gleason at the Chicago Musical College. He then studied in Leipzig with Max Reger. John Tasker Howard (the great observer of early American composers) wrote of his rigorously trained former teacher that he "…could toss complicated counterpoint from his pen as easily as he could talk to his friends". Upon his return to this country in 1911, he taught at the Atlanta Conservatory and conducted the Atlanta Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1916, he moved to Brenau College in Gainesville, Georgia. By 1918, he had taken a job as consulting editor for the National Academy of Music in New York City, where he remained until his death. Today, his works are mostly in manuscript and includes five symphonies and a great deal of chamber music. The suite, From My Youth, Op. 5 was published in 1911 and premiered by the Sitting Trio. Adolf Martin Foerster was born in Pittsburgh. He began with piano lessons from his mother and then pursued music in the public schools which had just incorporated Lowell Mason's ideas about music education into its public schools. He also then went to Leipzig to complete his education. Upon his return to America he spent one year teaching in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, before he returned to Pittsburgh, where he soon became one of the musical leaders of the community. Though mainly known as a songwriter, Foerster's many compositions include numerous suites, overtures, and festival marches for orchestra; a violin concerto, two other piano trios; a piano quartet and pieces for violin and piano. His Trio Serenade was composed in 1907 and is a lush romantic work.

Customer Reviews:

A Real Find!.......2004-09-03

Until this CD came my way, I'd never heard of the Rawlins Piano Trio. The three musicians are all faculty members of the Department of Music at the University of South Dakota, and they have recorded two previous CDs, both of which present little-known piano trio music of American composers. The composers whose trios are performed on those discs include Henry Hadley, Daniel Gregory Mason, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Ernest Bloch, Samuel Adler, William Clifford Heilman, and Horatio Parker. This disc adds music by Henry Holden Huss (1862-1953), Mortimer Wilson (1876-1932), and Adolph Martin Foerster (1854-1927), all of whom belong to the generation of American composers 'from the period before [the time of] Aaron Copland, when American music is generally thought to have arrived,' according to the fascinating booklet notes by the group's cellist, Richard Rognstad. He makes the point that there are untold numbers of Americans who had studied in Germany (and other parts of Europe) who came home to compose music that has since been lost to memory. He discovered the works on this disc (and the previously recorded two CDs) and thought they deserved to be disseminated. Indeed, he goes further to say that 'The Rawlins Piano Trio has adopted revivifying this heritage as part of its mission.' If this CD is any indication of what we've been missing, I'd say that their task is a worthy one indeed.

All three works--Huss's 'Trio in d minor, Op. 23' ('The Munich'), Wilson's suite 'From My Youth, Op. 5,' and Foerster's 'Serenade, Op. 61--are cast in roughly Brahmsian language; they are full of singing melodies and late 19th-century harmonies and part-writing. They are pleasant without being saccharine, strong without being abrasive.

Huss's trio was written in 1886 as a graduation present for his teacher in Munich, Josef Rheinberger. It starts out with a lushly harmonized melody that reminds me in its effect of that of Brahm's own Op. 8 piano trio. This work was fostered initially by one of America's first and greatest chamber violinists, Franz Kneisel, but its last known performance was in 1891. What a loss. This is a masterfully crafted four-movement work with an alternately dramatic and lyrical sonata-allegro first movement, a songful Andante that features a lovely 4/4 cello melody, an energetic and playful Scherzo, and a Finale which opens with a canonic version of the Andante's cello melody that is followed by the main body of the movement, a brisk, jocular 2/4 rondo.

Wilson's 'From My Youth' was originally published in two sets, each with four movements, but Rognstad had not been able to find the missing first set until after this recording was made. We're told those recently found pieces will be on the Trio's next release. The Trio here records the last four brief characteristic pieces--'Funeral of a Calico Cat,' 'Love-Song of an Alpine Doll,' 'Tin-Soldier Dress-Parade,' & 'Over the Little Blue Tea-Set.' From the titles one can discern that these are, with the exception of the 'Funeral,' more in the nature of salon pieces. 'Funeral,' though, is rather more dramatic--and at three minutes it is the longest--and manages to convey sadness as well as mock ceremony. There are some interesting instrumental effects in this set--cat's meows in the 'Funeral,' a bugle call in violin harmonics in 'Tin-Soldier,' and the chattering of ladies in 'Tea-Set.' Rognstad tells us that Wilson orchestrated the suite and it was played by the New York Philharmonic early in the last century.

Foerster's three-movement 'Serenade' is an exuberantly romantic work. The first movement has a gorgeous cello melody that serves as the scaffolding for the quasi-sonata-allegro movement. The Andante begins with a piano statement of an equally lovely melody eventually decorated with cello and violin counter-melodies that have their own interest. The allegro Finale is a vigorous rustic dance that then quotes the first movement's principal theme which is given contrapuntal treatment, leading to a hearty flourish of a coda, a fitting finish to a life-enhancing work.

All of these works are squarely tonal, unabashedly conservative, even for their time. And they are unfailingly delightful in effect.

Heartily recommended for those who like discovering heretofore forgotten works, particularly those of the high romantic period. If you love Brahms or, to name an American who is slightly better known from recent Naxos releases, Arthur Foote, this release is for you. The playing, while not quite on the level of, say, the Beaux Arts or Florestan Trio, is much more than satisfactory, and we are unlikely ever to hear any better performances of these pieces unless, mirabile dictu, they become part of the core piano trio repertoire. By the way, a real bonus here is the reproduction of Albert Bierstadt's painting, 'Among the Sierra Nevada,' on the booklet cover.

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Edward MacDowell & Company

Manufacturer: New World Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000009N8W
Release Date: 1998-09-29

Tracks:

Etude In Form Of A Scherzo (Op. 18, No. 2)
Prelude II (Op. 17, No. 2)
Fuga Giocosa (Op. 41, No. 3) - John Knowles Paine
Romance (Op. 12) - John Knowles Paine
Mazurka
On The Sea
Valse Gracile (Op. 49, No. 3)
Twelve Virtuoso Studies (Op. 46): Novellette
Twelve Virtuoso Studies (Op. 46): Moto Perpetuo
Twelve Virtuoso Studies (Op. 46): Wild Chase
Twelve Virtuoso Studies (Op. 46): Improvisation
Twelve Virtuoso Studies (Op. 46): Elfin Dance
Twelve Virtuoso Studies (Op. 46): Valse Triste
Twelve Virtuoso Studies (Op. 46): Burlesque
Twelve Virtuoso Studies (Op. 46): Bluette
Twelve Virtuoso Studies (Op. 46): Traumerei
Twelve Virtuoso Studies (Op. 46): March Wind
Twelve Virtuoso Studies (Op. 46): Impromptu
Twelve Virtuoso Studies (Op. 46): Polonaise

Hus - Preludes and Fugues for piano (book I: 1-6) - Walter Hus

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Hus - Preludes and Fugues for piano (book I: 1-6) - Walter Hus

Manufacturer: Rode Pomp
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ASIN: B0009V617Q

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Walter Hus Prelude and Fugue n°1 Track 01 Track 02 Prelude and Fugue n°2 Track 03 Track 04 Prelude and Fugue n°3 Track 05 Track 06 Prelude and Fugue n°4 Track 07 Track 08 Prelude and Fugue n°5 Track 09 Track 10 Prelude and Fugue n°6 Track 11 Track 12

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