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@muesk3 You're quite right, it *is* familiar and I can't put my finger on it right now but I'm sure I will eventually, and I'll keep you posted.

I decided to listen to this relatively obscure composer - a Czech with a German name, the obverse of the many Germans/Austrians with Czech names - because his birthdate is close to Beethoven's ... and I'm not at all disappointed.

Lovely music; thank you / velice vám děkuji, Agir3! (I assume you...

Who's the pianist here?

Born ten years before Beethoven and only four years after Mozart, Dussek's best music is no less early-Romantic - indeed often more so - than that of composers born 30-40 years later. I find that very remarkable indeed: what would we say, for comparison's sake, if we found completely atonal musi...

To all those who justifiably point out that a Requiem 'ought' to be a fairly grim work, certainly in a minor key: Try the opening of Zelenka's Requiem in D major, ZWV 46. It sounds totally like a Magnificat and in no way like a Requiem.

@commanderfairfax I find myself asking that question again and again, work after excellent work that Goldie and others have uploaded onto Youtube. The only possible answer is that there's a herd phenomenon at work whereby people listen again and again to what they're already used to, and never v...

Wikipedia says this first-class early-to-mid-Romantic symphony (1834/5) was left unfinished when the composer died in 1836 aged 26.

Not only are the performing forces not stated here, but we also lack info about how unfinished the work was and who took it upon himself to finish it.

@JJRaff1822 Remember that Wagner would NOT have approved of Rubinstein on the basis of his racist/anti-Semitic nonsense - no matter that the Rubinstein family had long abandoned Judaism.

... Ought to be recognized as a Great Composer.

Wikipedia says this was published in 1801 - when F.X. was ten years old??

@michelbril C'est vrai pour une grande partie des Séfarades. Par contre, si vous ne comptez que l'élite des originataires du Maroc et de l"Algérie, ceux qui se sont installés en France, ça peut vous donner une impression plus "occidentalisée", plus "civilisée" qu'on ne reçoit en Israël.

תודה. הביצוע מנעורי שלושתכם, בהחלט ראוי שיהיה ביוטיוב! י

I feel like a total ignoramus for not having known Rota as much more than a film-score composer.

This piece, and his Viola Sonata, are wonderful: accessible and highly atmospheric.

@paladin2906 The "terrorism" that Israel practices is SURVIVAL. NO OTHER PEOPLE in the world is specifically threatened with extermination, or experienced cold, deliberate, industrialized extermination of one-third of its number only two generations ago. HERE IT COMES AGAIN, and the world is ap...

Lovely work!

If younger brother Xaver Scharwenka counts as a lesser-known composer, then brother Philipp must count as an unknown.

This work is really attractive; so unpretentious compared with many works of its time. Very Mendelssohnian; to me that's a strong positive recommendation.

I LOVE all those late-late Romantics who, as Mr.Hexameron's 'blurb' puts it, "rejected the new aesthetics of Scriabin, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky, preferring the models and sound world of late Romanticism." Many of them seem to be Russians, possibly an expression of the conservative and spiritual...

Hummel is slowly becoming well known - at last. Dussek is remarkable, an almost full-blooded Romantic born ten years before Beethoven, eighteen years before Hummel, thirty-seven years before Schubert! Field is lovely. And don't let's forget others such as Ries, Kuhlau ...

So much less known than Hummel or Field or his close contemporaries Chopin, Mendelssohn and Schumann - yet a lovely work very remjniscent of the former. Thank you Gioielli!

@HARMONICO101 There's also the obverse: very intelligent people to whom music means little and classical music even less. Alas, I have a 6-y/o grandson like that - :-( . Not to mention people who don't really appreciate classical music but who think pretending they do is 'bon ton': you know, th...

I sometimes 'go' for composers with unusual characteristics even when their music is not particularly unusual (but good). This one has TWO: (1) a royal, and (2) a female. NICE!

So this is something the most famous cellist of his day wrote! - He was long suspected of being the real author of Haydn's Cello Concerto in D Major, and he also premièred Beethoven's Triple Concerto - the only Classical piano-trio work I know where the cello is the lead instrument:.

@chalkidrys pas du tout surprenant, étant donné que le compositeur l'avait écrit pour le clavecin!

@Bloonpopper2007 Welcome to the realisation that true music lovers are starved by some mysterious 'establishment' - possibly commercially motivated - of countless masterworks by lesser-known, lesser-played composers who should not be so!

There's a newer recording up on Youtube which I also liked, with a violinist I hadn't heard of called Yuko Nishino and orchestra+conductor unstated. I think that one is sweeter and less dramatic. Would anybody care to compare?

Lovely music. AllanFearn's criticism about the oh-so-English humour not coming through is unfortunately true. However, absent any other complete uploading of this suite on Youtube, I'm happy to have Mr.Saless' one.

I had no idea one of the most-played light music composers of all time had made this foray into a typically more serious form - which in his hands is more entertaining than serious. Great listening!

Congratulations on having chosen Ries as a coupling for Haydn and Beethoven. Today Ries is gradually becoming known - most deservedly so! - but back in 1999 he wasn't.

Fascinating discussion. How can anybody look upon Haydn as Mozart's predecessor when a good portion of Haydn's great GREAT works were written after Mozart's death? Re the streams, would you therefore place Beethoven in the Haydn stream and Schubert in the Mozart one? Just wondering.

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The acoustics are so awful that if the recording had been mine I wouldn't have dared to upload it to Youtube. Sorry, no aspersions on the performance, which might be excellent if only it were audible to a reasonable standard.

J'ajoute mon merci. Dans mon pays (au Moyen Orient) on n'entend que rarement Pierné sur notre radio classique - quel dommage! J'étais sûr qu'en France on le jouait beaucoup plus - non?

@imaguy817 hey, what's this about making fun of the bloke's name? you do that only if you're trying to be nasty, which you shouldn't be given that he's uploaded some great music.

First time I've ever seen tags in Georgian (or is it Armenian?)

I've been a devotee of Ries ever since listening to his Piano Concerto No.8. He has indeed been getting the attention he deserves in discography, and it's high time he was promoted to the concert repertoire too.