Walter Macfarren : 5th Mazurka Charactéristique

Walter Macfarren (18261905) and his brother George Alexander Macfarren (1813-87) were key figures in Victorian music, and at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where both were professors, and the latter eventually Principal. Walter taught piano at the RAM for almost 60 years, and Tobias Matthay was one of his students there. In his notes for the recent Hyperion recording by Howard Shelley of Macfarren's Concertstück for piano and orchestra, Nicholas Temperley remarks that: 'His vast output of piano pieces is tuneful, amiable and unambitious' . That is probably a fair comment on this piece, which is nevertheless interesting as a British piano piece of the era influenced by Chopin rather than Mendelssohn.
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Played by Phillip Sear
http://www.psear.co.uk

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[nunoperalta5]

Congratulations, man :)

[PSearPianist]

Thank you!

[WatchBlueSkies]

Never heard of it it before. Very nice ! thank You, and: good plaing ! bravo!

[PSearPianist]

Thank you. Hardly anyone has heard of this piece - maybe this is its first recording?

[brcmano]

Nice playing. It sounds to me that the freezing weather of England changed the sound of your piano a bit.

[PSearPianist]

Thank you. You are quite right about the piano tuning - but there is not a lot I can do in the short term. If I get it tuned immediately, another sudden spell of cold weather will put it out again. I think I have to take the view that some works will come out better than others, and I will soldier on!

[brcmano]

I know exactly what you mean, while in England cold weather mistreat your piano, in Brazil, where I live, my piano cannot hold any tuning at all because of terrible variations of humidity.

[PSearPianist]

Thank you - the beginning is certainly interesting.

[PSearPianist]

Thank you. Julius Benedict was certainly a very talented composer - I will have to find some of his music.

[Babejuda]

The beginning is very interesting - like a recitative to an operatic-aria, or a prelude to a ballade - certainly not to a Mazurka. Bravo for the performance.