Unsung Heroes
We are very pleased to present this e-cital entitled Unsung Heroes, dedicated to the efforts of those composers who poured their lives and resources into largely thankless work. In a modest attempt to right this wrong we all hope that, through this presentation, these long-hidden treasures may be brought to light and introduced to a wider audience.
We wish to thank our performers who have devoted many hours to preparation of these pieces, and hope they may receive their well-deserved mead of appreciation from others.
We wish to thank you, the listener, for taking the the time to download and hear these performances and hope you enjoy them! We cordially invite you to participate in our discussion board - just click the linked number under the "Discussion" column.
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And now, without further ado...
| Performer | Name | Composer | Title | Op./No. | Listen | Thoughts | Discussion |
| Orange Soda King | Ethan James McCollum | Charles-Valentin Alkan | Etude in G Major | 35/3 | This piece is a study in melodic tremolo, and a very tri...(More) | 13 | |
| Rachfan | David April | Georgy Catoire | Quatre Morceaux: Chant du soir | 12/1 | Georges Catoire (1861-1926) was a late romantic Russian-...(More) | 20 | |
| Rachfan | David April | Georgy Catoire | Quatre Morceaux: Meditation | 12/2 | Georges Catoire (1861-1926) was a late romantic Russian-...(More) | 8 | |
| Rachfan | David April | Georgy Catoire | Quatre Morceaux: Nocturne | 12/3 | Georges Catoire (1861-1926) was a late romantic Russian-...(More) | 9 | |
| Rachfan | David April | Georgy Catoire | Quatre Morceaux: Etude Fantastique | 12/4 | Georges Catoire (1861-1926) was a late romantic Russian-...(More) | 18 | |
| Inlanding | Glen Rosenthal | Reinhold M. Glière | Prélude | 43/1 | Glière had an interesting and historically significant ...(More) | 6 | |
| dannylux | Mel | Vasily Kalinnikov | Moderato in e flat minor | Vasily Kalinnikov (1866-1901) had a short and difficult ...(More) | 6 | ||
| dannylux | Mel | Tomás León | Ilusión Y Desengaño | "Illusion and Disappointment" (Ilusión Y Desengaño) is...(More) | 6 | ||
| dannylux | Mel | Sergei Bortkiewicz | Prelude in F# Major | 33/7 | Listening to the music of Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952)...(More) | 8 | |
| dannylux | Mel | Sergei Bortkiewicz | Prelude in D flat | 33/8 | The next Prelude in the Op.33 set is No.8 in D flat. | 5 | |
| Cinnamonbear | Andy Strong | Alexandre Tansman | Venus | Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) was a French-based, Polish...(More) | 18 | ||
| heidiv | Heidi | Medtner | Canzona Serenata | 38/6 | Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951) was born in Russia and died ...(More) | 8 | |
| heidiv | Heidi | Godowsky | Alt Wien | "Old Vienna: Whose Yesterdays Look Backward With a Smile...(More) | 8 | ||
| currawong | Le Gallienne | Nocturne | Le Gallienne was an Australian composer who was born in ...(More) | 11 | |||
| gerg | Greg Hedger | Fauré | Nocturne | 33/3 | Gabriel Fauré, though perhaps less obscure than other c...(More) | 7 | |
| dannylux | Mel | Charles Mayer | Etude in Waltz Form | 83 | Charles Mayer (1799-1862), the teacher of Glinka, wrote ...(More) | 6 | |
| dannylux | Mel | Mikhail Glinka | Nocturne in E flat | Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857) wrote this beautiful Nocturne...(More) | 4 | ||
| Canonie | Canonie's Friends | Canonie | Lucy's Song | I would like to dedicate this submission to those musici...(More) | 10 | ||
| dannylux | Mel | Felix Blumenfeld | Prelude in D flat | 17/15 | Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931) was the teacher of Horowitz...(More) | 3 | |
| Carey | Phil Jones | Franck | Prelude, Fugue et Variation (PRELUDE) | This hauntingly beautiful work by Cesar Franck was compo...(More) | 4 | ||
| Carey | Phil Jones | Franck | Prelude, Fugue et Variation (FUGUE) | 4 | |||
| Carey | Phil Jones | Franck | Prelude, Fugue et Variation (VARIATION) | 5 | |||
| Yamaha G3 & P-80 | Mike White | Astor Piazzolla | Invierno Porteno | I submitted this piece in one of the Adult Beginner Reci...(More) | 6 | ||
| SlatterFan | Julian | Goossens | Kaleidoscope (selection) | 18/2 | Eugene Goossens (1893 - 1962) was an English composer an...(More) | 13 | |
| dannylux | Mel | Manuel Maria Ponce | Bersagliera | Manuel Maria Ponce (1882-1948) combined French Impressio...(More) | 4 | ||
| dannylux | Mel | Manuel Maria Ponce | Gavota in D flat | This would be my choice for the finest Gavotte ever written. | 6 | ||
| dannylux | Mel | Manuel Maria Ponce | Intermezzo in e minor | Hauntingly beautiful. | 4 | ||
| gerg | Greg Hedger | Chabrier | Scherzo-Valse from Pièces Pittoresque | Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) was a French composer heav...(More) | 10 | ||
| SlatterFan | Julian | Bennett | The Lake | William Sterndate Bennett (1816 - 1875) was an English p...(More) | 5 | ||
| Sorcerer88 | Alkan | Canon | 65/3 | In this piece the two hands literally sing a canon, the ...(More) | 4 | ||
| Jeffrey Jones | Clef | Rosenberg | Sonata No. 3 | The first two movements of Hilding Rosenberg's Third Son...(More) | 10 | ||
| wr | Alkan | Nocturne | 22 | 6 | |||
| beet31425 | Jason | David Thomas Roberts | Two Pieces I: In One Isolation | Two Pieces (1976), "In One Isolation" and "My Unseen" a...(More) | 7 | ||
| wr | Medtner | Skazka (Tale) | 31/3 | 9 | |||
| gerg | Greg Hedger | Suzuki | Lightly Row in C Major | It is rumored that, while on tour in Berlin, Evgenny Kis...(More) | 13 | ||
| beet31425 | Jason | David Thomas Roberts | Two Pieces II: My Unseen | Two Pieces (1976), "In One Isolation" and "My Unseen" a...(More) | 12 | ||
| Sorcerer88 | Kapustin | Concert Etude Pastorale | 40/6 | Nikolai Kapustin combines the jazz idiom (harmonies, ryt...(More) | 8 |
