Spohr Concerto no9 - Erica Morini

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A few random things I would like to mention:
- She studied with Sevick
- It was Fritz Kreisler that once said "no one plays Kreisler like Morini"

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Spohr was the arch-rival, anthesis, and nemesis (and any other word you can think of ending with '...esis') of Paganini, I suspect this was because he was jealous of the talents the greatest fiddler and arguably most influential and revolutionary creator of music the world has ever known (as evidence of this consider what music was like before and after him and how many of the greatest masters wrote variations on his themes and imitated the techniques he invented).

The most important event related to the resurrection of Spohr's music was the recording Hilary Hahn made of his 8th concerto paired with Paganini's shredfest. I can not begin to express my gratitide to have a leading soloist playing the music of a neglected 19th century master. I have recenly noticed the 6 cd box of the complete concertos of Spohr has gone out of print. ...ummm could I be persuaded to upload all of them?

It is my hope that a whole generation of new violinists will follow her example by recording, performing, and preserving neglected music of the romantic masters. I dream of a series of box set recordings, live performances, and DVDs of the music of Beroit, Rode, Sauret, etc - recorded by Ehnes, Kaler, Kavakos, Mintz, Repin, etc and also recitals filled with this kind of music. If that ever happened I would truly be in fiddle nirvana!

In addition to that, I think of what a recital was really like back then, for example imagine Paganini playing a Viotti concerto but using his own cadenza or better yet, improvising a solo using a cadenza as a guideline. Then after that go on to play his own music. Perhaps Kreisler was the last violinist to do that? But what if a whole new generation of players started doing that again? It doesn't hurt to encourage people and make suggestions does it? Am I asking too many questions?

I wanted to point out the very recent recordings (many of them are world premieres) of the neglected music of beroit, suaret, rode, kreutzer, bazzini, viotti, vieuxtemps, joachim, hubay, lalo, saint saens, sarasate, wieniawski, and ferdinand david on the labels naxos, chandos, hyperion, and dynamic featuring soloists such as gringolts, charlier, graffin, aand hagai shaham.

I want to especially congratulate Hyperion for launching a massive series of recordings of 19th century violin concertos including many composers I have never even heard of. My fear is that if we do not support their efforts the recordings (and scores) will go out of print and get lost or forgotten.

You can bet if these recordings ever do go out of print, I will upload them if I ever have a chance to get them all before they do. People please listen and do me a favor and pay money for this stuff. Is anyone listening? Does a tree make a sound in the forest if no one is there to hear it? Does it do any good to scream at a brick wall?

Another thing I wanted to mention is a person I'm pretty sure is someone from violinist.com known as Brahm. He has a channel at youtube known as henrivieuxtemps that has a disgusting amount of videos with sheet music scores synched to the music I have mentioned above. He is even more of a violin maniac than me and alot of those videos feature the music of composers I have never heard of. I must insist that everyone and their mom goto his channel and applaud all his work.

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