Thanks a lot for this concerto and the subsequent number 2. It's unbelievable how a very good composer like Steibelt is criminally underrated and mostly forgotten. Whatever I happen to encounter it's as a minimum good music, often great music. He's unfortunately solely remembered for the infamous defeat in an improvisation's challenge in Vienna against Beethoven. As much as Beethoven is the greatest (or amongst the greatest) of all times, Steibelt would certainly deserve a much better destiny and more executions of his works. Coming to his 7 piano concertos you have filled out the gap but you made me curious about his 8th ...... God knows if there's any extant score...... It's still desirable that Shelley would opt one day to complete Steibelt recording and perhaps even catch up with piano sonatas, also not entirely available. However your choice is very much appreciated: at least we can guess how the music would be and, my firs reaction, concertos number 1 & 2 are as good as Ferdinand Ries jobs.
Yes, the 8th would be very interesting to hear as it's apparently one of the first piano concerti to include a chorus. (Beethoven once again beat him to the punch with the Choral Fantasy, but that's not quite a concerto.) Another unrecorded piano concerto including a chorus is the Henri Herz #6, which is the only one of his 8 that Shelley did not record. From what I hear the orchestral parts have been lost, so I've been working on a reconstruction based on the cues in the piano solo part. I can't synthesize the voices, however, so that one is going to be questionable.
@@Darrel_Hoffman yes thanks I very much regret Shelley did not record HH #6. But would be interesting to hear your reconstruction. It's sad how much music have been lost due to war, fire, careless attitude, self or posthumous destruction, etc. (my favorite rediscover would be the cello romances of Schumann destroyed by Clara: if only one additional manuscript existed, hidden somewhere by Joachim who salvaged violin concerto by miracle ..... Also Sibelius whole eight symphony would not be bad ..... )
It'll be posted here eventually, but obviously a reconstruction takes much more work than mere transcriptions, so this will take a bit longer. Part of the problem is that while the piano reduction does tell you vaguely what instruments are doing what during the Tutti sections, you get no such clues at all during the piano parts, so my arrangement may end up being a bit sparse for that, but it's better than nothing.
Thanks a lot for this concerto and the subsequent number 2. It's unbelievable how a very good composer like Steibelt is criminally underrated and mostly forgotten. Whatever I happen to encounter it's as a minimum good music, often great music.
He's unfortunately solely remembered for the infamous defeat in an improvisation's challenge in Vienna against Beethoven.
As much as Beethoven is the greatest (or amongst the greatest) of all times, Steibelt would certainly deserve a much better destiny and more executions of his works.
Coming to his 7 piano concertos you have filled out the gap but you made me curious about his 8th ...... God knows if there's any extant score......
It's still desirable that Shelley would opt one day to complete Steibelt recording and perhaps even catch up with piano sonatas, also not entirely available.
However your choice is very much appreciated: at least we can guess how the music would be and, my firs reaction, concertos number 1 & 2 are as good as Ferdinand Ries jobs.
Yes, the 8th would be very interesting to hear as it's apparently one of the first piano concerti to include a chorus. (Beethoven once again beat him to the punch with the Choral Fantasy, but that's not quite a concerto.)
Another unrecorded piano concerto including a chorus is the Henri Herz #6, which is the only one of his 8 that Shelley did not record. From what I hear the orchestral parts have been lost, so I've been working on a reconstruction based on the cues in the piano solo part. I can't synthesize the voices, however, so that one is going to be questionable.
@@Darrel_Hoffman yes thanks I very much regret Shelley did not record HH #6. But would be interesting to hear your reconstruction. It's sad how much music have been lost due to war, fire, careless attitude, self or posthumous destruction, etc. (my favorite rediscover would be the cello romances of Schumann destroyed by Clara: if only one additional manuscript existed, hidden somewhere by Joachim who salvaged violin concerto by miracle ..... Also Sibelius whole eight symphony would not be bad ..... )
It'll be posted here eventually, but obviously a reconstruction takes much more work than mere transcriptions, so this will take a bit longer. Part of the problem is that while the piano reduction does tell you vaguely what instruments are doing what during the Tutti sections, you get no such clues at all during the piano parts, so my arrangement may end up being a bit sparse for that, but it's better than nothing.
@@Darrel_Hoffman God bless your pioneering job. Very much appreciated!