Henri Herz - Rondo alla Cosacca op. 2 (first recording) скачать в хорошем качестве

Henri Herz - Rondo alla Cosacca op. 2 (first recording)

In preparation for a video about Henri Herz and his life, I began reading through all of his solo piano works available on IMSLP in the hope of finding some interesting pieces that haven't been recorded yet. Aside from his contribution to the famous "Hexameron" collaborative piece written by Liszt, Thalberg, Herz, Pixis, Czerny, and Chopin, I soon realized that probably 95% of his solo music has never been recorded, and although I don't expect to find any "undiscovered masterpieces" on the level of his more well-known contemporaries (Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, etc.), it seems extremely unfair that there aren't even recordings of most of his works by which people might be able to judge the quality of the music for themselves as opposed to relying on the heavily biased criticisms of Schumann, etc. After all, this is the type of music the general public in France especially would've been used to hearing and playing during the first half of the 19th century (for instance, they most definitely were not listening to sonatas and symphonies in France during that period - both genres were so unpopular that they were considered "dead" by most critics), so for anyone interested in the history of that period, I think it's important to have actual recordings available of this music in order to reconstruct the "soundscape" of that time. A couple of side notes: 1. For those interested in older notation, check out the way the double sharps are written around 3:56. 2. Schumann and some other critics actually went so far as to mock Herz for being so specific with his notation, particularly his use of expressive terms, which to me seems downright childish. I found all the expressive terms useful in this piece when it came to clarifying the character of each section. 3. At the start of the score, it says the piece is by "Herz jeune" or "Herz junior." This was to distinguish him from his older brother Jacques Herz who was initially more well-known that Henri. However, within just a few years of graduating from the Paris Conservatoire (where Henri would later be a professor for 30+ years), Henri Herz quickly became far more famous than his brother, so you'll notice that pretty early on in his works, "junior" is dropped from the title pages of pieces. By that point (the early to mid-1820s), the name "Herz" was almost exclusively associated with Henri anyway, so there was no longer any need to make the distinction.