On 27 May 2008 at 15:38, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > I've heard a recording of Cambini's music-- it was another sinfonia > concertante (one of dozen's that survive). It could have > been the performance, but the music was boring beyond tears.
Be careful making conclusions about the worth of a composer's music based on recordings. A committed recording can make seemingly unremarkable music seem magical. Also, some styles of music are intensely rhetorical and if played "as written" will be boring as hell (French Baroque is a perfect example of this). > The > chamber music seems a bit more important though and > Grove's has suggested Cambini's music was vitally important for the > string quartet in France. > > I ask for some thoughts, because I don't want to waste a lot of money > on ordering reproductions of his music if it turns out > to be garbage ;-) I dunno, but I'd be very interested in helping out if you're doing the keyboard chamber music, since it is related to my dissertation research. I haven't looked at New New Grove or the new MGG entries on Cambini, but the work lists in the previous editions were a complete and confusing mess. The works I have in my piano quartets & quintets database are: OP 7 - 6 QUARTETS FOR PIANO AND STRINGS (from Götz 1784 catalog, may be an error) OP 10 - 6 QUARTETS FOR PIANO AND STRINGS IN C,F,Bb,G,C,A QUARTET FOR PIANO, FLUTE AND STRINGS IN D (listed in Traeg 1799 catalog, possibly a different Cambini) QUARTET FOR PIANO AND STRINGS (listed on Boyer 1786 catalog) Basically, only the op. 10 (Durie) is indentifiable according to my research. It's RISM C399 and is held only by one library, S-Skm. Is the New New Grove article significantly updated? -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
