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FERNANDO OLIVA   16/1/2004	Subject: FELIP PEDRELL Message: Dear Friends, I request you, as Classical Music experts, information about the Catalonian Romantic Composer Felip Pedrell. Did he wrote orchestral works? Last year his Opera "Els Pirineus" (The Pyrinees) was performed on Barcelona´s Great Opera Theater Liceo. I only know he was born in Tortosa (Tarragona, Spain) and lived much time in Germany and Austria, when was introduced to the young Gustav Mahler. Marc Vignal mentioned him on his Mahler´s Biography, during Laibach (Ljubljana) period. Thanks in advance, and kind regards from Barcelona. Cheers, Fernando.
Mark   16/1/2004	RE: FELIP PEDRELL IP: Logged Message: Hello Fernando, He has an entry in Grove almost as big as Raff's! Felipe Pedrell (Tortosa 1841 - Barcelona 1922) was a chorister in Tortosa and studied with Serra before moving to Barcelona in 1873 to work for an opera company. He spent some time in Italy and in Paris before returning to Barcelona in 1881. He moved to Madrid in 1894 and became a professor at the conservatory, returning finally to Barcelona in 1904. He is regarded (it says) as the founder of modern Spanish musicology and wrote many books and published collections of Spanish music. As a composer he wrote 14 operas and four zarzuelas, several sacred choral works, seven early orchestral pieces, together with some songs and piano pieces. The orchestral works are listed as: Elegia e Romea 1875 La veu de las montanyas 1877 Marche triomphale 1878 2 Gavottes 1879 & 1880 Suite: I trionfi 1880 Otger 1885 His operas include Quasimodo, Mazeppa, Cleopâtre, Little Carmen and Los Pirineos - a Wagnerian trilogy about which Pederell later published a book to explain it! The message of Groves seems to be that he was eventually regarded, even by himself, as a better writer and musicologist than he was a composer. Fascinating - I had never heard of him....
FERNANDO OLIVA   16/1/2004	RE: FELIP PEDRELL IP: Logged Message: Dear Mark: Thanks a lot for your information! I am also fascinate: I am Spanish, Catalonian (and Barcelonese) and NEVER listened any Pedrell´s work. I will try to find any Pedrell discography. Kind regards, Fernando.
FERNANDO OLIVA   21/1/2004	RE: FELIP PEDRELL IP: Logged Message: Dear Friends, I want add to Pedrell´s information this link from Catalonian Enciclopedy (in English), with extensive information on Pedrell´s life and works http://www.grec.net/cgibin/hecangcl.pgm?&USUARI=&SESSIO=&NDCHEC=0049658&PGMORI=E Cheers, Fernando.
Mark   20/2/2004	RE: FELIP PEDRELL IP: Logged Message: Fernando, If you'd like to see a picture of Pedrell, go to: www.klassiekemuziekgids.net/componisten/pedrell.htm
FERNANDO OLIVA   23/2/2004	RE: FELIP PEDRELL IP: Logged Message: Dear Mark and friends: Thanks a lot for the Pedrell picture! I am very busy for now discovering the British Classical Music. I have listened Elgar, Bax, Standford and V-Williams works. I also listened the Schmidt 4th. I liked it very much and I´m hoping to write some letters about it. Thanks a lot John! My friend Greg introduced me to the Chadwick and Standford music. I like specially the Chadwick 2nd. Symphony. Thaks a lot Greg! As for the Raff, I am still searching for the Vol 2 of Violin & Piano music on CPO and the Violin concerto. I get the opportunity to send all my Classical MUsic friends Kind regards from Barcelona, Cheers, Fernando.
Mark   24/2/2004	RE: FELIP PEDRELL IP: Logged Message: Amongst British composers, I do recommend Stanford - a very fine and underated composer and, that unusual thing in Britain at the time, someone who managed NOT to sound like Brahms. Try his Symphonies Nos.4-6, the Piano Concerto No.2 and the Violin Concerto, the Requiem and Stabat Mater. I would love to hear one of his many operas. Parry, someone who Fernando didn't mention, does sound like Brahms but he has a very individual voice nonetheless - the Symphony No.5 and the superb Symphonic Variations are very well worth a listen. I've just "discovered" Frederik Cliffe (courtesy of the Sterling label). His Symphony No.1 is greatly enjoyable, even if it does sound resemble early Stanford... I'm always surprised that Chadwick's 1st. Symphony remains unrecorded - the other two and the rest of his orchestral music are really quite fine. As to the Raff disks, the German site jpc - www.jpc.de - has both these CDs. Expensive, but comprehensive.