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Don Satz asked:
>Are any of you familiar with Fesca's compositions, and would you label
>Fesca a romantic, a classicist, or perhaps too diverse to label at all?
Tough call, Don. I have the Septet #1 in C Minor on a 1972 Turnabout
LP coupled with one by Hummel. Both composers inhabit that transitional
twilight period between classical and Romantic, and I've always had trouble
coming up with a satisfactory label for it, always assuming that giving it
one is a worthwhile exercise. The notes say that Fesca used the Schubert
Trout Quintet as a model, but to my ears, the music is stylistically more
like Beethoven than anyone, with some touches of Mendelssohn in some of
the piano writing. I just played my LP to reacquaint myself with it and
it sounded a little scratchy, which suggests a CD might be needed...
Richard Pennycuick
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