Nikhil Hogan Show

Music interview podcast. Interested in Partimento, Music Schema Theory, Counterpoint, Hexachordal Solfeggio, Basso Continuo, Critiques of Modern Music Education, Gregorian Chant, Catholic Sacred Music, Renaissance Polyphony, Filmscoring, and more!

144: Sietze de Vries (Classical Improviser, Organist) 05/17/2024

158: Nicholas Baragwanath (Hexachordal Italian Solfeggio) 05/17/2024

157: Ewald Demeyere (Fedele Fenaroli's Partimenti and Pedagogy) 04/01/2024

154: Partimento Panel (Gjerdingen, Sanguinetti, van Tour, Cafiero) 03/01/2024

174: Niels Berentsen (1300-1500 Polyphony | Improvising Vocal Counterpoint) 02/01/2024

167: Solfeggio Panel (Baragwanath, Gjerdingen, IJzerman, van Tour) 02/01/2024

177: Robert O. Gjerdingen (Music Schema Theory) 01/01/2024

156: Peter Schubert (Palestrina, Fux, Counterpoint) 12/24/2023

141: Job IJzerman (Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento) 12/21/2023

140: Wim Winters (Whole Beat Metronome Principle) 08/01/2023

140: Wim Winters (Whole Beat Metronome Principle) Intro Start When did you start your YouTube channel, and when did you shift from recording performances to research into Whole Beat? Which composers used the clavichord? Did playing the Clavichord change the way you played Organ? What is the Clavichord's touch like? Piano vs Clavichord What if we had to reconstruct jazz without having access to any sound recordings but rely only on written transcriptions Weren't there musical mechanical clocks during Haydn's time that captured authentic 18th-century musical performance practice? What is the Whole Beat Metronome Principle (WBMP)? Wim responds to people playing Czerny at single beat tempo If Whole Beat is true, why do students and eye-witnesses of the great composers play so fast? Was Beethoven's metronome broken? Don't the flyers and concert bills that advertise the concerts of these composers invalidate Whole Beat because the concerts would be too long as opposed to their actual advertised length? What has been the general response to your research overall? Injuries: The unspoken dark side of performance careers in Classical music Beethoven recording gets canned because the musicians' careers got threatened The most powerful classical music agent Ronald Wilford wouldn't allow Cyprien Katsaris to record/perform piano transcriptions if under contract What does Wim think of partimento and classical improvisation? Wim's favorite composers Great compositions sound great slowed down, maybe even better than how they are typically played fast today Whole Beat can't work because vocal music is impossible if singers have to hold notes that long Carl Czerny: Whole Beat or Single Beat? Beethoven: Whole Beat or Single Beat? Mozart: Whole Beat or Single Beat? Franz Liszt: Whole Beat or Single Beat? Did Paris Conservatory graduates historically think in terms of Whole Beat? Alkan: Whole Beat or Single Beat? Tchaikovsky: Whole Beat or Single Beat? Rachmaninoff: Whole Beat or Single Beat? Debussy and Ravel: Whole Beat or Single Beat? Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky: Whole Beat or Single Beat? What tempo should people play Bach? Wrapping Up Outro /episode/index/show/nikhilhoganshow/id/27619572

139: Peter Seivewright 07/05/2023

139: Peter Seivewright PETER SEIVEWRIGHT has received a Special Judges’ Citation in The American Prize Ernst Bacon Award for the Performance of American Music competition, in the professional solo artist division. Peter Seivewright, honored for “Championing American Piano Music,” was selected from applications reviewed recently from all across the United States and the United Kingdom, and the citation awarded for his Divine Art album ‘American Piano Sonatas‘. Peter Seivewright has performed extensively as a recitalist and as Piano Concerto soloist with leading professional Orchestras throughout Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Austria, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Denmark (eight recital tours), Latvia, Estonia, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Australia (four recital tours), China, India, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States of America, Russia, and the Donetsk People’s Republic. Peter Seivewright’s CD discography is extensive and includes: The Complete Piano Music of Carl Nielsen (2CDs – Naxos), Contemporary Scottish Piano Music, (Merlin), the major piano works by the Danish Romantic composer Victor Bendix (1851-1926) (Rondo Records, Copenhagen), and several CDs issued by The Divine Art Recordings Group, for whom he now records exclusively. Peter is working through a series of CDs for Divine Art featuring the complete Piano Sonatas of Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785), the last great composer of the independent Venetian Republic. In 2007 Divine Art released a double CD comprising the major piano works of the Danish composer Louis Glass (1864-1936).Other Divine Art recordings include a disc of J.S.Bach Piano Concertos and a CD featuring American Piano Sonatas, which was exceptionally critically well-received, and which is currently a finalist for the Ernst Bacon Award in THE AMERICAN PRIZE 2018. Future recording plans include several more sets of American Piano Sonatas, more J.S.Bach and music by Reger, Cyril Scott, and Olivier Messiaen. /episode/index/show/nikhilhoganshow/id/27371913

138: Nicholas Baragwanath 06/20/2022

138: Nicholas Baragwanath 0:00 Start 1:34 How has the book, "The Solfeggio Tradition", been received? 6:43 Italian solfeggio explained in 4 minutes 11:41 Should children delay singing solfeggio until their voice has broken? 14:15 Did 18th-century plainsong sound more like galant music rather than medieval music? 16:10 What about Palestrina? 19:35 An example of a lesson in Italian solfeggio 22:33 How do you learn to accompany a melody line by sight with the correct harmony? 28:00 How do you follow the rules of counterpoint when switching between hexachords? 32:33 How do you know when there is a change of syllable vs a continuation of a melisma? 34:57 Does the appoggiatura take the target note's syllable or have its own? 36:20 Up 4th Down 5th Bass Motion in Italian Solfeggio 37:19 Mozart improvisation solfeggio lesson (K. 545) 41:19 Notation is the curse of the modern musician 48:02 Did Mozart know Italian solfeggio? 51:10 Why did the Germans complain about the Italians keeping solfeggio as a trade secret? 53:11 Were violinists like Paganini, Corelli and Vivaldi familiar with Italian solfeggio? 57:11 Did the Italian Maestros abandon teaching solfeggio syllables if the students struggled with pitch? 59:11 Did Italian solfeggio completely die out in the 19th-century? 1:00:49 Did Italian musicians think of the bass in terms of solfeggio syllables? 1:05:56 What was the 18th-century Italian understanding of Keys and Tonality? 1:09:02 What are good solfeggio manuscripts to practice to with and how much proportion of time is spent worrying about syllable placement vs actual singing? 1:12:10 Do we have access to 18th-century plainchant that doesn't sound like medieval music? 1:17:19 Is there any value to practicing solfeggi exercises with "Ah" even if we don't know which syllables to use? 1:18:45 What are your favorite solfeggi collections? 1:19:46 What's your opinion on Johann Fux and his method of teaching counterpoint? 1:21:19 What do you think of Nicola Sala's counterpoint treatise? 1:22:39 How does your solfeggio expertise inform the way you would teach partimento? 1:25:08 Are those manuals of singing by maestros who changed to Fixed Do still useful for learning diminution? 1:25:57 What's the state of Italian solfeggio research today? /episode/index/show/nikhilhoganshow/id/23479280