Archive for September, 2010
Nelson Freire plays Beethoven Waldstein Sonata (piano sonata Op. 53 No. 21) at the 2007 Verbier Festival. This is an excerpt from the first movement : Allegro con brio. Watch the full concert in Very High Definition on medici.tv : www.medici.tv
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Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Waltz No6 in D flat, Op.64 No1 Minute Waltz Valsa Minuto.
Mozart composed this concerto at the end of 1773, about the same time as the “little G minor” Symphony No. 25, as shows about as much promise of genius and fun as the symphony.
The great virtuoso Malcolm Frager beautifully scales back his formidable technique to play this rather simple and charming concerto with terrific wit and a smile.
Malcolm Frager was born in 1935, started studying the piano at six, and at 10 he had his premiere with the St. Louis Symphony. Carl Friedberg, a pupil and freind of Clara Schumann, was his teacher at Juilliard and trained him in the great Romantic traditon.
Mozart Piano Concerto In D Major, K. 175 No.5, first movement: Allegro
Malcolm Frager, Steinway piano, with the orchestra of Italian Language Radio and Television of Switzerland, under Marc Andreae.
Recorded Live at the Teatro Scientifico Del Bibiena, Mantua, 19 April 1989.
Orchestra della Radio-televisione della Svizzera Italiana, Leitung: Marc Andreae
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Klavierkonzert Nr. 05, D-Dur, KV 175
Piano Concerto No.5 in D, 2. Andante ma un poco adagio Malcolm Frager- Piano Marc Andreae – Conductor Orchestra of Italian Language Radio and Television of Switzerland Dance: English Baroque Festival – Malcolm Frager Biography- Malcolm Frager (1935-1991) was an American pianist. Frager was born in St. Louis, Missouri and studied with Carl Friedberg in New York City from 1949 until Friedberg’s death in 1955. In 1957 he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University with a major in Russian. He won the Piano Competition in Geneva (1955), the Michaels Memorial Award in Chicago (1956), the Leventritt Competition in New York (1959), and the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels (1960). His Grammy-nominated debut recording with RCA Victor Red Seal was Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 and Haydn’s Sonata No. 35 in E-flat. He recorded music by Mozart, Haydn, Chopin, Schumann, Beethoven, Brahms and Prokofiev. Frager regularly programmed the two piano concertos and numerous solo works by Carl Maria von Weber, as well as the keyboard compositions of CPE Bach. Frager’s personal library is now housed at the Sibley Library Special Collections at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. His discovery of manuscripts includes a version of the Fantasie in A minor that later became the first movement of the Piano Concerto in A minor by Robert Schumann. He premiered this with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorf at the …
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Part 4 of 4. Claudio Arrau plays Piano Concerto #4 by Beethoven. Mvt 3. Rondo – Vivace Biography: Claudio Arrau León (February 6, 1903 June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Liszt. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. Arrau was born in Chillán, Chile, the son of opthamologist, Carlos Arrau, and Lucrecia León Bravo de Villalba, a piano teacher. He belonged to an old, prominent family of Southern Chile. His ancestor Lorenzo de Arrau was sent to Chile by King Carlos III of Spain. Through his great-grandmother, María del Carmen Daroch del Solar, Arrau was a descendant of the Campbells of Glenorchy, a Scottish noble family. Arrau was a child prodigy, giving his first concert at age five. At age seven he was sent on a Chilean government grant to study in Germany, at the Stern conservatory of Berlin where he was a pupil of Martin Krause, who had studied under Franz Liszt. At the age of 11 he could play Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes, considered to be one of the most difficult sets of works ever written for the piano, and also Brahms’s Paganini Variations. Arrau’s first recordings were on Aeolian Duo-Art player piano music rolls. In 1937, Arrau married German Jewish mezzo-soprano Ruth Schneider, and they had three children: Carmen (1938-2006), Mario (1940-1988) and Christopher (1959). The Arraus …
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Part 3 of 4. Claudio Arrau plays Piano Concerto #4 by Beethoven Mvt. 2. Andante con moto. Biography: Claudio Arrau León (February 6, 1903 June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Liszt. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. Arrau was born in Chillán, Chile, the son of opthamologist, Carlos Arrau, and Lucrecia León Bravo de Villalba, a piano teacher. He belonged to an old, prominent family of Southern Chile. His ancestor Lorenzo de Arrau was sent to Chile by King Carlos III of Spain. Through his great-grandmother, María del Carmen Daroch del Solar, Arrau was a descendant of the Campbells of Glenorchy, a Scottish noble family. Arrau was a child prodigy, giving his first concert at age five. At age seven he was sent on a Chilean government grant to study in Germany, at the Stern conservatory of Berlin where he was a pupil of Martin Krause, who had studied under Franz Liszt. At the age of 11 he could play Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes, considered to be one of the most difficult sets of works ever written for the piano, and also Brahms’s Paganini Variations. Arrau’s first recordings were on Aeolian Duo-Art player piano music rolls. In 1937, Arrau married German Jewish mezzo-soprano Ruth Schneider, and they had three children: Carmen (1938-2006), Mario (1940-1988) and Christopher (1959). The Arraus …
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Part 2 of 4. Claudio Arrau plays Piano Concerto #4 by Beethoven. Mvt 1. Allegro Moderato (Contd) Biography: Claudio Arrau León (February 6, 1903 June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Liszt. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. Arrau was born in Chillán, Chile, the son of opthamologist, Carlos Arrau, and Lucrecia León Bravo de Villalba, a piano teacher. He belonged to an old, prominent family of Southern Chile. His ancestor Lorenzo de Arrau was sent to Chile by King Carlos III of Spain. Through his great-grandmother, María del Carmen Daroch del Solar, Arrau was a descendant of the Campbells of Glenorchy, a Scottish noble family. Arrau was a child prodigy, giving his first concert at age five. At age seven he was sent on a Chilean government grant to study in Germany, at the Stern conservatory of Berlin where he was a pupil of Martin Krause, who had studied under Franz Liszt. At the age of 11 he could play Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes, considered to be one of the most difficult sets of works ever written for the piano, and also Brahms’s Paganini Variations. Arrau’s first recordings were on Aeolian Duo-Art player piano music rolls. In 1937, Arrau married German Jewish mezzo-soprano Ruth Schneider, and they had three children: Carmen (1938-2006), Mario (1940-1988) and Christopher (1959). The …
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Part 1 of 4. Claudio Arrau plays Piano Concerto #4 by Beethoven. Mvt 1. Allegro Moderato Biography: Claudio Arrau León (February 6, 1903 June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Liszt. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. Arrau was born in Chillán, Chile, the son of opthamologist, Carlos Arrau, and Lucrecia León Bravo de Villalba, a piano teacher. He belonged to an old, prominent family of Southern Chile. His ancestor Lorenzo de Arrau was sent to Chile by King Carlos III of Spain. Through his great-grandmother, María del Carmen Daroch del Solar, Arrau was a descendant of the Campbells of Glenorchy, a Scottish noble family. Arrau was a child prodigy, giving his first concert at age five. At age seven he was sent on a Chilean government grant to study in Germany, at the Stern conservatory of Berlin where he was a pupil of Martin Krause, who had studied under Franz Liszt. At the age of 11 he could play Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes, considered to be one of the most difficult sets of works ever written for the piano, and also Brahms’s Paganini Variations. Arrau’s first recordings were on Aeolian Duo-Art player piano music rolls. In 1937, Arrau married German Jewish mezzo-soprano Ruth Schneider, and they had three children: Carmen (1938-2006), Mario (1940-1988) and Christopher (1959). The Arraus …
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