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2022-03-29 21:13:45
The Swiss-born London-based pianist Albert Ferber (1911-1987) studied with Karl Leimer, as well as with Leimer’s most prominent pupil Walter Gieseking. During the war years, Ferber conducted theater orchestras, wrote film scores, and worked as an accompanist. From 1945 through 1951 Ferber made a handful of recordings for British Decca. All are reissued here, along […]
2020-12-09 00:00:00
The BNF Collection Part 1
[…] Festival de Prades 1952 Johannes Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 String Quintet No. 2 Joseph Szigeti violin Isaac Stern violin Myra Hess piano Paul Tortelier cello Recorded 1952 Bela Bartok Solo Piano Works (including Mikrokosmos, Piano Sonata etc) Andor Foldes Recorded/Published 1955 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 Walter Gieseking piano Philharmonia Orchestra Rafael Kubelik Reorded 1952 Alban Berg Violin Concerto "To the Memory of an Angel" Igor Stravinsky Violin Concerto in D Ivry Gitlis violin Pro Musica Orchester Wien William Strickland Orchestre Colonne Harold Byms Recorded/Published 1950 Manuel de Falla Noches en los Jardines de España El Amor Brujo Alicia De Larrocha piano Inés Rivadeneyra voice Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid Jesús Arambarri Recorded/Published 1959 […]
2020-11-02 14:19:57
Samuel Scheidt, more 2020
[…] composer whose name, according to Stephen Fry, is a good contender for the “Best name not just in music but in all history”: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf. Hard to argue with Fry on this one. Von Dittersdorf was born in Vienna on November 2nd of 1739. He was a prolific composer, knew both Haydn and Mozart, and some of his concertos are very pleasant. Finally, two wonderful pianists were born on November 5th: Walter Gieseking in 1895 and György Cziffra in 1921.
2020-07-17 21:00:18
Claves - Gieseking - Kogan - Casadesus - Abbado - Milstein - Cliburn
[…] Zdenek Macal Lausanne 1975 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Orchestre National de l´ORFT Jean Martinon Lausanne 1970 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 Michael Studer Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Michel Plasson Geneve 1978 Robert Schumann Piano Concerto Walter Gieseking Gurnezich Orchester Koln Gunter Wand Montreux 1953 Ludwig van BeethovenPiano Concerto No. 3Emil GilelsOrchestre National de l´ORFTPaul Kletzki Lausanne 1970 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 Emil Gileles Orchestre National de France Charles Dutoit Lausanne 1978 Dmitri Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 Leonid Kogan Orchestre de Paris Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Montreux 1963digital download, […]
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