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Extractions: ALFRED CORTOT This site is here to make available information on one of the greatest musicians of the 2oth century. Cortot on the web is quite scarce so hopefully this site will begin to ignite some interest in pianophiles as well as students of piano, who should be well aware of this pianist whose interpretations still ring with authority, urgency, intensity and individuality; which in an age of homogeneity in piano interpretation is all to scarce a commodity. Cortot Discography Cortot's extensive student editions Chopin Etudes mp3 Photo of Cortot and Cziffra ... Sign the Guest Book
CORTOT, Alfred-Denis - Autograph Pronunciation Key. cortot, alfred Denis , 1877 1962 , French pianist and conductor. http://www.argosybooks.com/-autographs/-CDs/Cortot_A.html
Extractions: CORTOT, Alfred-Denis Music French pianist and conductor, founder of Ecole Normal de Musique in Paris. A.L., signed "Alf Cortot," in French, extending belated congratulations to the recipient. 1 page, 8vo (2 punchholes in left margin). Paris, Oct. 24, 1910. "Excussez moi d'etre sinon le dernier, peut-etre l'avant dernier, a . . . dire toutes mes felictations! Mais j'ai l'excuse du voyageur et puis vous auriez dire etre decore depuis si longtemps que ca a un peu l'air dune blague . . ." Triple-matted in black and white with a black wood frame, accompanied by a black and white photo of the pianist in performance. Outer dimensions 19" x 15".
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Extractions: ALFRED CORTOT This site is here to make available information on one of the greatest musicians of the 2oth century. Cortot on the web is quite scarce so hopefully this site will begin to ignite some interest in pianophiles as well as students of piano, who should be well aware of this pianist whose interpretations still ring with authority, urgency, intensity and individuality; which in an age of homogeneity in piano interpretation is all to scarce a commodity. Cortot Discography Cortot's extensive student editions Chopin Etudes mp3 Photo of Cortot and Cziffra ... Sign the Guest Book
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Extractions: Cortot , Alfred ( Denis) b Nyon, 26 Sept d Lausanne, 15 June 1962 French pianist and conductor. At the Paris Conservatoire he studied piano with Decombes, one of Chopins last pupils, and then with Louis Diemer, winning a first prize in 1896. Immeditely he was heard and admired as an interpreter of Beethoven's concertos at the Colonne and Lamoureux concerts, and he also appeared with Eduard Risler in concerts of two-piano arrangements of Wagner's music In 1898 he was appointed first as a choral coach, and then as assistant conductor, at Bayreuth, where he worked until 1901 under Mottl and Richter. This experience enabled him to prepare and conduct the first Paris performance of Gotterdammerung (May, 1902) and a notable Tristan (June, 1902). His Societe de Festivals Lyriques (1902) was followed by the formation of a concert society for which he conducted the first performances in France of Parsifal ( in concert form), Beethovens Missa Solemnis and Brahms Requiem, as well as still unpublished works by Chausson, Magnard and Roussel. In 1904 he was entrusted with the directions of the concerts given by the Societe nationale and also engaged to conduct the series of Concerts Populaires at Lille. This activity as conductor, which made Cortot one of the leading figures in French musical life before he was 30, did not dampen his enthusiasm for piano although it inevitably limited the number of
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Cortot Schumann/Chopin 21 (recorded July 8, 1935) alfred cortot, pianist; London Philharmonic Orch/LandonRonald (Schumann); Orch/John Barbirolli (Chopin) NAXOS 8.110612 (B) (ADD) TT http://classicalcdreview.com/cortot.htm
Extractions: NAXOS 8.110612 (B) (ADD) TT: 60:58 Alfred Cortot (1877-1962) was a pianist in the grand style, idiosyncratic to the extreme, a superb technician who seldom found time to practice. There is a sense of improvisation present even in his recordings. His lapses in memory are legendary. Sir Thomas Beecham said, describing an episode of forgetfulness when accompanying Cortot, "We started with the Beethoven, and I kept up with Cortot through the Grieg, Schumann, Bach and Tchaikovsky, and then he hit on one I didn't know, so I stopped dead." Don't expect note-perfect performances in these grand interpretations, Cortot's only recording of the Chopin Second, recorded in 1935 with an anonymous orchestra, his third of the Schumann (the first was an acoustic made in 1923, the second an electric made in 1927 all conducted by Landon Ronald). I can still remember when very young (many years ago!) listening repeatedly to the second movement of the Chopin (Victor Album M 567) marveling at the incredible sensitivity combined with bravura in this performance. Both the Schumann and Chopin receive impetuous readings that command attention. Barbirolli often conducted concerto accompaniments (he had recorded the Chopin Second in 1931 with Artur Rubinstein ) and copes admirably with Cortot's waywardness.
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Extractions: FRANCK: Symphonic Variations (Alfred Cortot/London Philharmonic Orch/Landon Ronald, rec. Oct. 13, 1934); SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 44 (Cortot/"Orch"/Charles Munch, rec. July 9, 1935); Etude in the Form of a Waltz (rec. May 1931); RAVEL: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Cortot/Paris Conservatory Orch/Charles Munch, rec. May 12, 1939). NAXOS 8.110613 (B) (ADD) TT: 59:38 This is a worthy companion to Naxos' recent issue of Cortot's recordings of Chopin's Concerto No. 2 and Schumann's concerto (see review) , completing their survey of Cortot's complete concerto recordings (with the exception of his 1927 recording of Symphonic Variations These performances are extraordinary. Cortot produced a sound that belied his small presence (he was only 5 ft. tall). The somewhat erratic pianist had technique to burn and, at his best, even though on occasion he had memory lapses, was one of the top pianists of the century. Symphonic Variations was of particular interest to him. Louis Diémer was Cortot's principal piano teacher; Franck dedicated the work to him and it was he who played the premiere May 1, 1886 with the composer conducting. Cortot referred to the music as "the work of Franck's that I have played the most, and of which I had the pleasure of being at least a loving interpreter if I had no other merit in nearly every city in the old and the new worlds." Naxos' fine CD notes by Norman Pellegrini give Cortot's detailed comments on all aspects of interpreting the score.
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Extractions: In Paris in 1902, the twenty-five-year-old conductor gave the first performance of Wagner's and later Parsifal German Requiem , Liszt's Saint Elizabeth Oratorio , and even Beethoven's Missa Solemnis which, amazing as it sounds, took eighty-five years to reach Paris from Vienna. Besides this, he championed many contemporary French works both as a conductor and pianist. Ever restless and musically hungry, he formed a piano trio with Pablo Casals and Jacques Thibaud in 1905, which must rank as one of the finest chamber ensembles in history. Fortunately, their art is captured in several priceless recordings including Beethoven's Archduke Trio, Schubert's B-flat Trio, and the Mendelssohn and Schumann D minor Trios, while Cortot's conducting may be heard in the Brahms Double Concerto with Casals and Thibaud as soloists. Cortot's dedication to his art was tireless. He once warned Lipatti, "If you decide to dedicate your life to this art you must be armed with patience, and be ready for many sacrifices". Cortot's musical advice was often highly detailed. After a public performance by Lipatti of the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1, Lipatti wrote home: "At the end of the concert Cortot opened the score and made some interesting remarks. He would have liked bars 22-23, in the third section (Scherzo), played a little more freely, more capriciously. Also in the Scherzo, bars 141-161, he suggested I play a tremolo (similar to the one which precedes the last scale-passage in the Coda) instead of a trill, as only in this way will it sound clearly and powerfully. The same applies to bars 70-72 in the Finale. As to bars 80-85, he suggests I play them in the version given as 'ossia', not in original form. He also showed me several changes in the score added later by Liszt himself..."
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Extractions: Pianist. Conductor. Innovator. Champion of music of his time. Educator. Editor. Writer on music, musicians, and music appreciation. Collector of priceless manuscripts and first editions. Alfred-Denis Cortot was every one of those things, and as the nourishment of each of them contributed to the others, he became one of the most important musical figures and respected performers of the twentieth Century. In the midst of this, in 1905 he organized, along with the violinist Jacques Thibaud and cellist Pablo Casals, one of the great trios of all time, one which - over its spasmodic years of collaboration and its still highly-regarded recordings - is credited with bringing chamber music to greater public cognizance and appreciation than it had enjoyed previously. Cortot made more than eighty editions of piano music of various composers, most notably Schumann and Chopin, including the latter's Ballades, Preludes, and Etudes published in four volumes. As in his teaching, he included in these editions detailed suggestions for surmounting the technical difficulties in the music as well as writing about the music's character and extolling its worth. He also amassed a large collection of manuscripts and original editions. And through all this, he was a tireless and internationally-acclaimed pianist, concertizing and recording, and these were activities for which he was at the time, and remains, best known.
