Allartist alfred cortot. cortot, an unashamedly romantic pianist who was perhaps the finestexponent of Chopin, Schumann and Franck in his time, was born at Nyon http://web02.hnh.com/scripts/Artists_gallery/other_artists.asp?artist_name=Corto
Biography Of Alfred Cortot With Gold-music.com alfred cortot ( 1877 1962 ) pianist and conductor, born in Nyon,Switzerland, of French parents. After winning the first prize http://www.gold-music.com/fiches/fiche_14530.php
Extractions: Pianist and conductor, born in Nyon, Switzerland, of French parents. After winning the first prize for piano-playing at the Paris Conservatoire in 1896, he became known in France as an outstanding player of Beethoven's concertos. In 1905, with Jacques Thibaud and Pablo Casals, he founded a trio whose chamber music performances won great renown. He was professor of the pianoforte at the Paris Conservatoire (191720), and author of several books on musical appreciation, interpretation, and piano technique.
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French Culture | Music Recordings | Classical Archive 0202 Mendelssohn and Schumann Trios ThibaudCasals-cortot Trio Naxos 8.110185 (59.23)The trio of French pianist alfred cortot, French violinist Jacques Thibaud http://www.frenchculture.org/music/cd/classical/archive02-02.html
Extractions: French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and French pianist Alexandre Tharaud perform seminal masterpieces of 20th-century Hungarian chamber music. The lush Kodaly - including Sonata for cello and piano (1909) and Cello Sonata No. 8 (1915) - is interpreted with native feeling. The spiky Kurtag is handles with mastery and authority. Very fine. Ravel: Complete Piano Works
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Instrumental: Catalog 46 cortot, alfred SP 4 x 5 showing the great pianist together with hisoftime cohorts cellist Casals and fiddler Thibaud who did not sign http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/instrument46.html
Instrumentalists: Catalog 35 SOLOMONSP 3 x 5 nice shot of the important English pianist looking overhis music at the piano. CHERKASSKY, Shura-l929, $25. cortot, alfred, $45. http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/instrument35.html
Ccm Composers-classical-music Com : Cortot, Alfred Cortot home. cortot, alfred 18771962 Switzerland, Nyon - France, Lausanne pianist, conductor.Title, Parts. Largo after Chopin's sonata op65. Piano Fredrik Ullen. http://composers-classical-music.com/c/CortotAlfred.htm
Welcome To: Millennium Music! Playing Time 6058 The Swiss pianist alfred cortot was an artist of immense cultureand intellect who recorded a rich and varied legacy for the musical world. http://www.millenniummusic.com/naxos3.htm
Extractions: The Swiss pianist Alfred Cortot was an artist of immense culture and intellect who recorded a rich and varied legacy for the musical world. Cortot studied with Decombs, one of Chopin's last pupils, at the Conservatoire de Paris. It was Decovbs who gave him his love for the romanticism of Chopin and Schumann. In addition to being a world famous pianist, Cortot was a partner in a most notable chamber trio with Pablo Casals and Jacques Thibaud, and he was an assistant conductor at Bayreuth. it was Cortot who gave the first performance in Paris of Wagner's Gotterdammerung. These recordings display Cortot at height of his romantic sensibilites and pianistic powers. From Abbey Road Station No. 1 in London, 1934, these historic recordings enshrine Alfred Cortot's playing which combined elegance with authority and masculinity with poetry. Restored by Mark Obert-Thorn.
Alfred Cortot alfred cortot was a consummate musician, with a remarkably cortot's most importantweakness was (like Schnabel) a and later recordings capture a pianist in his http://members.macconnect.com/users/j/jimbob/classical/cortot.html
Extractions: Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 Richard Sauer asks: Several posters persuaded me to invest in Furtwaengler-money well spent. Now I wonder if someone can do the same for Cortot recordings. In the past I shied away from the Furtwaengler releases because of the Penguin Guides. The 1989 companion to the main volume often, but not always, writes about Furtwaengler: "pulls the music out of shape", "distorts" etc. Moreover Penguin's editors weigh the sonics as heavily as the performance, so many classic performances get the kiss of death- a (*). Similarly, I have flipped past Cortot discs (Pearl) because of the cost, and the suspicion (unwarranted I suspect) that Cortot wasn't all he was cracked-up to be-"willful", "distorting". I know he drops a lot of notes, but so did Schnabel. Anyway: Why Cortot? and where does one start? Schumann? Chopin? or Liszt? NOTE: info shamelessly stolen from liner notes and Harold Schonberg's The Great Pianists . I'm sure there are other sources, but this is being done strictly OTTOMH.
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Médiathèque Musicale Mahler our time. The core of this collection was assembled by the famousFrench pianist alfred cortot (18771962). Virtually anything of http://www.bgm.org/en/collect_en.htm
Extractions: , Paris) The in Paris, named after one of the most universally acclaimed composers of the 20th century, offers a truly exceptional collection of documents relating to classical music. The library houses an extensive collection of books in four languages, an important collection of music reviews and periodicals, a large collection of recordings, including LPs, cassettes, and CDs, an important collection of scores, rare original manuscripts, rare musical archives, a rich archive of photographs, comprehensive reference files on most of the major composers and great performers of the 20th century. For practical information, including adress and office hours, please refer to the " Services " section.
Chopin: As Seen By A Pianist For further reading, I recommend alfred cortots Aspects of Chopin, and JeanJacques Eigeldingers Chopin pianist and Teacher As Seen By His Pupils. http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm5-5/Chopin-en.htm
Extractions: Nocturnes Op.62 and the second from Op.55). Mozart was a favourite, Beethoven less so. His attitude towards his contemporaries was ambiguous at best. He was cool towards Schumann, never reciprocating the latter’s enthusiasm for his own music. And his admiration for Liszt was tinged with jealousy. But perhaps the most important aspects of his personality were his insecurity and his indecisiveness (many letters to his parents in which he expresses his hesitation between going back to Poland to fight alongside his countrymen or staying in his new adopted home attest to this trait). This "folie du doute," his inability to make up his mind, actually permeates many of his works and is even reflected in his harmonic language, making him by far one of the most original harmonists of his time. The second Prelude Op.28 in A minor and the Mazurka, Op.68, no.4
Alfred Brendel - A Musical Paradox teachers listening to other pianists, especially Edwin Fischer, alfred cortot,and Wilhelm Brendel continues to be described as an intellectual pianist. http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm6-6/brendel-en.html
Extractions: C onsidering the phenomenal number of articles written about Alfred Brendel, it might seem futile or at least not particularly useful to take yet another look at this incomparable pianist. He is an artist whose peers hold him in the highest regard. He is a perfectionist when it comes to technique, and a musical interpreter of profound sensitivity. In fact, he challenges the standards, expectations, and unspoken laws of the classical music jungle and emerges greater than ever, yet able to maintain a disconcerting frankness and modesty. Brendel has a remarkably fine-tuned ear, not only when performing but with regard to life in general, and he leads parallel lives that are mutually enriching. He is a chamber player (he recently joined with baritone Matthias Goerne, to the delight of fans of the vocal art); he performs with orchestra (in April he will perform all of Beethovens concertos with Seiji Osawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra) and as a soloist (recitals in Montreal and Ottawa are scheduled for March and April). Brendel is also an essayist ( Thoughts and Afterthoughts has been providing absorbing reading for musicians and music-lovers for over thirty years); a new-fledged poet (his collection
Paul Cadmus most interesting documents in this collection is a letter which Cadmus wrote toAitkin on a program for a recital given by the French pianist alfred cortot. http://archivesofamericanart.si.edu/exhibits/piano/cadmus.htm
Extractions: Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) The fondness Paul Cadmus felt for for his friend Webster Aitkin, the concert pianist, is evident in his letters. Cadmus often discusses mutual friends, painting and music, and expresses his admiration of Aitkin's musicianship. In a 1947 letter Cadmus muses, "I keep wishing: if only I were rich! Not for the money; just so that I could commission you to do K. 503 and a Weber concertoit mightn't be good, but I would like to hear itfor an invited audience: yours & mine." Aside from how he felt about Weber's concertos, Cadmus certainly had confidence in Aitkin's pianistic skills (developed through study at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, and with Emil van Sauer and Artur Schnable in Vienna) and an appreciation for piano literature. As he asks Aitkin in one letter, "So are you breaking, or by this time have broken the back of Eliot's sonata: How pleased I am; it implies a back and a bone to break. How rare! In these days when the anatomy of the worm is body enough for most composers."
Welcome To Piano.com cortot, alfred (18771962) - discography, sound clips, photos, and more for theFrench pianist. Crawshaw, Sandra - concert pianist based in Dunedin, NZ. http://www.piano.com/pianist/pianist_classical.cfm
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Beethoven Times Six Pianists, From Schnabel On from this set include any of the performances of alfred cortot, who remains a fewlesser known or slightly forgotten artists such as French pianist Yves Nat http://www.msnbc.com/news/783894.asp
Extractions: Gieseking, remembered as an artist with rare artistic vision, plays the piece in a reflective, almost nostalgic vein. Haskil, the Romanian-born child prodigy, plays with an astoundingly beautiful sonority. The sounds she brings out of the instrument alone are worth adding this collection to the shelf.
Bilson Review, Volume 2 Issue 2 Spring 2000 de Laroccha (another sad omission from the film) is also a pianist who hasn Cziffra'sGrand Galop Chromatique of Liszt, and the lesson by alfred cortot on Der http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/echo/Volume2-Issue2/reviews/art-of-the-piano.html
Extractions: So a composite video such as this one is for me a veritable treasure trove, a true legacy of a large proportion of the great piano playing of the 20 th th . The video available for purchase is narrated by John Tusa, but the same program as seen on PBS several months ago was narrated by John Rubinstein, son of Arthur. I was told by the producers that since the film involved many studios from many countries, the video exists with various narrations in different languages. The small booklet enclosed with the video has a text that follows to a large extent the line of the film; it has been translated into English from an article in French. There are also commentaries by a number of pianists, conductors and managers, including Piotr Anderszewski, Daniel Barenboim, and Colin Davis. Some of these are enormously sympathetic, such as Anderszewski, or very insightful, such as Daniel Barenboim, who describes each artist in a particularly characteristic way. Cortot, for example, he describes as follows: "I think Cortot looked for the opium in music. He looked for anything that was extraordinary; he always looked for something, not sickly, but something abnormal, totally removed from reality, and far from anything that could be construed as smelling of normality."
Magda.html she followed her studies with alfred cortot, who, she and Thibaud in concerts, playedunder cortot's baton Still a young pianist in the flourishing Paris of the http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rpassarj/magda.html
Extractions: After the Conservatoire, she followed her studies with Alfred Cortot, who, she once recalled in a TV interview in Brazil, showed her how to put her fantasy and imagination at her service when playing. She became a friend of the members of the famous Casals-Cortot-Thibaud trio and used to play tennis with them, accompanied Casals and Thibaud in concerts, played under Cortot's baton. Her youth in the flamboyant Paris was full of adventure: she recalled as being one of the first women drivers, of singing the part of Love in an open air production of Gluck's Orfeo. Among her recollections were walks with Ravel, always silent most of the time. She also met D'Indy, Poulenc, Milhaud.
