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Extractions: Online Music Review La Folia Home] [Archives by Contributor] [Archives by Date] ... La Folia The William Kapell Edition Mike Silverton [November 1998. Originally appeared in La Folia Polonaise-Fantasie Pictures , a Scarlatti sonata, and Chopin and Schumann morceaux. [More articles by Mike Silverton.]
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Extractions: sponsored by William Kappell Biography Notes by VIRGIL THOMPSON, Music Critic, New York Herald-Tribune When I first heard him at Ravinia in 1943, he was 20, catapulted to fame by the Khatchaturian Concerto he was playing. It was not much of a concerto, but no one else has played it like that, with beauty and sweep and fire. It served notice, that concerto, of what was to come. Perhaps it was only just that it came, in a flood of splendor, at that same Ravinia in the summer of 1947 when he played the Third Rachmaninoff Concerto. No one who heard it will forget that performance. With it Kapell moved into the company of Horowitz and Rachmaninoff himself, who alone had conquered the citadel of that strange concerto, which is cheap unless it is magnificent. He forged the full splendor of the score from his amazing equipment of poetry and fire, of impishness and blazing technique. He conjured its curious fragrance by coaxing from the piano its loveliest songs. From then on it was to me just a question of time when Kapell would be the foremost pianist. Season after season, that time came closer. He played crystalline Mozart, a Bach suite of unforgettable purity of tone. His Brahms rose from the deepest lyricism, yet knew the inimical and the brusque. It poured out in a torrent of fabulous performance last season in the most extraordinary performance I have known of the D Minor Concerto. I called that playing fabulous. The word stands.
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Extractions: Oct. 12, 1998 The William Kapell Edition William Kapell BY TERRY TEACHOUT He was on his way to becoming the greatest American pianist of the century when time ran out on William Kapell. Before he died in a 1953 plane crash at 31, he had everything: looks, charisma, unrivaled musicality, technique to burn. Now his complete recordingsconcertos by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff, solos by Chopin, Debussy and Liszt, duet performances with Jascha Heifetz and William Primrosehave been reissued as a nine-disk boxed set, allowing a new generation to be dazzled by his recreative genius. Best of all is a live broadcast of the Copland piano sonata that seethes with passion and... The complete article is 109 words long. If you would like to read the full article, you may:
William Kapell's Piano Benchmark By Tim Page william kapell's Piano Benchmark By Tim Page Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday,September 27, 1998; Page G01 America's first great pianist has finally been http://www.williamkapell.com/articles&reviews/timpage.htm
William Kapell: A Larger, Truer Vision Of A Passionate Modern y the time william kapell died in a plane crash in October 1953, at 31, he hadalready come to be recognized as the finest pianist America had produced. http://www.williamkapell.com/articles&reviews/kimmelman.htm
Extractions: October 11, 1998 By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN y the time William Kapell died in a plane crash in October 1953, at 31, he had already come to be recognized as the finest pianist America had produced. The popular pianists at the time were foreign-born: Horowitz, Rubinstein, Brailowsky, Hofmann. Then Kapell appeared, out of nowhere, it seemed, the son of a couple who owned a bookstore on Manhattan's Lexington Avenue. He was strong-willed, insecure, compulsive, combative, a neurotically driven New Yorker. In photographs he looks a little like Olivier in profile. As an artist he was stupefyingly gifted, and everyone knew it. By his mid-20s he had a major career, a contract with RCA Victor, dates with Ormandy, Stokowski, Reiner, Monteux and Steinberg. His recording of the Khachaturian's Concerto with Koussevitzky became a jukebox hit. Then he died, and as often happens, the fame faded. His recordings went out of print by 1960, and after that, only a few were occasionally available. Pianists still talked of him as an icon who had paved the way for the first generation of Americans to make a mark on the international scene Kapell was Van Cliburn's hero, for example, and many of those who heard Kapell in concert could, half a century later, still recall the experience as if it were yesterday but the public mostly forgot him.
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Extractions: RCA Red Seal 68442 (9 CDs) (F) TT: 10 hours + ($127.99) This is a release of enormous interest: "The William Kapell Edition," a 9-CD set of most available recordings by the remarkable American pianist who died so young more than four decades ago. William Kapell, born in New York September 20, 1922, studied with Olga Samaroff, won the 1940 Philadelphia Orchestra Youth Contest while still at Juilliard, and the following year won both the Naumburg and Town Hall Endowment Awards. More honors followed, and in 1942 he played the Khachaturian Concerto with Efrem Kurtz and the New York Philharmonic. This music became identified with him and in 1946 he recorded it with Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony, a best-selling classical 78rpm album, one of his first under an exclusive contract with RCA. This was an enormous loss to the musical world, but at least we can remember him through his recordings. Some were issued years ago on CD, but now we have all of his RCA recordings as well as some from other sources, collected in one set; most have been unavailable for decades, and many are issued for the first time in any format. The set includes the three concertos he recorded for RCA (Beethoven Second, Khachaturian, Rachmaninoff Second), and the same composer's
Extractions: MOZART: Sonata in D for Two Pianos, K. 448 (with Rosina Lhevinne). CHOPIN: Etudes in E Flat, Op. 10 No. 6, in G# Minor, Op. 25 No. 6, in B Minor, Op. 25 No. 10, Etude in A Minor, Op. 25 No. 11. Preludes in A Flat, Op. 28 No. 17 and in B-flat Minor, Op. 28, No. 16. Polonaise in A Flat, Op. 53. STRAUSS-EVLER: Blue Danube Waltz. DEBUSSY-RAVEL: Fêtes . BEETHOVEN-BUSONI: Ecossaises. SCHUMANN: Toccata in C. SCHUMANN-LISZT: Frühlingsnacht . SCHUMANN-TAUSIG: El Contrabandista . TCHAIKOVSKY: Trepak . RACHMANINOFF: Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23 No. 5
Music William Kapell Edition (Box Set) [BOX SET] index Blessed with transcendent technique and an affinity for big, bold Romanticworks, william kapell has been hailed as America's greatest homegrown pianist. http://www.bits2atoms.com/addvalue/B00000B9MR.html
Classical Net Review - Maestrino - William Kapell Edition shortly after Rachmaninoff died and the pianist cried though The other Brahms piece,with william Primrose on the on a Chandos recording, but kapell and Kurtz http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/r/rca68442a.html
Extractions: Whittier Disc One Disc Two : Chopin: Sonata #3 ('52), Waltz, Op. 18 ('52), Sonata #2 ('53) Nocturne, Op. 9 ('45); Mendelssohn: Song Without Words: The Shepherd's Complaint ('50); Schumann: Romance, Op. 28 #2 ('49); Mozart: Sonata #16, Adagio ('53). Disc Three Disc Four Disc Five : Beethoven: Piano Concerto #2 with Vladimir Golschmann conducting the NBCSO ('46); Schubert: Moment Musical, D.780, #3 ('49), Waltzes, Landler and German Dances ('52), Impromptu D.935 #2 ('53); Schumann: Romance, Op. 28 #2; Brahms: Intermezzo Op, 116 #6 ('45); Liszt: Sonetto ('47) Hungarian Rhapsody #11 ('51) Mephisto Waltz #1 ('45). Disc Six : Bach: Partita #4 ('52-'53) Suite BWV 818 ('47); Scarlatti: Sonata, K. 380; Mozart: Sonata K. 570, Adagio ('49); Albeniz: Evocation ('45); Chasins: Piano Playtime ('52); Debussy: Children's Corner ('50-'51); Palmer: Toccato ostinato ('47). Disc Seven : Rachmaninoff: Sonata Op. 19 with Edmund Kurtz cello ('47); Brahms: Sonata Op. 120 with William Primrose, viola ('46), Sonata #3, Op, 108 with Jascha Heifetz violin ('50). Disc Eight : Frick Collection Copland: Sonata; Chopin: Nocturne, Op. 55 #2, Mazurka, Op. 33 #3, Polonaise-Fantasie Op. 61; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Schumann: Kinderszenen (About Foreign Lands); Scarlatti: Sonata K. 380. ('53).
William Kapell Unissued Broadcasts Music & Arts CD-1109 william kapell, a brilliant and successful pianist by his early 20s, dead in aplane crash at the age of 31, has long since entered into musical folklore. http://www.musicandarts.com/CD1109hi.html
Extractions: CD-1109(1) Add to Shopping Cart William Kapell, a brilliant and successful pianist by his early 20s, dead in a plane crash at the age of 31, has long since entered into musical folklore. A generation of music lovers has grown up with the legend of young Kapellthe superb technician who produced flamboyantly extroverted performances of 20 th
KAPELL PLAYS BRAHMS AND PROKOFIEV, CD-4990 rare live performances by the legendary william kapell (19221953 performance ofthe concerto that kapell left us Here is the pianist as Superman aggressive http://www.musicandarts.com/CD4990hi.html
Extractions: CD-4990(1) Add to Shopping Cart "While these two live broadcast performances have appeared before, they never sounded as well as they do in Music & Art's splendid new transfers. [Kapell's performance of the Prokofiev 3rd] boasts a tigerish vivacity and rhythmic ebullience absent from the pianist's studio version a month earlier... " International Piano Quarterly : Winter 1997: Jed Distler "...momentum and freewheeling pianism... ...an indispensable issue... ...a fiery, passionate 1953 Brahms D Minor Concerto..." The Absolute Sound : January, 1999: Dan Davis " the excitement is virtually palpable; performances of such hell-fire are inconceivable in the recording studio. Fanfare : March/April 1998: Lawrence A. Johnson "The feel of profundity in the Brahms performance approaches the religious, greatly aided by Mitropoulos' obvious reverence for the score. And the Prokofiev has more dash and much more fire than the curiously bland version Kapell recorded for RCA with Dorati. "
Juilliard | The Juilliard Journal Online On October 28, 1941, the brilliant young American pianist william kapell (19221953)gave his Town Hall debut recital at the age of 19 as winner of the Walter W http://www.juilliard.edu/update/journal/discoveries_0210.html
Extractions: William Kapell: Frick Collection Recital William Kapell Edition, Vol. 8: Works by Copland, Chopin, Mussorgsky, Schumann, and D. Scarlatti. William Kapell, piano. (RCA Red Seal 68997) On October 28, 1941, the brilliant young American pianist William Kapell (1922-1953) gave his Town Hall debut recital at the age of 19 as winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Competition. Kapell attended Juilliard for three years (1940-43) as a graduate fellowship student of Olga Samaroff, continuing on to a meteoric but lamentably brief career. (Jerome Lowenthal of Juilliard's current faculty was one of Kapell's few private pupils.) Returning from an overseas concert tour to begin teaching at Juilliard, Kapell died October 29, 1953, when his DC-6 crashed in fog two minutes before it was to land in San Francisco. He was just 31. In 1998, RCA assembled all of Kapell's long-unavailable commercial recordings in a carefully remastered nine-CD set: the William Kapell Edition (RCA 68442). These discs have now been issued separately. Outstanding among them is the previously unreleased Frick Collection Recital , taped March 1, 1953, in New York City, which captures in excellent sound Kapell's dynamic Copland Piano Sonata, a poetic Chopin group (including the Polonaise-Fantaisie ), and a pointillistic, staccato Mussorgsky
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Extractions: Oct. 12, 1998 The William Kapell Edition William Kapell BY TERRY TEACHOUT He was on his way to becoming the greatest American pianist of the century when time ran out on William Kapell. Before he died in a 1953 plane crash at 31, he had everything: looks, charisma, unrivaled musicality, technique to burn. Now his complete recordingsconcertos by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff, solos by Chopin, Debussy and Liszt, duet performances with Jascha Heifetz and William Primrosehave been reissued as a nine-disk boxed set, allowing a new generation to be dazzled by his recreative genius. Best of all is a live broadcast of the Copland piano sonata that seethes with passion and... The complete article is 109 words long. If you would like to read the full article, you may:
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Extractions: Olymp im Überblick Kritiken der Woche Archiv-Inhalt Titelseite/Inhalt William-Kapell-Edition - Werke von Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Schubert u. a. W ahre Helden sterben früh: Er hätte der berühmteste Pianist Amerikas, ja der ganzen Welt werden können, wenn nicht ein Flugzeugabsturz ihn mit einunddreißig Jahren aus dem Leben gerissen hätte. Trotzdem ist Kapell in den Herzen derer, die ihn noch erleben durften oder das Glück hatten, einige seiner wenigen Schallplatten zu ergattern, jene künstlerische Ausnahmeerscheinung geblieben, als die ihn schon zu seinen Lebzeiten nicht wenige Klavierexperten wahrgenommen haben. Dank der mühevollen Recherche seiner New Yorker Fangemeinde und des noch nicht dahingegangenen Verantwortungsbewußtseins seines Labels RCA kann sich nun jeder Klavier-Interessierte, sechsundvierzig Jahre nach Kapells Tod, ein Bild von der Größe dieses Pianisten machen, und es wird sehr deutlich, daß die Legendenbildungen nicht immer nur der Faszination des Augenblicks zugeschrieben werden können. Nach dieser in jeder Beziehung vorbildlichen, mehr als zehn Stunden währenden Dokumentation seines klingenden Nachlasses wird man die Interpretationsgeschichte unseres Jahrhunderts teilweise umschreiben müssen. Was einen sofort für diesen ungemein modern wirkenden und energisch artikulierenden Pianisten einnimmt, ist die einzigartige Kombination aus Wachheit des Geistes, Leidenschaft des Herzens und einer pianistischen Bravour und Attacke, die nirgends eine Spur von Attitüde oder Selbstgefälligkeit verrät, sondern in stets radikaler Weise sich dem Geist einer Komposition verpflichtet fühlt. Fast alles, was Kapell sich vornahm, klang danach anders, als man es von anderen Pianisten im Ohr hatte: frischer, lebendiger, gestalthafter, sinnerfüllter.
Extractions: William Kapell (piano), NBC Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann (Beethoven, rec. 1946), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitsky (Khatchaturian, rec. 1946), and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (Rachmaninov, rec. 1951). Solo works recorded in 1949, 1952, and 1953, (Schubert), 1950 and 1951 (Debussy), 1945 (Shostakovich), 1953 (Chopin), 1946, (Khatchaturian), and 1953 (Rachmaninov). [ADD] William Kapell was born in New York on 20th September 1922. He had a brilliant career ahead of him which was cut short when he died in an air accident in 1951. He toured extensively, and recorded some of his wide repertoire for RCA. Much of this has been made available on record and CD, such is the interest in him as an artist who might have become so much more.
