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Extractions: Kempff was a pianist with an unmistakable, unique touch. His interpretations of piano works of the classic and romantic styles were always stamped with a highly personal style. He was born into an accompished musical family in Berlin, and in his 20s was already making a name as a recitalist of international renown in the heavyweight core repertoire of Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin and so on. In this recital, recorded in 1964, he plays Beethoven's Rondo in G Op 51 No 2 , and the mighty Sonata No 29 Op 106, Hammerklavier . Beethoven's music is usually thought of in three periods - Early, Middle and Late. (Similar classifications have been foisted on all too many composers since, with varying degrees of success.) The Hammerklavier has many of the characteristics of his Late Period: use of variation form in which apparently simple musical fragments are worked out exhaustively, great use of counterpoint with fugal textures, new sonorities with wide spacing of the hands and the importance of trills which go way beyond mere decoration, being an inherent part of the musical texture often covering many pages. The nickname comes from a powerful new model of piano, whose hitherto undreamt of possibilities Beethoven eagerly exploited.
WILHELM KEMPFF DISCOGRAPHY, By Frank Forman wilhelm kempff was born in a J uumlterborg, a small town about thirty miles southof Berlin, on He was the son of a Lutheran pastor, who was a pianist himself. http://www.trovar.com/Kempff.html
Extractions: by Frank Forman Version 2, 1995 May 27. Version 1 was 1990 November. We often call opposite things which are very much alike. Thus both Protestants and Catholics are Christians and both liberalism and conservatism are Western political philosophies. And Wilhelm Kempff and Wilhelm Backhaus are two German pianists whose differences very much complement each other. Backhaus' playing can be characterized as a masculine carving of solid granite. Yet within this huge, rugged framework, Backhaus is a subtle interpreter. He plays, it might be said, from the outside in. You might say he is the loudest of pianists, even in the quietest passages, because he plays with the most authority. Kempff is the opposite, or as it might be better put, the complement of Backhaus in German piano playing. With Kempff, it is not the loudness but the quiet that one hears. There is a *suspended* *tension*, a calm, and a holding back between each note and the next. Under Backhaus' playing there is a feeling of inevitable movement; with Kempff's an unfolding. He plays, as it were, from the inside out. The best example of this is the beginning of the last movement of the Waldstein Sonata of Beethoven (especially the 1951-2 monophonic LP recording). The pensive second movement has just ended, and what will become the stormy finale is quietly beginning. The volume and speed gradually pick up; but, no, Beethoven hesitates and begins quietly again again, before moving up and down still more until the work's triumphant end. Kempff keeps us suspended throughout, no matter how well we think we know the music. This is a supreme instance of his use of silence: the spaces between the notes count as much as the notes themselves.
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Extractions: Full Review Wilhelm Kempff is an amazing pianist. His career lasted 65 years - from his first concert tour of Germany in 1916 to his final concert in Paris in 1981. Although he died in Positano, Italy in 1991 after a decade of Parkinson's disease, his recordings are still much loved and enjoyed by music fans. To this day he is admired for his performances of Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms. I also particularly enjoy Kempffs interpretations of Chopins work. Kempff was and is a musician's musician. He approached music with a clear sense of organization; his recordings show warmth and dignity...Kempff believed music spoke for itself and didn't need dramatic outbursts from the performer. Todays young musicians often play their music with a robotic perfection. Modern musicians are not allowed to make mistakes but their music often lacks emotion, feeling, and humanity. In Kempffs work you can hear an occasional wrong note... but he makes up for any technical imperfection with the emotionality he brings to the music.
Extractions: One of the highlights of Angel Hewitts recent Bach transcription album was to rediscover those of Wilhelm Kempff. Hewitt, maybe the greatest Bach pianist of our day, paid eloquent tribute to a man who had begun as an organist and was, as befits a musician of his generation, a composer-pianist of the kind now almost extinct. To encounter his transcriptions was to be reminded of his greatness and to listen to this disc is to encounter it once again. We have lived through the puritanical prescriptiveness of the more doctrinaire early music enthusiasts whose attractive speculations are as chimerical as any other belief and twenty five years later we can listen to a great pianist unfolding effortlessly eventful and thoughtful mediations of Chorale Preludes and much else. In
Extractions: By all accounts it was hot and humid in the Mozarteum on 31 July 1958 for Kempffs recital, but he seemed unaffected and the audience were engrossed in his poetic playing of Schumanns Fantasie. He followed it with the late Bagatelles of Beethoven, rarely heard in the concert hall, and suffused the six with simplicity and clarity whilst dextrously fingering their more florid phrases in a highly focused performance. Brahms youthful sonata, his Song of Love and Death, is a highly Romantic showpiece which Kempff exploits to the full, belying his more advanced years, facing head on the technical hazards, such as the first movements complexities, and painting vivid colours of sound and dynamics. In my review of another CD from this series (Carl Schuricht conducting Stölzel and Beethoven) I may have implied that the Orfeo DOr series was but a dozen discs. In fact whereas there are that number listed of orchestral concerts, there are plenty more devoted to solo recitals such as this, as well as chamber music and song recitals.
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Extractions: JOHN O'CONOR, PIANIST Through his recitals, concerto appearances, and critically acclaimed recordings, Irish pianist John O'Conor has earned a reputation as a masterful interpreter of the Classic and early Romantic piano repertoires. He has been praised for his formidable technique and through his eloquent phrasing, mastery of keyboard color and particularly his unique sound he has been called a true Poet of Piano. John O'Conor has performed in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand and has appeared with such orchestras as the Royal Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, l'Orchestre National de France, Scottish and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, Israel Camerata, NHK, Yomiuri, Kyushu, Kyoto and Sapporo symphonies in Japan, KBS Symphony in Seoul, Singapore Symphony, New Zealand Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Florida Orchestra and the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Seattle, Toronto, Montreal and Washington DC in North America. He also appears frequently with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and the Irish Chamber Orchestra in Ireland and abroad. Mr. O'Conor continues to make significant contributions to the arts in his native country through his numerous performances of music from the traditional repertoire and his championing of the works by Ireland's leading 19th century composer, John Field. He has become a key figure in the development of young artists through his role as Director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and was a co-founder of the AXA Dublin International Piano Competition, of which he is Artistic Director and Chairman of the Jury.
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Goldberg Variations By Wilhelm Kempff At Jsbach.org wilhelm kempff made this recording in the final years of his kempff distils the essenceof the Aria and all and as elegantly presented by a pianist as kempff http://www.jsbach.org/goldbergwilhelm.html
Extractions: BWV 988 Format: Compact Disc Record Label: Deutsche Grammophon Catalog Number: Year Released/Recorded: Total Playing Time: Comments: Jon Brooder said: This recording is not for everyone. It is "The Goldbergs" stripped to their essentials, with no ornamentation. But there is a great deal of elegance in this performance of what is almost a sketch of this great work. it took a while, but I've grown to love this recording for all the things it isn't as well as all the things it is. Keith Mak said: Acknowledgements: Thank you to the following for submitting this recording and for your comments: Date First Submitted: Purchasing: Suggested Purchasing Sources About This Site Biography, Portraits and Literature Works by BWV Number Works by Category Works by Key Works by Title Works by Year The Cantatas Project Recordings by Title Recordings by Conductor or Main Performer Recordings by Instrument Recordings by BWV Number Recordings by Record Label Recordings Submitted Recently Web Sites with Bach Information Web Sites with Bach MIDI Files Featured Recordings Suggested Purchasing Sources
Classical Net Review - Kempff Conducts - Rare Recordings, 1936-1945 wilhelm kempff, piano Großes Leipziger Symphony Orchestra/Hans Weisbach Berlin PhilharmonicOrchestra/Peter Raabe Music kempff was a pianist gifted with a http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/m/m&a01071a.html
Extractions: Kempff was a pianist gifted with a towering (yet humane) artistic stature, and it is a surprise that there are relatively few CDs on the market right now that are devoted exclusively to his pianism. (Three two-disc sets in the Great Pianists of the 20th Century The first of these two CDs contains the concertos. The Mozart comes from the collection of Deutsche Rundfunkarchiv, and is a broadcast performance from April 3, 1939. A German announcer gets things off to a jarring start (jarring, at least, if you were expecting Mozart's gracious C-major opening instead!), but he soon gets out of the way and allows Kempff to make his quiet magic. The Leipzig orchestra is functional rather than distinguished, but Kempff sounds at peace with the music, and as a result, so are we. The "Emperor" was recorded in 1936 for Deutsche Grammophon. This too is a "live" performance, as the applause at the end indicates. This is an "Emperor" with punch, although it is the Berlin Philharmonic that strikes the more aggressive note. Kempff is most distinctive when he is most intimate; he was a master of the mezzo piano Raymond Tuttle Search Reviews Back to the Review Index
Bach: Arrangements by wilhelm kempff, and a number of arrangements by English composers that were includedin A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen (a collection compiled for the pianist http://www2.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/67309.asp
Extractions: Get RealAudio This delightful disc offers a selection from the wealth of piano transcriptions of Bach's music. The Bach revival that gathered momentum during the nineteenth century created a climate for many composer-pianists to interpret his works through their own piano transcriptions, whether of chorale preludes, organ works or other instrumental music. Much of Bach's music was made domestically available via such arrangements (and the tradition continued well into the twentieth century, even after Bach originals were well known). Indeed, the practice of such transcriptions was widely used by Bach himself, who freely adapted his own and others' music for different instrumental settings. One of today's finest Bach pianists, Angela Hewitt concentrates primarily on those arrangements of Bach that keep pianistic elaboration and virtuosity in proportion: whatever instrument his music is played on, Bach should still sound like Bach. Eugen d'Albert's magnificent transcription of the C minor Passacaglia and Fugue for organ, BWV582, is included, as are five beautiful transcriptions by Wilhelm Kempff, and a number of arrangements by English composers that were included in A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen (a collection compiled for the pianist Harriet Cohen, who knew many English composers of the early twentieth century). Angela Hewitt also includes three transcriptions of her own. A fascinating companion to Angela Hewitt's acclaimed Bach recordings for Hyperion, this ravishing disc will appeal to lovers of Bach as much as connoisseurs of the piano.
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Extractions: Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Older versions Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles Interlanguage links All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A pianist is a person who plays the piano A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an orchestra or smaller ensemble , or accompany one or more singers or solo instrumentalists A performing classical pianist usually starts playing piano at a very young age, some as early as three years old. Many well-known classical composers were able pianists themselves; for example, Sergei Rachmaninov Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Franz Liszt Frederic Chopin , and Robert Schumann were all virtuoso pianists. Some pianists have special preferences as to which composer's music they play. Most western forms of music can make use of the piano. Consequently, pianists have a wide variety of forms and styles to choose from, including
