ConcertoNet.com - The Classical Music Network Busch Trios and Quartets. Mr. serkins father was, of course, theeminent pianist and scholar rudolf serkin. I had the pleasure http://www.concertonet.com/exec/review.asp?IndexReview=1775
Ludwig Van Beethoven - The Music Beat rudolf serkin's early 1960s accounts of the most popular name sonatas, on a CBS isdeliberate, but hardly theatrical as always, the pianist emphasizes the http://musicbeat.searchbeat.com/classical/beethoven.htm
Extractions: Searches! addresses area codes books cameras directions electronics email search europe maps int'l jobs jobs kitchen lawn and patio maps meta-search web movies movie times music news phone numbers software stocks tools and hardware toys traffic tv listings video games comparison shop family fashion gov't ... site map Search: Classical Music Music All Products Advanced Search biography Many people believe Beethoven was the single greatest composer of all time. He is undoubtedly one of the best known and most loved. His most famous works include his 5th Symphony, 9th Symphony, Für Elise, and the Moonlight Sonata. Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany. His mother was Magdalena Keverich and his father was Johann Beethoven. They named their son after his grandfather. He moved to Vienna when he was 22, where he studied under Franz Joseph Haydn. In Vienna he earned a reputation as a piano virtuoso and improvisor, and began publishing his own compositions soon after. By the early 1800s he had established his reputation as a great and daring composer. Beethoven began to lose his hearing at least by 1801. He continued composing nonetheless, and his 9th Symphony, amongst many other works, was composed after he had become totally deaf.
Extractions: Classical Voice News Los angeles PHILHARMONIC TO perform with PIANiST Yefim BRONFMAN at Orange County Performing Arts Center May 18 Performance to include Salonens new symphony Foreign Bodies, Prokofievs Piano Concerto No. 2 and Tchaikovskys Symphony No. 4 The Los Angeles Philharmonic performs with pianist Yefim Bronfman on May 18, 2002 at 8 p.m. at the Orange County Performing Arts Center under the baton of music director Esa-Pekka Salonen. The performance will be the Los Angeles Philharmonics only appearance in Orange County. Presented by the Philharmonic Society, the program features Salonens new symphony Foreign Bodies , whose U.S. premiere will be performed on May 16 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Also included in the program are performances of Prokofievs Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 16 featuring Bronfman and Tchaikovskys Symphony No. 4
More Great Pianist his concerts do you probably understand why arguably rudolf serkin was the serkinplay in the l920s he realized that serkin was the musician's pianist. http://www.pianoworld.com/pianist2.htm
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Clarinet Performances Biography Peter serkin, pianist. of the Casals Festival Orchestra for 7 seasonsand a participant in the Marlboro Festival with rudolf serkin for 17 http://www.bostonrecords.com/clarinet.htm
Extractions: Harold Wright until his untimely death in 1995 was the Principal Clarinetist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from th 1970-71 season. Born in Wayne, Pennsylvania, he began clarinet at the age of 12. Later he entered the Curtis Institute of Music and studied with Ralph McLane, Principal Clarinetist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr. Wright joined the Houston Orchestra upon graduation. The following year, he became Principal Clarinetist of the Dallas Symphony and subsequently was Principal Clarinetist of the National Symphony until joining the Boston Symphony in 1970. Mr. Wright was the Principal Clarinetist of the Casals Festival Orchestra for 7 seasons and he was a participant in the Marlboro Festival with Rudolph Serkin for 17 seasons. Harold Wright was a frequent guest artist with the Lincoln Center Chamber Concerts, the Mostly Mozart Festival and the Chamber Music Concerts at the 92nd Street Y in New York. He has performed with many of the leading quartets of today - including the Guarneri, Veneer and Juillard Quartets. His many recordings include Copland Sextet, Mozart and Weber (Clarinet) Quintets, Brahms Trio, Schubert Octet and "Der Hirt auf dem Felsen" with Benita Valente and Rudolph Serkin and the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Formally a teacher at Boston University, Mr. Wright presently is a faculty member at the New England Conservatory and the Tanglewood Music Center. He is also a member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players and the Boston Wind Octet.
Richard Goode Richard Goode may be the best pianist in America. Goode gave what was simply thebest Beethoven performance heard in this city since rudolf serkins Emperor http://www.intermusica.co.uk/artist/goode.html
Extractions: A native of New York, Goode studied with Nadia Reisenberg at the Mannes College of Music and with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute. His numerous prizes over the years include the Young Concert Artists Award, First Prize in the Clara Haskil Competition, the Avery Fisher Prize, and a Grammy Award with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman. His first public traversal of the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas at New York’s 92nd Street Y in 1987-88 was hailed by the New York Times as "among the season’s most important and memorable events." More recently he performed the cycle in London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1994 and 1995. In August 2002 Goode had a five-concert residency at the Edinburgh International Festival including concerto performances with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and three contrasting recitals. He will also appear at the BBC Proms and in recital at major piano festivals in Toulouse, the Ruhr and La Roque d'Antheron. Engagements in the 2002/2003 season include performances with the London Philharmonic/Belohlavek, Rotterdam Philharmonic/Vonk, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich/ Zinman, New York Philharmonic/Colin Davis and San Francisco Symphony/Peter Oundjian. Goode will be giving recitals across the US and Europe including the South Bank Centre in London, Milan, Munich, Venice, Nurnberg, at the Bergen Festival and Symphony Hall Birmingham.
Bomis: The Arts/Music/Styles/Classical/Performers/Pianists Ring www.futurenet.com. 52. serkin, rudolf 19031991. Kennedy Center tribute page. 57.Mastroyiannis, Dino. Young Greek pianist. www.geocities.com. Sponsor sites. http://www.bomis.com/rings/Mperformers-pianists-arts/
Serkin.html From http//www.grovemusic.com serkin, rudolf. (b Eger, 28 March 1903;d Guilford, VT, 8 May 1991). American pianist of Austrian birth. http://www.schoenberglaw.com/exiles/serkin.html
Extractions: Top Arts Music ... Performers : Pianists Agents and Managers Berman, Bart - Review blurbs, Discography, articles (esp. on Franz Schubert) Argerich, Martha b. 1941. - Excerpts from a 1979 interview with Dean Elder; in-print discography; reviews. Rubinstein, Arthur 1887-1982. - Arthur Rubinstein International Music Society Page, includes these biographical notes by Harold C. Shoenberg. Reichert, Aviram. - Born in Israel, includes biography, contact info, MP3 clips. Saracino, Siro - Curriculum, concerts, repertoire. Kolacny Duo: Steven and Stijn - Biography, RealAudio samples, calendar, contact info, more. Brendel, Alfred b.1931 - Links to biography, discography, essays and quotes. Kapell, William 1922-1953. - Brief biography. Klein, Andreas - (German) Biography, audio clips, reviews, concerts, photos. Rhodes, Julian b. 1964 - Piano, organ, and harpsichord player. Biography, calendar, etc. Grimaud, Helene - Fan page: pictures, reviews, interviews, audio samples. Lipatti, Dinu 1917-1950.
Classica.html collection of treasures recorded by, most likely, the greatest pianist of all Beethoven The 3 Last Piano Sonatas - DGG - rudolf serkin in a live recital in http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rpassarj/classica.html
Extractions: Here are some good Classical Music items that I have recently bought and liked. They are all available through the mail order services on the Net. The Art of the Piano (David Dubal) - Its performers, literature and recordings - performers are listed in alphabetical order; the second part is dedicated to composers, in alphabetical order as well. Sometimes performers like Pogorelich get more praise than they deserve, but the book is a good reference source for pianists and music lovers - Harvest Book - Book Stacks The Callas Legacy (John Ardoin) - a guide to Callas's recordings, in chronological order; it includes both studio and live recordings and a brief analysis of each entry - Amadeus Press - Book Stacks Evenings with Horowitz - A Personal Portrait (David Dubal) - a duel of egos (Horowitz's and Dubal's) during aproximately 3 1/2 years; very interesting subjects as piano techique, composers, pianists as well as urban violence help the reader in getting a picture of Horowitz the artist and human being. At the end Mr. Dubal included Horowitz's discography and the book begins with a short biography. Read and send your e-mail telling who had the bigger ego, Horowitz or Dubal - Schirmer Books - Book Stacks 5000 Nights at the Opera (Sir Rudolph Bing) - narcissitic account, by the Met dictator during the 50's and 60's, of his regime at the Met - Amereon House -
Extractions: Gino Domenico/AP What does a pianist do after losing full use of the right hand and going to 18 doctors and getting 18 diagnoses? In Gary Graffman's case, commission works for the left hand. This season, Graffman has performed two world premieres of left-handed concertos Daron Hagen's ''Seven Last Words'' with the New Mexico Symphony and Richard Danielpour's Piano Concerto No. 3 ''Zodiac Variations'' with the National Symphony in Washington, D.C. On June 2, he premieres a third ''Concierto para la mano izquierda'' by Luis Prado at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center. In the 1950s, Graffman was among the so-called the OYAPs Outstanding Young American Pianists a group that included Van Cliburn, Leon Fleisher and Eugene Istomin and was to take over from the generation of Vladimir Horowitz, Arthur Rubinstein and Rudolf Serkin. At age 7, he started studying with Isabelle Vengerova of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music; at 20, he won the Leventritt Award; later, he studied with Horowitz and Serkin.
Wu Han 3 Biographies She quickly became the pianist of choice to perform with visiting artists Wu Hansteachers include Raymond Hanson, rudolf serkin, Herbert Stessin, Lilian http://www.artistled.com/html/wh_bios.htm
Extractions: Pianist Wu Hans popularity with audiences worldwide has made her one of todays most talked-about classical artists. As orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, she has garnered an enviable reputation as a performer whose impassioned music making and thrilling style are bringing new life to the concert stage. Splendid technical and interpretive finesse, fiery, exhilarating, and electrifying are among the many superlatives awarded her by the press. Wu Hans blossoming career has already taken her to many of the worlds most prestigious venues: Londons Wigmore Hall, New Yorks Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and 92nd Street Y; Washingtons Kennedy Center and Library of Congress; Bostons Symphony Hall; Clevelands Severance Hall; and major concert series in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle. Wu Hans international tours have led her to England, Germany, Austria, Spain, Denmark, Japan, and to her native Taiwan, where she recently played in a nationally televised concert for President Lee Teng-Hui.
Vox Music Group - Alfred Brendel 2001 Release This is precisely the musicianfirst-pianist-second literature associated withArtur Schnabel and rudolf serkin, pianists to whom Brendel is often compared. http://www.voxcd.com/brendel_2001_essays.html
Extractions: Harris Goldsmith To judge from its rubric, this richly deserved retrospective could aptly be described as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Mr Brendel's discography fired its opening salvo with what might now seem a surprising and uncharacteristic piece: With Prokofiev's then infrequently heard Fifth Piano Concerto - a substantial composition to be sure, but certainly at a far remove from the protagonist's accustomed bailiwick (the recording, made in 1955 for the small independent Period label (SPL 599), shared its vinyl - these were of course in the days of mono lp - with Prokofiev played by different artists). High Fidelity's resident reviewer, Alfred Frankenstein, had high praise for the concerto and its performance; also finding the sound reproduction far superior to its discmates. My own tenure with High Fidelity began with the March 1960 issue but this writer's first direct awareness of Brendel came with the Vox release that juxtaposed Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy with Liszt's amplification of the same for piano and orchestra (now available on CD3X 3041). When that record was sent to me for review, I mentioned it to a dear friend and burgeoning piano student who had just returned to New York after spending time as a Fullbright Scholar. Speaking of Brendel (who he had just heard in Europe), my friend cited the then up-and-coming Austrian pianist's technique and musical rectitude, likening his interpretive style to Rudolf Serkin when he first came to public note as Adolf Busch's sonata partner and son-in-law. With that Schubert/Liszt apéritif, bolstered with my friend's encomium, I was eager and ready to partake in a substantial meal, if not a banquet.
Pianists Top Arts Music Instruments Keyboard Piano serkin, rudolf (19031991) Kennedy Center tribute page. Sgouros, Dimitris (b.1969)Famous Greek pianist; site includes biography, photos, preferred http://alchoholism.gowebinfo.com/Top/Arts/Music/Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Piani
ECM Records Information The grandson of Adolf Busch and the son of pianist rudolf serkin, Peter serkin studiedat the Cornish Institute in Philadelphia with Lee Luvisi, Mieczsyslaw http://www.ecmrecords.com/ecm-cgi-bin/background?1676
Bronson Piano Studio pianist Robert Levin New York Philomusica. There was a lovely story circulated byArtur Rubinstein some years ago about how the late rudolf serkin would worry http://www.bronsonpianostudio.com/reviews/021199r1.htm
Extractions: Lyn Bronson Well, the flamboyant Robert Levin was in our midst again last night. On this occasion Chamber Music Monterey Bay presented him at Sunset Center in Carmel as a soloist with the New York Philomusica in the Beethoven Fourth Piano Concerto in a version for piano and string quintet. This newly discovered arrangement contains a reworking of the solo piano part by Beethoven himself (with some startling new passages) and an orchestral reduction for quintet by Franz Alexander Pössinger. Dr. Hans-Werner Küthen, who reconstructed the score of this arrangement from the manuscript, and the Beethoven Haus in Bonn have granted Robert Levin and the Philomusica the rights to its American premiere performances. The first question you might ask is, did we miss not hearing Beethoven's glorious orchestration? Was it a little bit like being picked up at the airport in a Volkswagen when you were expecting a Cadillac limo? The answer is no, we didn't miss the full orchestration, and we also didn't miss that little man who is always standing out in front waving a stick, either. It was amazing how the quintet, composed of violinists Todd Phillips and Carmit Zori, violists Ah Ling Neu and Kirsten Johnson and cellist Melissa Meell, provided such a rich and satisfying musical ensemble that the integrity and musical purpose of the orchestration sounded new and fresh to our ears.
Extractions: RECORDINGS BRAHMS: THE VIOLIN SONATAS Pamela Frank, violinist; Peter Serkin, pianist. London 289 455-643; CD. R eviewed by Bernard D. Sherman "Most current Brahms performances," complains the pianist Stephen Kovacevich, "suggest a comfortable, overweight bank manager reluctantly refusing an overdraft." Not these ones. To Pamela Frank and Peter Serkin, the operative word for Brahms seems to be "intense." The intensity manifests itself in various ways, including a few extreme tempos. For example, the artists begin the Third Sonata's Adagio as slowly as can be done without losing the pulse. But their noble phrasing makes the tempo work. And when the opening theme returns later, differentiated from its initial appearance by a flowing new bass line and by the instruments' singing it together, the artists play it somewhat faster. The increase in tempo sounds natural and adds urgency to what may be the most heart-rending passage in all the sonatas. For all their intensity, the pair knows how to shape movements, holding back in one place so as to build toward something more passionate later. In only one movement - the opening of the First Sonata - does this approach leave me unsatisfied. While the pair builds to an exceptionally rhapsodic second thematic group, they make the opening theme sound a bit matter of fact. The problem is that their fast tempo suits the second group perfectly but is too fast for the gentle lyricism of the opening. A more flexible tempo, starting more slowly and speeding up gradually
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Untitled The great classical pianist rudolf serkin (19031991), founder of the Marlboro MusicFestival and unexcelled in Beethoven and Brahms, refused at first to teach http://artists-in-residence.com/~ljlehrman/articles/aufbau55.html
Extractions: A generation apart, they would seem nonetheless to be the perfect match: two fabulously gifted musicians, the composer Toru Takemitsu (1930-1966) and pianist Peter Serkin (b. 1947), both self-taught in their youth, who earned the approbation of the masters in their adolescence, and went on to glittering international careers. Takemitsu took to music at age 16, when pneumonia forced him into a convalescence soothed by long hours' listening to the radio, and he decided to become a composer. Two years later he began formal studies. In 1959, Igor Stravinsky called the Tokyo-born composer's 1957 Requiem a masterpiece. Seven years later, Takemitsu created a group called Orchestral Space, in collaboration with Seiji Ozawa, currently (and for the past 24 years) music director of the Boston Symphony. By the end of his life, Takemitsu had created over 90 film scores and dozens of concert works, including no fewer than 7 for Peter Serkin. The great classical pianist Rudolf Serkin (1903-1991), founder of the Marlboro Music Festival and unexcelled in Beethoven and Brahms, refused at first to teach his son Peter the piano. Then in 1959, the twelve-year-old surprised him by learning and performing the Haydn Concerto in D at Marlboro, and the father relented. The son's career would, however, take a very different tack: Though he too would savor the repertoire of Bach (especially the Goldberg Variations), Beethoven, and Brahms (as in the wonderful joint violin-piano recital with Pamela Frank at Tilles last December, featuring Brahms's complete works for that combination of instruments), he would specialize in the works of Webern, Wolpe, Wuorinen, and pieces written for himby Berio, Goehr, Henze, Kirchner, Knussen, Lieberson and Takemitsu.
