Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Irmgard Seefried, Paul Hindemith, Ferdinand Leitner, Bernard Haitink – Lucerne Festival Historic Performances Vol. X – Wolfgang Schneiderhan plays Mozart, Henze & Martin (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:04 minutes | 408 MB | Genre: Classical
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In the spotlight of this latest volume in Audite’s Lucerne Festival edition is the Austrian violinist Wolfgang Schneiderhan (1915-2002). He was one of several artists who made an outstanding contribution to the Festival over the years since its inauguration in 1938. He first appeared there in 1949, and went on to make annual visits most years until 1985. His trio, in which he was joined by the pianist Edwin Fischer and the cellist Enrico Mainardi, appeared there several times. Schneiderhan also gave master-classes at Lucerne. The attraction of the present release is that it features three recordings revealing the diversity of the violinist’s work at the Festival. All are broadcast performances, culled from the archives of Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF).
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Wilhelm Kempff, Berliner Philharmoniker, Ferdinand Leitner – Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 (1962/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:17 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
In the most beautiful of all piano concertos it isn’t the orchestra which introduces the main theme but the piano”: Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991) justified in this way his preference for Beethoven’s lyrical Fourth Concerto in G major. During his long, troublefree career, he played both the Fourth and “Emperor” Concertos all over the world, from the capital of his homeland Prussia, the Berlin of the Kaisers, to Japan and South America, from Scandinavia to Baalbek. He used to improvise the two cadenzas in the G major Concerto, employing a musical imagination that had been schooled in composition, and he made no exception when he recorded the work in July 1961, at the age of 66. This poet of pianism was accompanied by an orchestra he knew well, the Berlin Philharmonic, under the distinguished German conductor Ferdinand Leitner (born 1912). Kempff’s witty and sensitive approach reveals new subtleties in the heroic E flat major Concerto, the “Emperor”, a performance recorded at the same time as the G major that has frequently been singled out for the highest praise. The Penguin Guide has called it “perhaps the most refreshing and imaginative of all. Strength there is in plenty and excitement, too. [Kempff’s] range of tone-colour is extraordinarily wide, from the merest half-tone as though the fingers are barely brushing the keys to the crisp impact of a dry fortissimo.”
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Wilhelm Kempff, Berliner Philharmoniker, Ferdinand Leitner – Beethoven. Piano Concertos (1961) [Japan 2019]
SACD Rip | 2x SHM-SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 171:03 minutes | Scans NOT included | 6,85 GB
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One of the 20th century’s most important pianists, Wilhelm Kempff found warmth in Beethoven where many others discovered only stress and passion. Toward the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth in 2020, the Beethoven recording by master pianist Wilhelm Kemp, who also celebrate the 125th anniversary of birth in 2020, in Japan have been released these five Beethoven’s piano concertos, accompanied by the Berlin Philharmonic under Ferdinand Leitner, and these is Kemp’s second recording of complete Piano Concertos. The first was a 1953 monaural recording. For this SACD reissue have been used the DSD master made by Emil Berliner Studios in Germany from the original master tapes.
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