Cembal d’amour Archive
Mordecai Shehori – The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 10 = SCHUBERT: Impromptu in f, D, No. 1; CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 3 in b; Mazurka in c-sharp; PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet: Dance of the Girls with Lillies, The Montagues and the Capulets, Suggestion Diabolique; SHEHORI: Lament – In Memory of 9/11/2001 Victims; GLUCK: Melodie from Orfeo – Mordecai Shehori, p. – Cembal d’amour
The tenth of the Shehori New York recitals gives us a composite of gorgeously-rendered works. Mordecai Shehori – The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 10 = SCHUBERT: Impromptu in f, D. 935, No. 1; CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 3 in b, Op. 58; Mazurka in c-sharp, Op. 30, No. 4; PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet, Op. […]
Shehori – The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 9 = Works of BEETHOVEN, LISZT, SCHUBERT, TCHAIKOVSKY, CHOPIN & MOSZKOWSKI – Mordecai Shehori, p. – Cembal d’amour CD
A moment of New York musical history is preserved, in which Shehori pays homage to Vladimir Horowitz. Shehori – The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 9 = BEETHOVEN: 15 Variations and Fugue in E-flat Major, Op. 35 “Eroica”; LISZT: Impromptu in F-sharp Major; Au Bord d’une Source in A-flat Major; Canzone “Nessun maggior dolore” (after […]
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 14, “Moonlight”; BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major – Mindru Katz, p./ Jerusalem Philharmonic Orch./ Mandi Rodan – Cembal d’amour
Masterful Beethoven and Brahms from Cembal d’mour’s keyboard giant, Mindru Katz.
BACH: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk. 2: Preludes and Fugues, 1-12 – Mordecai Shehori, p. – Cembal d’amour
Mordecai Shehori’s latest installment of Bach WTC Book II confirms his thoroughly “singing” approach to this most rigorous of keyboard studies.
BACH: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes & Fugues 13-24 – Mordecai Shehori, piano – Cembal d’amour
Mordecai Shehori continues his virtually priestly devotion to the vocal Bach style with his second installment from WTC, Book I.
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata in C Major; BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1 – Mindru Katz, piano/ Israel Philharmonic Orch./ Josef Krips – Cembal d’amour
Mindru Katz at his elegant and explosive best in the music of Beethoven and Brahms.
“Mordecai Shehori plays Dances and Visions” = Works of LULLY, DEBUSSY, RACHMANINOV, CHOPIN, SAINT-SAENS – Cembal d’amour
Mordecai Shehori explores music that extends over several centuries with a Romantic’s passion for color, taste, and naturally poetic bravura.
Mordecai Shehori New York Concerts, Vol. 7 = CLEMENTI: Sonata in F-sharp Minor; TCHAIKOVSKY: “Grande Sonate” in G Major; KHACHATURIAN: Vocalise; LISZT: Polonaise from Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin”; BACH: Adagio; MOSZKOWSKI: Etude in F Major; CHOPIN: Mazurka in G Minor; Polonaise in A-flat Major “Heroic” – Mordecai Shehori, p. – Cembal d’amour
Selected from recital programs at Weill Hall and the 92nd St. Y in NYC, 1979-90.
CHOPIN: 12 Etudes, Op. 10 and 12 Etudes; Trois Nouvelles Etude for the "Methode des Methodes" – Mordecai Shehori, p. – Cembal d'amour
An edition of the Chopin Etudes that seeks “truth and poetry,” the Shehori version should stand as a testament to scholarship and musical devotion at its highest level.
Mindru Katz plays BEETHOVEN = Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, “Tempest”; Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, “Hammerklavier” – Mindru Katz, p. – Cembal d’amour
A Beethoven journey in the Horowitz style, except that master never dared these terrible beauties that Katz executes with masterly passion.
Mindru Katz Plays in Concert = CHOPIN: 24 Preludes; MARCELLO: Adagio from Oboe Concerto in D Minor; KABALEVSKY: 3 Preludes – Cembal d’amour
Mindru Katz again asserts himself as a Chopinist extraordinaire in these Preludes from Jerusalem, 1969.
Mordecai Shehori: The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 6 = Works of CZERNY, BRAHMS, DEBUSSY, RAVEL, HOROWITZ, BACH = Cembal d'amour
Volume 6 of the Shehori New York concerts extends his mastery over a diverse range of music, much of it honoring his mentor and teacher, Vladimir Horowitz.
BEETHOVEN: String Trios – Erick Freidman, v./ Emanuel Vardi, viola/ Jascha Silberstein, cello – Cembal d’amour
Lovely, even astonishing, ensemble from three string masters realize the early Beethoven trios to perfection in these 1977 recordings.
Shehori plays BEETHOVEN, Vol. I: Rondo in G Major; Piano Sonata No. 8 “Pathetique”; Piano Sonata No. 21 “Waldstein”; Piano Sonata No. 23 “Appassionata” – Mordecai Shehori, p. – Cembal d’amour
Virtuoso Mordecai Shehori institutes a cycle of Beethoven sonatas and selected piano pieces, beginning with three of the most powerful and musically familiar.
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 20; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3 – Mindru Katz, piano/ Jerusalem Sym. Orch./ Gary Bertini (Mozart)/ Mendi Rodan – Cembal d’amour
Israeli virtuoso Mindru Katz delivers two powerhouse renditions of Mozart and Beethoven concerto staples.
David Nadien, violin, in works of HANDEL, MOZART, ST.-SAENS, SARASATE & CHAUSSON – Cembal d'amour
Another masterful assemblage of David Nadien spectaculars, each ravishing, fastidious, and eminently musical in the manner that emulates Nadien’s contemporary, Jascha Heifetz.
Mordecai Shehori plays CHOPIN, Vol. 2 = The Four Ballades; other works – Mordecai Shehori, p. – Cembal d’amour
A musical descendant of both Mindru Katz and Vladimir Horowitz, Shehori comes to Chopin with a strong sense of literally-dramatic tradition.
Emanuel Vardi: In Memoriam = Works of PARTOS; HINDEMITH; COLGRASS; SERLY; & WALTON – Cembal d'amour
Cembal d’amour pays fine homage to Emanuel Vardi, one of the more eloquent advocates for viola music in the modern repertory.
Mordecai Shehori – The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 5 = Works of BEETHOVEN, WEBER, SCHUBERT, CHOPIN, SCHUMANN & LISZT – Mordecai Shehori, piano – Cembal d'amour
Pianist and producer Mordecai Shehori consolidates pieces recorded by him in concert 1976-1984, from both Carnegie Recital Hall and Merkin Concert Hall.
Mindru Katz plays SCHUMANN = Kinderszenen, Op. 15; Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17 – Mindru Katz, piano – Cembal d’amour
Piano virtuoso Mindru Katz reveals the poetic vigor and intimate candor of his Schumann in recital from 1974.
CHOPIN Vol. I: 19 Waltzes – Mordecai Shehori, piano – Cembal d’amour
The Chopin Waltzes–here conceived as an ongoing cycle–and rendered much as the composer intended, virtually for the first time, by the conscientious Mordecai Shehori.
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18; Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 = Shura Cherkassky, piano/Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/ Sergiu Comissiona (Op. 18)/Sten Frykberg (Op. 30) – Cembal d’amour
Keyboardist Shura Cherkassky finds a new resource for his fascinating legacy in two of Rachmaninov’s concertos captured from live concerts in Gothenburg, Sweden.