Rudolf Serkin Archive
American First Sonatas – Sonatas by REINAGLE, MACDOWELL, GRIFFES & SIEGMEISTER – Cecile Licad, p. – Danacord
Cecile Licad embarks on a fine tour of first American piano sonatas, our home-spun answer to European models. American First Sonatas – REINAGLE: Philadelphia Sonata No. 1 in D Major; MACDOWELL: Piano Sonata No. 1 in g, Op. 45 “Tragica”; GRIFFES: Sonata for Piano; SIEGMEISTER: American Sonata (No. 1) – Cecile Licad, p. – Danacord DACOCD 774, 71:04 (6/6/16) [Distr. by Albany] *****: Danacord has initiated “The Anthology of American Piano Music,” a series designed “to show the stylistic breadth, high musical quality and great originality of the best American piano works. The series contains underrated, neglected or forgotten masterworks of the American literature for solo piano…selected primarily for their musical worth.” Philippines-born Cecile Licad (b. 1961), a pupil at the Curtis Institute of such luminaries as Rudolf Serkin, Seymour Lipkin, and Mieczyslaw Horszowski, employs her prodigious gifts (rec. 1-3 July 2015) in the service of four such neglected works, of which the Sonata in D by Alexander Reinagle constitutes the first piano sonata to be composed in North America (1786). Reinagle (1856-1809) shares a birth year with Mozart and the year of his death coincides with that of Haydn. Educated in music at Edinburgh, Scotland, he became a member […]
Monteux at Tanglewood Vol. 2 = MENDELSSOHN: Piano Con. No. 2; Sym. No. 4; SCHUMANN: Intro & Allegro appassionato; Manfred Ov. – w/ Serkin, p. – Pristine
Some rousing Mendelssohn and Schumann grace this live Monteux concert from “The Shed” at Tanglewood. Monteux at Tanglewood Volume 2 = MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in g minor, Op. 25; Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 “Italian”; SCHUMANN: Introduction and Allegro appassionato in G Major, Op. 92; Manfred Overture, Op. 115 – Rudolf Serkin, p./ Boston Sym. Orch./ Pierre Monteux – Pristine Audio PASC 473, 77:36 [avail. in several diff. formats from www.pristineclassical.com] ****: The concert of 1 August 1959 for the summer music festival of the Boston Symphony features two veteran musicians, Pierre Monteux (1875-1964) and pianist Rudolf Serkin (1903-1991). Collectors are likely aware that Serkin recorded the two concertante pieces for CBS with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra under slightly less manic conditions. Still, if one can forgive Serkin’s finger slips – mostly in the Concerto’s first movement – the performance here proffers a musical fireball by two acolytes of the Romantic ethos. Monteux opens with a work he did not record for RCA commercially, the “Italian” Symphony of Mendelssohn. Monteux takes the oft-neglected repeat in the first movement, and then proceeds to compensate for the added minute by injecting a heated velocity into […]
REGER: String Quartet in E-flat Major; Violin Sonata in f-sharp minor: Allegretto; Suite in Old Style – Bonus Tracks: Clarinet Quintet in A Major: Vivace; String Quartet in E-flat Major: Quasi presto – Busch-Quartet – Testament
Guild restores the happy collaboration of violinist Adolf Busch and his colleagues in the music of Max Reger.
The Busch Quartet plays BRAHMS = String Quartet in C Minor; String Quartet in A Minor; String Quartet in B-flat Major; Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor – Rudolf Serkin, p./ Busch String Q. – Pristine Audio (2 CDs)
The classic interpreter of Brahms, the Busch Quartet, realizes the Master’s complete quartets with often gripping results.
Adolf Busch: The Berlin Recordings 1921-1929 = Works of BACH, BRAHMS, CORELLI, DVORAK, TARTINI, GOSSEC, SCHUMANN, MOZART, VERDI, POPORA, SCHUBERT ETC. – Adolf Busch, violin/ Busch String Quartet/ Bruno Seidler-Winkler & Rudolf Serkin, piano – Guild (2 CDs)
For the first time, the Adolf Busch legacy from Weimar Germany is assembled for our delectation of the foremost violinist and chamber musician in Europe at that time.
MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concerto No. 1 – Rudolf Serkin, p./Philadelphia Orch. /Eugene Ormandy; Piano Con. – Rena Kyriakou, p./ Vienna Sym. Strings/Mathieu Lange – Top Music Gold
Both recordings are probably now in the public domain, so Top Music is doing a similar reissue practice here to HDTT
Rudolf Serkin plays BEETHOVEN, Vol. I = Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major; Piano Concerto No. 4 – Rudolf Serkin, piano/Orch. “Alessandro Scarlatti” di Napoli della RAI/Franco Caracciolo/Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI/Ferruccio Scaglia – IDI
Two concertos from Rudolf Serkin’s Italian cycle of Beethoven, 1958.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
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