Grieg s music, while based on the German tradition, magically captures the spirit and grandeur of his native Norway. Peer Gynt includes two perennial favourites, Morning Mood , which conjures imagesof the sun rising over fjords, and the frenetic In the Hall of the Mountain King . His popular Piano Concerto is a perfect blend of drama and lyricism.
Edvard Grieg died over 100 years ago, but his music still retains a timeless magic and freshness. The Holberg Suite is based on the form of a French baroque dance suite, in this case one with unforgettable melodic charm. The Piano Concerto is deservedly popular, combining established Germanic structure with a wealth of warmly expressive romantic character and Norwegian dance rhythms. Grieg's Lyric Suite reflects Norwegian peasant life and nature, each movement representing a single mood, and the composer's remarkable skill in orchestration.
At the height of his popularity, pianist Oscar Levant was the highest-paid concert artist in America. He outdrew Horowitz and Rubinstein, with whom he shared the distinction of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He performed under conductors including Toscanini, Beecham, Mitropoulos, Reiner and Ormandy, and was the definitive interpreter of his friend George Gershwin. Levant's 1945 recording of Rhapsody in Blue remained one of Columbia Records' best-selling albums for decades. That classic interpretation and all his other recordings for the label, spanning the years 1942 to 1958, have now b... [Read More]
Limited Edition 80-CD set presenting Claudio Arrau’s complete Philips and American Decca recordings plus his live recording of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4 with Leonard Bernstein on DG. Arrau was among the most deeply satisfying interpreters of Mozart, Brahms, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin and particularly Beethoven. Includes recordings with Sir Collin Davis, Bernard Haitink, Leonard Bernstein, Henryk Szeryng, János Starker and Arthur Grumiaux.
Sonates pour violon & piano : Grieg (n°1 & n°3), Fauré (n°1), Brahms (n°2 & n°3), Franck (Sonate en la), Beethoven (n°5 & n°9) - Œuvres diverses de Kreisler, Smetana, Benjamin, Bloch, Bach... / Mischa Elman, violon & Joseph Seiger, piano
Nobody plays the piano better than Leonard Pennario, wrote the eminent critic Andrew Porter in Londons New Statesman in 1952, when the competition would have included none less than Horowitz in his prime. That year, Pennario began recording for Capitol Records in Los Angeles, and a decade later he moved to RCA Victor, for which label he made a series of distinguished albums. To mark the tenth anniversary of Pennarios death, Sony Classical is now pleased to reissue all of the pianists RCA recordings together for the first time in a single set. Born in 1924 in Buffalo, New York, Pennario gave hi... [Read More]
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