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| The original 1874 version of the seminal Russian work, without additions or mutilations. |
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Credits: Recorded live in Boston's Jordan Hall, 5/14/03 |
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| The 1874 original version, performed live in Boston, 1/26/03. |
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Credits: Recording: Kazuto Maekawa |
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| Recorded in Jordan Hall, Boston, 6/3/2003 |
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Credits: Kazuto Maekawa, engineer |
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| Recorded live 1/26/03 |
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Credits: Kazuto Maekawa, engineer |
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| Live performance, 1/26/03 |
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Credits: Kazuto Maekawa, engineer |
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| Live performance, 1/26/03 |
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Credits: Kazuto Maekawa, engineer |
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| Live performance, 1/26/03 |
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Credits: Kazuto Maekawa, engineer |
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| Bach wrote The Italian Concerto in 1735 and published it, together with the lesser-known but equally beautiful Overture in the French Style, as the second part of his collection called Clavierübung (Keyboard Practice). The first part of that collection was printed in 1731 and comprised the six Partitas. The Italian Concerto was modeled after the contemporary Italian concerto patterns, most notably those by Antonio Vivaldi, whose music Bach intimately knew and deeply appreciated; hence, the succession of the obligatory three movements here is fast-slow-fast. An interesting feature of Clavierübung II is that it specifies a two-manual harpsichord as its medium, as opposed to the medium-neutral Clavierübung I, which can be rendered on any kind of keyboard. Both The Italian Concerto and The Overture in the French Style employ orchestra-like contrasts between forte and piano (tutti and solo effects), which makes the use of a two-manual harpsichord indispensable. Of course, all of these effects are perfectly possible on the modern grand piano! |
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Credits: Recordeed 3/21/95, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Brad Michel. |
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| This movement, featuring a long oboe-like cantilena with an accompaniment containing a mesmerizing ostinato figure, is clearly modeled after the contemporary Italian essays in the genre -- Bach transcribed some of the concertos by Vivaldi, Marcello, etc., for solo keyboard prior to embarking on composing this piece. |
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Credits: Recorded 3/21/95, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Brad Michel. |
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| This is one of Bach's flashiest, most extroverted, "kick-posterior" movements, played here with appropriate brio. :) |
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Credits: Recorded 3/21/95, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Brad Michel. |
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Credits: Live recording, 1992 |
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| NEW RECORDING!
Composed in 1892, this is the earliest of Rachmaninoff's Preludes and arguably his most popular work. |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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MP3.com CD: THE SLAVIC SOUL - buy it!
Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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| NEW RECORDING!
This gorgeous piece, which my best friend nicknamed "Le petit poisson perdu" because of its wavy 32-note figures, was composed in 1910. |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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| NEW RECORDING!
A macabre, yet passionate and ultimately transcendental "Russian minuet," composed in 1903. |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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| NEW RECORDING!
A heartbreaking vision of the shy, yet overwhelming Russian spring, composed in 1903. |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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| NEW RECORDING!
The most brilliant and optimistic Rachmaninoff prelude, composed in 1903. |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02. Recording engineer: Patrick Keating |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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| This is the first sonata that Schumann ever completed, and perhaps the most daring of the three that he composed. It was written in 1832-6 and published in 1836 as Opus 11 under the names of Florestan and Eusebius, the two fictitious characters representing the two polar aspects of Schumann's personality. The Sonata is dedicated to Clara Wieck, the famous virtuosa who eventually became Schumann's wife after several tumultuous years of courtship. The Sonata's first movement is based, in fact, upon two motifs from Clara's youthful "Fandango." The Sonata's second movement - the sublime Aria - is a transcription of Schumann's own early song "To Anna" (1828). The Scherzo (third movement) is full of daring surprises, the biggest of which - a caricature of the recitative from the third movement of Beethoven's Opus 110 - comes in the Intermezzo (the Scherzo's second Trio). The Finale - a rondo of gigantic proportions - is remarkably "carnavalesque" in its array of contrasting characters, and builds up to a rousing close. |
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Credits: Recorded live 3/17/92, Jordan Hall, Boston |
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Credits: Recorded live 3/17/92, Jordan Hall, Boston |
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Credits: Recorded live 3/17/92, Jordan Hall, Boston |
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Credits: Recorded live 3/17/92, Jordan hall, Boston |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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| This otherworldly Nocturne was composed in 1846 -- the most beautiful and ethereal music in the known universe. |
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Credits: Live performance, 2001 |
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| A somewhat Freudian rendition of this Russian-winterscape-with-a-troika composed in 1910. |
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Credits: Live performance, 1996 |
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| A magical Liszt piano transcription of a deeply moving monolog by the opera's principal heroine. |
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Credits: Live performance, 1991 |
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| Composed in 1838-9, "Il Penseroso" ("The Thinker") was inspired by the Michelangelo statue that adorns the tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici in the San Lorenzo Church in Florence. Like "Après une lecture du Dante," "Il Penseroso" is a part of the "Deuxième Année de Pèlerinage" - a cycle inspired by Italian works of art and literature. |
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Credits: Live performance, 1991 |
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| This work, inspired by Dante's "Divine Comedy," is the last piece in the "Deuxième Année de Pèlerinage" (Second Year of Pilgrimage), the cycle inspired by Italian works of art. It was written in 1837-49 and first published in 1858; it is subtitled "Fantasia quasi Sonata." |
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Credits: Live performance, 1999 |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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MP3.com CD: SCHEPKIN PLAYS BACH - buy it!
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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MP3.com CD: SCHEPKIN PLAYS BACH - buy it!
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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Credits: Recorded 1/13/02, Jordan Hall, Boston. Recording: Patrick Keating |
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