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| A live performance dating from the 1980s, with a major Canadian orchestra under the baton of Neeme Jaervi. |
CD: Artist's private archives
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| A live performance with a major Canadian orchestra under the baton of Neeme Jaervi. |
CD: Artist's private archives
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| A preview from Robert Silverman's forthcoming 10-CD album of the complete sonatas by Beethoven |
MP3.com CD: A Beethoven Sampler, Vol. 1 -  buy it!
CD: Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
Label: OrpheumMasters
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| A selection from Robert Silverman's 10-CD album of the complete sonatas by Beethoven. This is slow movement of the famous "Pathetique." In following the composer's indicated inflections, Silverman avoids the often-heard 4-square phrasing. |
MP3.com CD: A Beethoven Sampler, Vol. 2 - buy it!
CD: Beethoven: Complete piano sonatas
Label: Orpheum Masters (follow links for availability)
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| A selection from Robert Silverman's recording of the complete Piano Sonatas of Beethoven. |
MP3.com CD: A Beethoven Sampler, Vol. 2 - buy it!
CD: Beethoven: The 32 Piano Sonatas
Label: Orpheum Masters KSP 810
Credits: Robert Silverman, piano |
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| A selection from Robert Silverman's 10-CD album of the complete sonatas by Beethoven. This well-known sonata is nicknamed the "Tempest," because Beethoven is said to have told his biographer Schindler to read the Shakespeare play when he ask the composer what this sonata was supposed to "mean". |
MP3.com CD: A Beethoven Sampler, Vol. 1 - buy it!
CD: Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
Label: Orpheum Masters KSP830
Credits: Robert Silverman, piano |
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| A selection from Robert Silverman's 10-CD album of the complete sonatas by Beethoven. |
MP3.com CD: A Beethoven Sampler, Vol. 2 - buy it!
CD: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas
Label: Orpheum Masters KSP 830
Credits: Robert Silverman, piano |
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| A selection from Robert Silverman's 10-CD album of the complete sonatas by Beethoven. This is one of the composer's most glorious creations. |
MP3.com CD: A Beethoven Sampler, Vol. 1 - buy it!
CD: Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
Label: Orpheum Masters KSP 830
Credits: Robert Silverman, piano |
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| A selection from Robert Silverman's 10-CD album of the complete sonatas by Beethoven. One of the composer's most famous, most dramatic works. |
MP3.com CD: A Beethoven Sampler, Vol. 2 - buy it!
CD: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas
Label: Orpheum Masters KSP 830
Credits: Robert Silverman, piano |
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| A selection from Robert Silverman's 10-CD album of the complete sonatas by Beethoven |
MP3.com CD: A Beethoven Sampler, Vol. 1 - buy it!
CD: Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
Label: Orpheum Masters KSP 830
Credits: Robert Silverman, piano |
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| A selection from Robert Silverman's 10-CD album of the complete sonatas by Beethoven. One of the most gigantic works composed for piano |
MP3.com CD: A Beethoven Sampler, Vol. 1 - buy it!
CD: Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
Label: Orpheum Masters KSP 830
Credits: Robert Silverman, piano |
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| The opening cut from the first of Robert Silverman's three albums devoted to the solo piano music of Brahms. |
MP3.com CD: Piano Music of Brahms, Vol. 1 - buy it!
CD: Piano Music of Brahms
Label: CBC
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| A selection from the first of Robert Silverman's three albums devoted to the solo piano music of Brahms. |
MP3.com CD: Piano Music of Brahms, Vol. 1 - buy it!
CD: Piano Music of Brahms
Label: CBC
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| Brahms' most tragic vision for piano, taken from the first of Robert Silverman's three albums devoted to the composer's solo piano music. |
MP3.com CD: Piano Music of Brahms, Vol. 1 - buy it!
CD: Piano Music of Brahms
Label: CBC
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| This is taken from a tape of a live performance by Robert Silverman. Hardly state of the art sonics, but it provides a vivid idea of the pianist's powerful conception of this movement. Check out his pianissimo double octaves in the central portion. |
CD: Private recording
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| This is taken from a tape of a live performance by Robert Silverman. Hardly state of the art sonics, but it provides a good idea of the Canadian pianist's elegant, idiomatic, and good-humored conception of this movement. This concerto reverts to the classical models of Mozart and Beethoven, wherein the important things are uttered in the opening movements, and the finale is the dessert. |
CD: private recording
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| A live performance that stresses the music's astonishing sensitivity and structure as well as its pyrotechnics. |
CD: Artist's private archives
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| After the final notes of the magnificent third movement, the listener is left with the illusion that this is only the end of our perception of the work but that the sonata has a life of its own and will continue, unperceived, eternally. In relatively few notes, Copland created a complex work, sometimes beautiful, sometimes humorous, sometimes grotesque, which reveals more of itself upon each hearing. It is, quite simply, a masterpiece by the greatest American composer in history, and a landmark of its genre in 20th-century music. |
CD: private sources
Label: LP long since deleted
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| This is, quite simply, one of the seminal piano works of the 20th century. Economic and austere to the extreme, it still manages to convey a sense of vastness and power. |
CD: performer's archives
Label: Live performance
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| One of the greatest of Liszt Transcendental Etudes. Note how Silverman manages to keep the entire work at a single tempo, and also how the piece grows and grows (and grows)from the first note to the last. No wonder Silverman won a Grand Prix du Disque from the Budapest Liszt Society for this recording! |
CD: Silverman: The Analog Years
Label: Orpheum Masters (forthcoming)
Credits: Robert Silverman, piano |
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| This live recording with the Boston Pops Orchestra under (or rather, in spite of) the baton of Arthur Fiedler) dates from 1962, when Silverman was in his early 20s. Silverman plays this much maligned piece as though he loves it. He recently reminisced: "At the first rehearsal, Fiedler asked me 'I presume you know my recording with Willy Kapell.' This put me on the spot because I knew Kapell's definitive recording very well, and I also knew that Fiedler didn't conduct it. Koussevitzky did. So, rather than get into a fight with him, I just said that I'd tried to find it in Vienna, where I was studying at the time, and couldn't. By the way, I still love it!" |
CD: Artist's archive
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| One of the composer's greatest works, based on a motive of Bach. Silverman won a Grand Prix du Disque from the Budapest Liszt Society for this recording. |
CD: Silverman: the Analog Years
Label: Orpheum Masters (forthcoming)
Credits: Robert Silverman, piano |
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| This is taken from a tape of a live performance by Robert Silverman, recorded in Vancouver in the 1970s under the baton of one of the best-known period-music conductors. Although not known as a Mozart specialist, Silverman observes the work's classical proportions, while infusing the music with his customary warmth and sensitivity, and the resulting collaboration was particularly happy. The cadenza is Silverman's own. |
CD: private recording
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| "This performance by Robert Silverman is characterized by a richness of expression that goes well beyond what we have come to expect in Rachmaninoff. There is awesome virtuosity, of course, but it is tempered with subtlety. The rendition is shaped not only in the fingers but in the intellect, not only in the intellect but in the spirit. It is kaleidoscopic, and it is altogether extraordinary." ... James Goodfriend, Music Editor, Stereo Review (retired). This is a live performance under the baton of Raffi Armenian. |
CD: Artist's archives
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| See description under 1st movement |
CD: Artist's archives
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| See information regarding the first movement. |
CD: Artist's archives
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| An excerpt from Robert Silverman's recent CD of both the composer's sonatas. When Silverman's original recording of this sonata was released on LP twenty years ago, Fanfare wrote: "Rachmaninoff's hand-divided melodies and counter-melodies sing out as they do on no other performance known to me. This is the kind of big, thunderous playing that makes one want to hear more." This recording comes from another session made slightly earlier for a record company that went belly-up before the album was released. For availability click on Silverman's website and go to the discography section. |
CD: Rachmaninoff
Label: OrpheumMasters
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| An excerpt from Robert Silverman's recently-released CD of both Rachmaninoff Sonatas. It is well known that two authentic versions exists of this sonata. Like many pianists, Silverman believes that Rachmaninoff, in his merciless efforts to condense the sonata in the revised version, not only edited out some of the work's most inspired writing, but occasionally omitted material which, at least to some ears, is necessary for the piece to progress convincingly from one point to the next. Nonetheless, one cannot ignore the fact that Rachmaninoff felt compelled to re-write the sonata measure by measure. The performance on this album represents, therefore, Silverman's attempt to restore to the later version some of the composer's most glorious moments, while respecting his goals in revising the work. For availability visit Silverman's website, and go to the discography page. |
CD: Rachmaninoff: 2 Piano Sonatas
Label: Orpheum Masters
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| This is arguably the finest set of variations for piano after Beethoven's Diabellis. This is a live performance from the 2000-2001 concert season. Silverman plays the earlier of the two editions. |
CD: Artist's private archives
Credits: Robert Silverman, piano |
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| A great one-movement concerto by the man TIME magazine called "the greatest composer of the 20th century. This "live-to-air" performance dates from the 1970s, with a long-defunct radio-sponsored chamber orchestra that was based in Winnipeg. |
CD: artist's archives
Label: private sources
Credits: Robert Silverman |
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| This was done with a student orchestra at a Canadian summer festival. Silverman pulls out all the stops in this extroverted performance. |
CD: Artist's private archives
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