Wilhelm Kempff - Schumann, Beethoven, Brahms (2001)
Wilhelm Kempff - Schumann, Beethoven, Brahms (2001)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:19:48 | 183 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Orfeo D'or | Catalog: C570011B
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:19:48 | 183 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Orfeo D'or | Catalog: C570011B
Karajan’s artistic grip on the Salzburg Festival unofficially spanned three decades and woe betide anyone who upset him. Whether Kempff did or did not must be a matter of conjecture. What is sure is that this was his one and only appearance at the event. He was 63 years old at the time and lived to the ripe old age of 96, outliving Karajan himself. He was also a major recording artist for DG and their influence on the Festival was almost as pervasive as the conductor’s. Nevertheless this disc manages to fill a gap in Kempff’s discography with the Beethoven and Brahms works, two of the composers (Schubert and Schumann the others) with whose music this great pianist is readily associated. Kempff’s playing has two persistent virtues, his sense of rhythm and spontaneity. Much of this was the consequence of playing chamber music with such greats as Kulenkampff, Schneiderhan, Menuhin, Fournier and Rostropovich. Brendel is an admiring disciple and attended the master’s renowned classes in interpretation regularly held in the Italian town of Positano, where Kempff lived.
By all accounts it was hot and humid in the Mozarteum on 31 July 1958 for Kempff’s recital, but he seemed unaffected and the audience were engrossed in his poetic playing of Schumann’s Fantasie. He followed it with the late Bagatelles of Beethoven, rarely heard in the concert hall, and suffused the six with simplicity and clarity whilst dextrously fingering their more florid phrases in a highly focused performance. Brahms’ youthful sonata, his ‘Song of Love and Death’, is a highly Romantic showpiece which Kempff exploits to the full, belying his more advanced years, facing head on the technical hazards, such as the first movement’s complexities, and painting vivid colours of sound and dynamics.
In my review of another CD from this series (Carl Schuricht conducting Stölzel and Beethoven) I may have implied that the Orfeo D’Or series was but a dozen discs. In fact whereas there are that number listed of orchestral concerts, there are plenty more devoted to solo recitals such as this, as well as chamber music and song recitals. – Christopher Fifield
Wilhelm Kempff - Schumann, Beethoven, Brahms (2001)
Track List:
Schumann
Fantasie in C Major, Op. 1700:29:34
1. I. Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen - Im Legendenton - Erstes tempo 00:11:11
2. II. Mässig 00:07:47
3. III. Langsam getragen 00:10:36
Beethoven
6 Bagatelles, Op. 12600:17:26
4. No. 1 in G Major 00:03:08
5. No. 2 in G Minor 00:02:33
6. No. 3 in E-Flat Major 00:02:32
7. No. 4 in B Minor 00:03:48
8. No. 5 in G Major 00:01:59
9. No. 6 in E-Flat Major 00:03:26
Brahms
Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 500:32:16
10. I. Allegro maestoso 00:06:39
11. II. Andante espressivo 00:10:35
12. III. Scherzo: Allegro energico 00:04:34
13. IV. Intermezzo (Ruckblick): Andante molto 00:03:15
14. V. Finale: Allegro moderato ma rubato 00:07:13
Performers:
Wilhelm Kempff - piano
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