Excellent jam session, sound recording and remastering.
Alexis Weissenberg The Complete RCA Album Collection brings together all of the pianist s 1967/70 RCA Victor sessions for the first time in one place and remastered from the original analog sources, along with his 1949 recorded début that first appeared as a ten-inch Columbia Masterworks LP. The recordings include Chopin s Scherzi Nos. 1 and 2 and Sonata No. 3 in B minor, three Haydn Sonatas, a Debussy recital, Bartók s Piano Concerto No. 2, plus interpretations of Rachmaninoff s complete Préludes and Piano Concerto No. 3 that became modern-day reference versions. The booklet contains full discographical information and an essay by Jed Distler.
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1929, Alexis Weissenberg s musical journey effectively began during the war. In 1944, after three months confined to a prison camp, the teenage pianist and his mother escaped via Turkey to Israel. At 17 he travelled alone to America, where he had lessons with Artur Schnabel and Wanda Landowska. He studied at the Juilliard School with Olga Samaroff, who had taught Rosalyn Tureck and William Kapell. After placing first in the prestigious Leventritt Competition and a highly acclaimed 1948 New York début, Weissenberg became an overnight American sensation. In the aftermath of his early successes, however, Weissenberg retreated from concertizing to rethink his career and focus his priorities. In 1967 Weissenberg returned to New York to play with the Philharmonic as a last-minute replacement for Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. These events helped re-establish Weissenberg as a major, international artist. Tours, recordings and master classes followed steadily over the next four decades. After battling Parkinson s disease for years, Weissenberg passed away in January 2012.
WHO Trio “Less Is More”
Agreed a good one
and a vocalist sounding like Ronnie James Dio !
Not to shock you or anything, but I always liked Jørn Lande a bit more than Ronnie James Dio.
Check out his vocals on the second Ark album called ‘Burn The Sun’.
I am pretty sure you will not just like it, but absolutely love it.
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Oh, and please ignore the horrible inadequate review of the Ark album.
Trying something different …
Thanks Henri I’ll give it a whirl!
Dutilleux: Violin Concerto “L’Arbre des Songes” - Isaac Stern