Alexis Weissenberg: The Champagne Pianist

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Alexis Weissenberg: The Champagne Pianist

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EMI

Catalogue No:

6790862

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Discs:

10

Release date:

6th Feb 2012

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5099967908622

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Alexis Weissenberg: The Champagne Pianist


Bach, J S:

Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor, BWV903

Italian Concerto, BWV971

Beethoven:

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight': Adagio sostenuto

Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor, WoO59)

Rondo a capriccio in G major, Op. 129 ‘Rage over a lost penny'

Brahms:

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15

London Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini

Chopin:

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

Étude Op. 10 No. 3 in E major 'Tristesse'

Impromptu No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 29

Debussy:

Études pour piano No. 11 - Pour les arpeges composes

Clair de Lune (from Suite Bergamasque)

La plus que lente

Franck, C:

Symphonic Variations for piano & orchestra, M46

Berliner Philharmoniker, Berlin Philharmoniker

Prélude, Fugue et Variation Op. 18

Gershwin:

Rhapsody in Blue

Berliner Philharmoniker, Seiji Ozawa

I Got Rhythm Variations

Berliner Philharmoniker, Seiji Ozawa

Liszt:

Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major)

Valse-Impromptu, S.213

Mozart:

Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K271 "Jeunehomme"

Wiener Symphoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini

Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan'

Wiener Symphoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini

Mussorgsky:

Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version)

Prokofiev:

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26

Orchestre de Paris, Seiji Ozawa

Rachmaninov:

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

Orchestre National de France, Leonard Bernstein

Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 in C sharp minor

Ravel:

Piano Concerto in G major

Orchestre de Paris, Seiji Ozawa

Schumann:

Kinderszenen, Op. 15

Fantasie in C major, Op. 17

Humoreske, Op. 20

Album for the Young, Op. 68

Arabeske in C major, Op. 18

Scriabin:

Nocturne in D flat major Op. 9 No. 2

Étude Op. 8 No. 11 in B flat minor

Severac:

Valse romantique

Tchaikovsky:

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23

Orchestre de Paris, Herbert von Karajan

Lullaby, Op. 16 No. 1

Vladigerov:

Improvisation

plus:

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750

[1]-[9] Transcriptions of works by other composers 45.14

[ 1] Chorale Prelude: Jesus bleibet meine Freude [Jesu, joy of man’s desiring] HESS 3.25

[ 2] Chorale Prelude: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BUSONI 4.13

[ 3] Chorale Prelude: Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein BUSONI 1.48

[ 4] Siciliano in G minor (from Flute Sonata No. 2 in E flat, BWV. 1031) LÜSTNER 1.37

[ 5] Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV. 543 LISZT 7.35

[ 6] Chorale Prelude: Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ BUSONI 3.09

[ 7] Chaconne in D minor (from Partita No. 2, BWV, 1004) BUSONI 13.03

[ 8] Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV. 565 BUSONI 8.15

[ 9] Prelude in B minor (from the Notebook of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach) SILOTI 2.09


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This fine collection has a diverse range of well know piano repertoire from Bach to Gershwin and illustrates Weissenberg’s brilliance and his exciting lyrical playing. Including both orchestral and solo piano works this collection offers a magnificent range of repertoire for the piano enthusiast.

Weissenberg is critically acclaimed for his interpretations of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1 and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concert No.2 both of which are included in this set.

A pianist of virtuoso technique, with wide repertory but a particular interest in the Romantic period (especially the music of Chopin and Schumann), he can give in performance and recordings the impression of a forceful flamboyance of style.

Also of key interest to any fan of Weissenberg’s recordings is a fine disc of his concert encores. This delightful collection includes magnificent interpretations of such well-known piano repertoire as Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Liszt’s Liebestraum and Rachmaninov’s Prelude in C# minor.

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