Rich, warm, ripe, and full of wisdom, the Emerson Quartet's 2007 recording of Brahms' three string quartets for Deutsche Grammophon is not only the finest recording of the group's 30-year career, but the recording that confirms its title as America's Greatest Quartet. Here, the Emerson's mastery of ensemble playing is complete. With its easy ...
Vanguard Classics' Leon Fleisher: The Journey isn't a typical classical piano recital disc. Concert pianist Leon Fleisher had only been enjoying use of both hands for a decade as the right hand clenched up due to focal dystonia in 1964 and stayed that way for 30 years. That Fleisher was able to play is in itself a miracle, and he didn't take it ...
Two Hands The title says it all. After 35 years of suffering from dystonia, a crippling neurological order that affected his right hand, pianist Leon Fleisher has received treatments that have allowed him to return to performing two-hand repertoire. Not all two-hand repertoire, mind you: the daredevil virtuoso repertoire of Fleisher's early ...
Can it be true that these fresh, poetic, powerful, and overwhelmingly virtuosic performances of Grieg and Schumann's piano concertos by Leon Fleisher with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra have never been released on compact disc before, that in fact the last time they were available was as a budget-priced LP reissue in the early '70s? It's ...
It was the heroic age, the postwar age when American pianists first made their mark in the great wide world. The heroes took many forms: the apollonian Van Cliburn, the dionysic Byron Janis, and the mercurial Gary Graffman, along with many, many others. The most intellectually brilliant and technically incendiary member of the pantheon was Leon ...
"The borderline is very thin between clarity and coolness, self-discipline and severity," conductor George Szell once remarked to a friend. "There exists different nuances of warmth -- from the chaste warmth of Mozart to the sensuous warmth of Tchaikovsky." Chaste warmth are the watchwords of this fabulous collection of Szell's Mozart recordings ...
A prominent figure in American modernist circles through most of the twentieth century, Leon Kirchner is a highly regarded composer, though his music is perhaps more often discussed than performed, due to its dense chromaticism, angular lines, and generally dark and introspective expressions. This 2007 release from Albany brings together Kirchner ...
In every way that matters, this set of the Beethoven piano concertos with Leon Fleischer, George Szell, and the Cleveland Orchestra from the late '50s and early '60s is the first great American cycle of the concertos. Fleischer is a brilliant pianist with a hard-muscled tone, an athletic technique, and a fluent sense of tempo. His interpretations ...
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