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Extractions: Performing Arts Library International Piano Archives at Maryland The Collection William Kapell was a brilliant American pianist whose life and career were cut short by the crash of an airplane on which he was returning from an overseas tour in October 1953. He was barely 31, but was already acknowledged as the leading American pianist of his generation; some have said he would have been the greatest pianist of the 20th century. Born in 1922, Kapell studied piano with Dorothea Anderson LaFollette at the Yorkville Settlement School in New York and with Olga Samaroff at the Philadelphia Conservatory and, later, at the Juilliard School. In 1941, he won both a Naumburg Award and the Philadelphia Orchestra Youth Concert competition. This gave him opportunities for major debuts both as a recitalist and as a player of concerti. In 1942, he was given the Town Hall Endowment Series Award, providing him with yet another Town Hall recital during the 1942-43 season. He then signed a contract with RCA Victor and recorded a wide variety of repertoire for that company. (All of Kapell's RCA recordings have been reissued in compact disc format.) He toured North America annually thereafter, performing both with major orchestras and as a recitalist. He became an advocate of contemporary American piano music, and seems to have been especially prized by American composers. In 1945, he played a series of concerts in Australia, beginning to build an international reputation. He toured South America three times (1946, 1948, and 1951). He seemed to have a particular affection for music of South America that is reflected in his personal collection of piano music. He first played in Europe in 1947. In mid-1953 he performed in Tel Aviv, played at Casals's Prades Festival, and gave his final series of performances during the course of a three-month Australian tour. Returning from Australia, his plane crashed into a mountain moments before its scheduled landing in San Francisco.
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Extractions: Kapell, William Edifying Spectacle Thanks for helping, Richard Home Music Styles Classical ... ( K ) / Kapell, William Search All categories Baby Books Classical Music DVD Electronics Kitchen Magazines Office Products Popular Music Computers Software Toys Videos Video Games Cell Phones Books, Music, DVD Books I'm no music critic, but I am finicky about what I listen to. I bought this disc because I was looking for the Rachmaninov piece; I had never heard of Kapell before. The recordings are re-mastered from the original 78s and sound fabulousthey did a really good job, so don't worry! The performances... more info Customer Rating:
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Extractions: Click the link for more information. ) was an American Pianist A pianist is a person who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an orchestra or smaller ensemble, or accompany one or more singers or solo instrumentalists. A performing classical pianist usually starts playing piano at a very young age, some as early as three years old. Many well-known classical composers were able pianists themselves; for example, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, Robert Schumann, and Sergei Rachmaninov were all virtuoso pianists. Some pianists have special preferences as to which composer's music they play.
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Extractions: RCA Red Seal 68442 (9 CDs) (M) TT: 10 hours + This is a release of enormous interest: "The William Kapell Edition," a 9-CD set of most available recordings by the remarkable American pianist who died so young more than four decades ago. William Kapell, born in New York September 20, 1922, studied with Olga Samaroff, won the 1940 Philadelphia Orchestra Youth Contest while still at Juilliard, and the following year won both the Naumburg and Town Hall Endowment Awards. More honors followed, and in 1942 he played the Khachaturian Concerto with Efrem Kurtz and the New York Philharmonic. This music became identified with him and in 1946 he recorded it with Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony, a best-selling classical 78rpm album, one of his first under an exclusive contract with RCA. This was an enormous loss to the musical world, but at least we can remember him through his recordings. Some were issued years ago on CD, but now we have all of his RCA recordings as well as some from other sources, collected in one set; most have been unavailable for decades, and many are issued for the first time in any format. The set includes the three concertos he recorded for RCA (Beethoven Second, Khachaturian, Rachmaninoff Second), and the same composer's
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Extractions: item name / # description price order Inventory of the ICA Research Center Score Collection, 3rd Edition This Inventory of the Score Collection in the International Clarinet Association Research Center is the third edition of a catalog that has been available since 1982 from the University of Maryland, where the ICA Research Center resides. The scores are available at The Performing Arts Library, at the University of Maryland, in the Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA). The inventory is also available online. (See About the ICA Research Center Score Collection for more details) Enlightened Advocacy: Proceedings of the 1999 Charles Fowler Colloquium Special Collections in Performing Arts is happy to announce the publication of Enlightened Advocacy: Implications of Research for Arts Education Policy and Practice , Proceedings of the 1999 Charles Fowler Colloquium on Innovation in Arts Education held April 16-17, 1999 at the University of Maryland. (See Special Collections in Performing Arts for more details) Pianists - On and Off the Record
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Extractions: September 27, 1998 America's first great pianist has finally been accorded the tribute he deserves. In a sumptuously produced, exhaustively documented, and altogether thrilling new set of nine compact discs, BMG Classics (formerly RCA Victor) has assembled virtually everything ever recorded for the company by William Kapell (1922-1953), who was a celebrated artist by the time he was in his twenties and who was killed in a freakish plane crash at the age of 31. It would not be entirely accurate to suggest that Kapell has been forgotten in the 45 years since his death: There have been a number of reissues (including some so-called "pirated" performances that are excluded from this set) and the University of Maryland named its biannual piano competition after him. Still, this release will come as a revelation for most listeners, for we are finally permitted a more or less complete access to Kapell's legacy, and it is nothing less than staggering. Here is Kapell in all of his manifestations in unfailingly patrician and meticulously thought-through performances of Chopin; in soulful, impassioned chamber music recordings with Jascha Heifetz, William Primrose and Edmund Kurtz; in dazzlingly virtuosic renditions of the finger-busting showpieces of Aram Khachaturian and Serge Prokofiev. Not to mention superb Bach, matchless Copland, a lithe, radiant performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat and many others 10 hours of glorious music-making, all in all.
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Extractions: October 30, 1953 When I first heard him at Ravinia in 1943, he was 20, catapulted to fame by the Khatchaturian Concerto he was playing. It was not much of a concerto, but no one else has played it like that, with beauty and sweep and fire. It served notice, that concerto, of what was to come. Perhaps it was only just that it came, in a flood of splendor, at that same Ravinia in the summer of 1947 when he played the Third Rachmaninoff Concerto. No one who heard it will forget that performance. With it Kapell moved into the company of Horowitz and Rachmaninoff himself, who alone had conquered the citadel of that strange concerto, which is cheap unless it is magnificent. He forged the full splendor of the score from his amazing equipment of poetry and fire, of impishness and blazing technique. He conjured its curious fragrance by coaxing from the piano its loveliest songs. From then on it was to me just a question of time when Kapell would be the foremost pianist. Season after season, that time came closer. He played crystalline Mozart, a Bach suite of unforgettable purity of tone. His Brahms rose from the deepest lyricism, yet knew the inimical and the brusque. It poured out in a torrent of fabulous performance last season in the most extraordinary performance I have known of the D Minor Concerto. I called that playing fabulous. The word stands.
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Extractions: RCA Red Seal 68442 (9 CDs) (M) TT: 10 hours + This is a release of enormous interest: "The William Kapell Edition," a 9-CD set of most available recordings by the remarkable American pianist who died so young more than four decades ago. William Kapell, born in New York September 20, 1922, studied with Olga Samaroff, won the 1940 Philadelphia Orchestra Youth Contest while still at Juilliard, and the following year won both the Naumburg and Town Hall Endowment Awards. More honors followed, and in 1942 he played the Khachaturian Concerto with Efrem Kurtz and the New York Philharmonic. This music became identified with him and in 1946 he recorded it with Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony, a best-selling classical 78rpm album, one of his first under an exclusive contract with RCA. This was an enormous loss to the musical world, but at least we can remember him through his recordings. Some were issued years ago on CD, but now we have all of his RCA recordings as well as some from other sources, collected in one set; most have been unavailable for decades, and many are issued for the first time in any format. The set includes the three concertos he recorded for RCA (Beethoven Second, Khachaturian, Rachmaninoff Second), and the same composer's
Extractions: DUTTON CDBP 9701 (B) (ADD) TT: 66:45 Ansermet's Stravinsky is another known factor. The Swiss-born conductor gave world Stravinsky premieres and later would record many of the composer's works with his Suisse Romande Orchestra. These recordings with the LPO have considerable historic significance. They were among the first ffrr (full frequency range recordings) issued by Decca. Petrouchka (identified as a "suite" but in actuality the entire ballet) was recorded in February 1946, Firebird in December of that year. Symphony of Psalms followed a year later. All were engineered by legendary Kenneth Wilkinson. CD notes contain reviews of the time..."this is the most sensational advance in recording we have had yet"...."the engineers have accomplished an outstanding feat, for every detail in this complicated score (
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Extractions: Online Music Review La Folia Home] [Archives by Contributor] [Archives by Date] ... Page] Dan Davis [May 2003.] full-priced boxes; discs 9-13 are new issues freshly transferred by Maggi Payne, one of the best restoration engineers extant. Idomeneo Well-Tempered Clavier by Mieczslaw Horszowski, and continues with a buoyant Beethoven violin / piano sonata from 1953 with the stimulating combination of the elegant Arthur Grumiaux and the fiery young American pianist, William Kapell. The pair strike sparks here; Kapell dazzling at the keyboard, Grumiaux more spirited than in his later studio recording for Philips DG Original Masters DG Decca and Westminster Decca Original Masters series is a six-disc set, Pathetique symphony, in which case you should know that the 1951 live performance from Cairo in this set is remarkably close to it in overall conception and in most details. On the other hand, you may be turned off by the presence of the Franck Symphony here, since his studio version for Decca DG , a two-disc set of Symphonies 1, 3, and 9. The First comes from a 1954 Vienna Philharmonic concert just two days after their studio recording sessions for
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