Strictly On The Record: Summer Suggestions, 2001 By Igor Kipnis Strictly On The Record Summer Suggestions, 2001 igor kipnis I must recommend a recentlyreissued set of recordings by the late British pianist, Solomon (1902 http://www.stereotimes.com/Old/Kipnis_Summer_Suggestions.htm
Extractions: Igor Kipnis June 2001 Thinking of July 4th, the most obvious summer blockbuster among the usual plethora of classical releases over the last few months is an all-Tchaikovsky, Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops Orchestra compilation that includes the ubiquitous 1812 Overture Capriccio Italien Marche Slav , Festival Coronation March, and orchestral excerpts from Eugen Onegin and Mazeppa (Telarc CD-80541). Everything is very well performed, if not perhaps with the ultimate in excitement and vitality. The Much as I enjoyed the Tchaikovsky viscerally in the normal CD version, I would opt as an orchestral standout for a marvelously exciting Stravinsky Fire Bird Firebird is sensational, both as a wonderfully colorful and detailed exposition of this score but also has an example of CD sonics at their best, and this time the bass department is not slighted. Try the "Katchei’s Infernal Dance" at track 20. That will set your speakers to working. The CD is definitely of demonstration quality. Chandos in England has released the popular London Symphony The Banks of Green Willow The Planets Rite of Spring Le Sacre , which was used for rehearsing the original ballet back in 1913. This had been recorded before, notably by Michael Tilson Thomas and Ralph Grierson for Angel, as well as others, but the present recording by the Turkish pianist, Fazil Say (pronounced sigh), in effect "orchestrates" the work for the piano, both normal and prepared (creating unusual sounds), using a computer-controlled Bösendorfer, multi-tracking, superimposition, and synchronization (Teldec 81041). The result has extraordinary clarity, rather less for the sake of color than for the explicating the different difficult rhythms and intricate textures. The CD, incidentally, also doubles as a CD-ROM (Mac/PC) with Say playing Stravinsky, Gershwin, and Bach for some five minutes of ostentatiously artsy video. I reviewed his first disc of Mozart for
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Extractions: Parnassus Classical Compact Discs and Records Click Disc Image to see Complete Contents of PACD96030 Igor Kipnis and Karen Kushner - Piano Four Hands Parnassus is proud to offer the debut recording of the Igor Kipnis-Karen Kushner duo, in an extended program of music for piano four hands recorded at concerts and studio broadcasts. Since his debut in 1959, Igor Kipnis has become one of the world's best-known harpsichordists, with more than fifty solo recordings in his discography. He has also performed and recorded on the antique fortepiano. Readers of the many magazines for which he has written will also know of his long-standing interest in romantic piano literature and its great performers. In 1995, Kipnis heard Karen Kushner's acclaimed recordings of the Chopin Mazurkas, released by Connoisseur Society. Shortly afterward the two met and expressed their admiration for each others' playing. They made their debut as a performing Duo later that year, and have since performed in in more than a dozen states and in Europe and South America. The recordings on the debut CD, entitled "Four Hands," derive from these performances. The rare performance ofBrahms's
StereoTimes -- Strictly On The Record By Igor Kipnis igor kipnis. Perhaps THE pianist of the day, at least the one who has been gettingthe most attention, is the legendary Argentineanborn Martha Argerich, now http://www.stereotimes.com/mr122900.shtm
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MMD Archives: Passing Of Igor Kipnis We would like to express our deep sadness on notification of the passing ofthe celebrated harpsichordist/duopianist/critic/educator, igor kipnis. http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/Digests/200201/2002.01.26.02.html
Extractions: http://people.mags.net/ As one who followed his career with close attention over a period of the last forty years, I will add that he is now, and will continue to be, sorely missed. He was always optimistic, outgoing, vastly knowledgeable and willing, always to share with others his wide-ranging interests. Ave atque vale, Maestro. Albert M. Petrak, founder The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation
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Classical Music - Andante - Igor Kipnis Dead At 71 from his mother s father, Heniot Lévy, a pianist, composer and State Opera at thetime of igor s birth, was Night on Bald Mountain, acquired when kipnis was 14 http://www.andante.com/magazine/article.cfm?id=15778&highlight=1&timeline=1&high
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Extractions: Ronald Moir a conversation with Igor Kipnis Since his debut in 1959, Igor Kipnis has had a very active career across North and South America, Europe (East and West) Israel and Australia. Prolific in the recording field, be has 72 albums to his credit, 54 of which are solo. Among the honors be has received are 6 "Grammy' Nominations, 3 "Record of the Year" Awards from Stereo Review, the 1969 Deutsche Scballplatten Prize, and the 1988 Gold Star Award from the Italian periodical Musica. Keyboard Magazine named him "Best HarPsicbordist" in 1978, 1979, and 1980 and "Best Classical Keyboardist" in 1982 and 1986. Mr. Kipnis had just returned from an extended tour of California, Oregon, Texas and New England when we spoke in December 1991. We discussed the perils of touring, audience development, and his latest recordings on the Chesky label, a New York firm. One is an all Vivaldi set which includes the Four Seasons, a flute concerto, and his own reconstruction of a harpsichord concerto. These are performed by Members of the Connecticut Early Music Festival with Igor Kipnis directing from the keyboard, and will be released later this year. Also, just released by Chesky (June '92) is a recording of 15 Scarlatti Sonatas made using 5 different Hubbard + Broeknian harpsichords. Hazards of Touring My recent concert at Nashua, N.H. was one of my more -horrendous experiences. I was told the concert org-anizers had settled on the Campus Centre of the college as a venue instead of the smaller library. This was probably a better choice as libraries are acoustically not all that great. When I got there I found the campus centre was in fact the cafeteria!!
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Extractions: Lyn Bronson When I was a student at Yale University's School of Music in the 1950s, I once attended a faculty party where harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick reminisced about his errant youth as a pianist before he fell in love with the harpsichord and its literature - it was a time during which he said that he had a great admiration for the flashy virtuoso music of Liszt. We dared him to play something by Liszt, and he finally obliged by going to the piano and playing the Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody. At first he had us in stitches with his parody of the exaggerated excesses of the virtuoso pianist, but by the slow middle section the playing had become totally serious, and the repeated octave windup of the finale was a knockout. Thus I was not surprised to learn a few years ago that Igor Kipnis, after over forty years as one of the preeminent harpsichordists of our time, had finally come out of the closet and revealed his inner soul as one totally dedicated to and extremely knowledgeable about the great body of piano literature of the nineteenth century, and more importantly, the great legacy of recorded performances of all the distinguished pianists of recent history.
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Extractions: Recent Additions Analog Sources Digital Sources Amplification ... Music in the Round Vote Previous Votes Soapbox Previous Soaps AV Links Previous News Master Index Contact Us 2004 Buyer's Guide Recordings Rec Comps Cool Stuff Back Issues AV Buyer's Guide AV Marketplace Digital Stereophle Jan Feb Mar April ... AV Marketplace Igor Kipnis, December, 1992 ECM New Series 1469/70 (437 189-2, 2 CDs only). Peter Laenger, eng.; Manfred Eicher, prod. DDD. TT: 2:15:21 Well-Tempered Clavier . In spite of its obvious contrapuntal basis, it also contains all the usual Shostakovian earmarks: the sardonic, the playful, the moody and grim, the intensely introverted, and the virtuosically outgoing. rubato , more individualism in her tempo fluctuations, a greater shaping of melodic lines, and a tendency to emphasize fugal subjects while subjugating subsidiary parts. Her Bach playing is much the same. Igor Kipnis var clickURL="http://www.stereophile.com/recordingofthemonth/1292rotm/index.html";
Extractions: Recent Additions Analog Sources Digital Sources Amplification ... Music in the Round Vote Previous Votes Soapbox Previous Soaps AV Links Previous News Master Index Contact Us 2004 Buyer's Guide Recordings Rec Comps Cool Stuff Back Issues AV Buyer's Guide AV Marketplace Digital Stereophle Jan Feb Mar April ... AV Marketplace Recording of May 1994: Gershwin: Original Works and Transcriptions for Solo Piano Igor Kipnis, May, 1994 Rhapsody in Blue (solo piano version by Gershwin); 3 Preludes; "Sleepless Night"; Impromptu in 2 Keys; Song Transcriptions: "Sweet and Low-Down," "Maybe," "Clap Yo' hands," "So am I," "Looking for a Boy," "Someone to Watch Over Me," "That Certain Feeling"; Second Rhapsody (solo piano version by David Buechner) Connoisseur Society CD 4191 (CD only). Patricia A. Duciaume, eng.; E. Alan Silver, prod. D?D. TT: 59:26 Petrouchka Rhapsody in Blue in a solo piano treatment seems a less than ideal way of savoring Gershwin's ubiquitous piece, the colorful orchestral effects having been absorbed into the keyboard part, let me hasten to assure you that I have never heard a more effective or stylish treatment than this one here. This may not be a first recording of the solo version of the work (Norman Krieger recorded it very well just a few years ago on Stradivari Classics, and quite a few others are available). But the Second Rhapsody, in Buechner's own transcription, is, in fact, claimed as a first. The piece, despite the effects of numerous champions, has never achieved the popularity of its predecessor, and this in spite of Gershwin's own enthusiasm for it. Buechner's advocacy has the merit of considerable panache, though, personally, and on entirely musical grounds, I have never been roused to great enthusiasm for the piece.
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Extractions: TOP-LINK UP-LINK ADD URL SEARCH ... E-MAIL PIANISTS LINKS Arbiter's Museum of Historic Pianists - Arbiter Records Home Page, over 60 very short biographies by Allan Evans. Argerich, Martha b. 1941. - Excerpts from a 1979 interview with Dean Elder; in-print discography; reviews. Ashkenazy, Vladimir 1937- - Some facts, a 1995 interview, discography and reviews from Classic CD magazine page. Astriab, Lou - provides information on the American pianist. Atamian, Dickran - pianist. Ax, Emanuel Batagov, Anton 1965- - Includes biography, gallery and texts by the pianist. Bauer, Harold 1873-1951. - Bauer Collection in the Music Division of the Library of Congress includes biography, etc. Baxtresser, Margaret - explores the enchanting, nature-filled world of Claude Debussy and the Impressionist Painters. Bekhterev, Boris - provides information on the Russian-born pianist. Berman, Bart - Israeli concert pianist specializing in Schubert and contemporary music performance. Berman, Boris - Pianist of international stature and teacher at Yale University School of Music. Bernstein, Leonard 1918-1990
