Mozart, J. Williams et al.: Portrait of a Concertmaster / Ferenc Kiss
Bella Musica
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$20.99Jul 15, 2022
Ferenc Kiss was born in Budapest in 1943.He began to play the violin and piano at the age of 5, first learning with his father who was concert master of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra, then at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1959, and also inDüsseldorf with Sándor Végh. He made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 20, and from 1965 he played throughout Europe, Mexico and Japan, as well as making recordings for numerous Radio and TV Stations all over the world. From 1963 he became concertmaster of the Philharmonia Hungarica, then later at Opera Saarbrücken 1968-74, München Symphonie Orchestra 1974-79, and from1979 at the German State Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been a guest concertmaster and soloist for many years with orchestras such as the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Köln Radio Orchestra, Opera Nürnberg, Basque National Orchestra (San Sebastian), Orchestra Sinfonica di Bolzano e Trento, Symphony Orchestra Xalapa (Mexico) and Pro Arte Orchestra München. This is his first Portrait album.
Vivaldi: Die Vier Jahreszeiten - Bach: Tripelkonzert in A Minor, BWV 1044 / Kiss, Redel
Bella Musica
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$20.99Feb 01, 2019
The present release pays tribute to Kurt Redel. Redel studied conducting and flute at the Breslau Conservatory. In 1938, when he was still quite young, he received a professorship for flute at the Salzburg Mozarteum. In 1941 he joined the Bavarian State Orchestra in munich as solo flautist. From 1946 to 1956 he was professor of flute at the Hochschule fur Musik Detmold. In 1952 Redel founded the Kammerorchester Pro Arte Munchen in Munich, with which he gave numerous concerts worldwide and made award-winning recordings, especially with works by Bach, Telemann, Haydn, and Mozart. For twenty years he directed the Easter Festival of Lourdes in France, which he also founded. He received numerous awards, including the Grand Prix du Disque, the Prix Orphee of the Paris Opera, and the German Federal Merit Class Prize.
Ferenc Kiss was born in Budapest in 1943. He studied first with his father, a concertmaster of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra, then at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest before finishing his studies with Sandor Vegh in Dusseldorf. His many appearances in concert venues all over the world as well as the variety of albums he has produced further attest to his successful career as an acclaimed soloist. On this release, he presents violin concertos by Fritz Leitermeyer and Dieter Acker. Fritz Leitermeyer’s Concerto for Violin and 21 Wind Instruments had its first performance in January 1964 with the concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic, Walter Weller, performing the solo part. The scoring is unusual, but the result is dazzling. Dieter Acker composed over 100 works during his life, including two solo concertos for violin, the first of which is included here. H. Leuchtmann wrote of Acker: “Never committed to a specific avant-garde style, Acker developed a very unique style of composition, which is conceived for clarity and comprehensibility, without getting into popular idioms… intensity touches and transmits itself directly.”
This Varied Piano Recital Release from the Bella Musica Label of Keyboard Works Stretching Across Three Centuries and Spotlighting Six Composers Highlights the Playing of the Doyen of German Pianists, Prof. Manfred Reuthe. A Berliner of Impeccable Degree, He Has Taught for Over 40 Years in Addition to Giving Concerts and Recitals All Over the World, Yet His Playing Remains Fresh and Vigorous Still. His Recital Programs Often Feature the Virtuosic Works of the 19th C. Romantic Piano Tradition, Including Those By the Austro-German Romantics and the French Impressionists.
This Bella Musica release of two historical recordings captured nearly a quarter-century apart features the conductor Carl August Bünte (b. 1925), a pupil of Sergiu Celibidache who for 24 years led the Berlin Symphony, the Kansai Philharmonic, one of the two major orchestras resident in Osaka, Japan, pianist Hiroko Miyamoto and the aforementioned Berlin Symphony in performances of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in c, op. 18 and Schumann’s Symphony No. 4 in d, op. 120. + Ms. Miyamoto is currently a professor at the Osaka University of Education.
• Historic concert recordings of the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra from 1959 and 1961, led by its first and chief conductor for 24 years, Carl A. Bünte.
• Carl A. Bünte was a pupil of the mercurial Sergiu Celibidache and has led a distinguished international career.
• These two symphonies, both their composer's second, are considerably less volatile, but no less rousing fare, than there more famous later symphonies.
• French composer Erik Satie composed some of the most mystifyingly beautiful music in the piano literature, much of which is in constant demand for live performance and recordings.
• Pianist Chisako Okano studied piano in her native Japan and then Germany, and leads a productive concertizing career.
• Historic concert recordings of the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra from 1959, led by its first and chief conductor for 24 years, Carl A. Bünte.
• Carl A. Bünte was a pupil of the mercurial Sergiu Celibidache and has led a distinguished international career.
• Schubert composed his last and most majestic work in the year of his death, 1828, but it wasn't until a decade later that the work saw its first performance.
