Louis Kentner plays Brahms, Bartok, Walton, Balakirew, Dvorak, et al

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    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 02, 2021
    • UPC
      881488200850
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PH20085
    • LABEL
      Profil
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      10
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Vivace ma non troppo

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    2. II. Adagio

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    3. III. Allegro molto moderato

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    4. I. Allegro amabile

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    5. II. Andante tranquillo - Vivace

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    6. III. Allegro grazioso (quasi andante)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    7. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    8. II. Adagio

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    9. III. Un poco presto e con sentimento

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    10. IV. Presto agitato

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    11. I. Allegretto

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Louis Kentner

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    12. II. Adagio religioso

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Louis Kentner

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    13. III. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Louis Kentner

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    14. No. 22. Allegretto

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    15. No. 33. Andante sostenuto

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    16. No. 32. Allegro ironico

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    17. No. 42. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    18. I. Allegro tranquillo

      Composer: William Walton

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    19. II. Variazioni: Tema: Andante

      Composer: William Walton

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    20. II. Variazioni: Variation 1: a tempo poco più mosso

      Composer: William Walton

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    21. II. Variazioni: Variation 2: a tempo quasi improvvisando

      Composer: William Walton

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    22. II. Variazioni: Variation 3: Alla marcia molto vivace

      Composer: William Walton

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    23. II. Variazioni: Variation 4: Allegro molto

      Composer: William Walton

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    24. II. Variazioni: Variation 5: Allegretto con moto

      Composer: William Walton

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    25. II. Variazioni: Variation 6: Scherzando

      Composer: William Walton

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    26. II. Variazioni: Variation 7: Andante tranquillo - Coda: Molto vivace - Presto

      Composer: William Walton

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    27. Rêverie in F Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    28. Mazurka No. 6 in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    29. Islamey, Op. 18

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    30. I. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Louis Kentner

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    31. II. Allegro appassionato

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Louis Kentner

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    32. III. Andante

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Louis Kentner

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    33. IV. Allegretto grazioso

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Louis Kentner

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    34. I. Lento maestoso - Allegro vivace, quasi doppio movimento - Tempo I - Allegro molto -

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Performer: Henry Holst, Anthony Pini, Louis Kentner

    35. II. Poco adagio - Vivace non troppo -

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Performer: Henry Holst, Anthony Pini, Louis Kentner

    36. III. Andante - Vivace non troppo - Andante - Allegretto

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Performer: Henry Holst, Anthony Pini, Louis Kentner

    37. IV. Andante moderato (quasi tempo di marcia) - Allegretto scherzando - Meno mosso - Allegro - Moderato

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Performer: Henry Holst, Anthony Pini, Louis Kentner

    38. V. Allegro

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Performer: Henry Holst, Anthony Pini, Louis Kentner

    39. VI. Lento maestoso - Vivace, quasi doppio movimento - Lento - Vivace

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Performer: Henry Holst, Anthony Pini, Louis Kentner

    40. No. 1. Lullaby

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    41. No. 2. Dance of the Ghosts

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    42. No. 3. Pealing of Bells

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    43. No. 4. Terek

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    44. No. 5. Summer Night

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    45. No. 6. Storm

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    46. No. 7. Idyll

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    47. No. 8. Epic Song

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    48. No. 9. Aeolian Harps

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    49. No. 10. Lesghinka

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    50. No. 11. Dance of the Elves

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    51. No. 12. Elegy in Memory of Franz Liszt

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    52. Piano Sonata in B Minor, S178/R21

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    53. Csárdás macabre, S224/R46

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    54. En rêve (Nocturne), S207/R87

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    55. I. Andantino

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    56. II. Mazurka: Moderato

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    57. III. Intermezzo: Larghetto

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    58. IV. Allegro non troppo, ma con fuoco

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    59. 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies, S244/R106: No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    60. No. 2 in F Minor, "La Leggierezza"

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    61. No. 3 in D-Flat Major, "Un Sospiro"

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    62. 12 Études d'exécution transcendante, S139/R2b: No. 5 in B-Flat Major, "Feux follets"

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    63. No. 1. Waldesrauschen (Forest Murmurs)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    64. No. 2. Gnomenreigen (Dance of the Gnomes)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    65. No. 2 in E-Flat Major

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    66. No. 3 in G-Sharp Minor, "La campanella"

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    67. No. 5 in E Major, "La Chasse"

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    68. Années de pèlerinage, 1st year, Switzerland, S160/R10: No. 4. Au bord d'une source (Beside a Spring)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    69. Illustrations du Prophète de Meyerbeer, S414/R223: No. 2. Les patineurs: Scherzo

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    70. Années de pèlerinage, 2nd year, Italy supplement, S162/R10: Venezia e Napoli: No. 1. Gondoliera (Gondolier's Song)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    71. Années de pèlerinage, 2nd year, Italy supplement, S162/R10: Venezia e Napoli: No. 3. Tarantella

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Louis Kentner

    72. Annees de pelerinage, 2nd year, Italy, S161/R10b No. 7. Apres une lecture du Dante, fantasia quasi sonata (arr. C. Lambert for piano and orchestra)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: Sadler Wells Orchestra

      Performer: Louis Kentner

      Conductor: Constant Lambert

    73. I. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    74. II. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    75. III. Andante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    76. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    77. I. Dolce

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    78. II. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    79. III. Andante un poco

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    80. IV. Presto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    81. I. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    82. II. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    83. III. Adagio ma non tanto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    84. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    85. I. Siciliano: Largo

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    86. II. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    87. III. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    88. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    89. I. (Adagio)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    90. II. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    91. III. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    92. IV. Vivace

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    93. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    94. II. Largo

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    95. III. Allegro (Cembalo Solo)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    96. IV. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    97. V. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    98. I. Andante

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Performer: Reginald Kell, Frederick Riddle, Louis Kentner

    99. II. Menuetto

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Performer: Reginald Kell, Frederick Riddle, Louis Kentner

    100. III. Rondo: Allegretto

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Performer: Reginald Kell, Frederick Riddle, Louis Kentner

    101. I. Allegro (cadenza by L. Kentner)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Louis Kentner

      Conductor: Harry Blech

    102. II. Larghetto

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Louis Kentner

      Conductor: Harry Blech

    103. III. Allegretto

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Louis Kentner

      Conductor: Harry Blech

    104. I. Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Jeno Lener, Louis Kentner

    105. II. Adagio molto espressivo

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Jeno Lener, Louis Kentner

    106. III. Allegretto con variazioni

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Jeno Lener, Louis Kentner

    107. I. Modéré

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Gaspar Cassadó, Louis Kentner

    108. II. Pantoum: Assez vif

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Gaspar Cassadó, Louis Kentner

    109. III. Passacaille: Tres large

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Gaspar Cassadó, Louis Kentner

    110. IV. Finale: Anime

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Gaspar Cassadó, Louis Kentner

    111. I. Décidé - Calme - Animé

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Ensemble: Pascal String Quartet

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    112. II. Sicilienne

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Ensemble: Pascal String Quartet

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    113. III. Grave

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Ensemble: Pascal String Quartet

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    114. IV. Finale: Très animé

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Ensemble: Pascal String Quartet

      Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner

    115. Blumenleben (La vie d'une fleur, The Flower's Tale), Op. 30: V. Zefir (Zephyr)

      Composer: Jenö Hubay

      Performer: Erika Morini, Louis Kentner


The present 10-album compilation illustrates Louis Kentner as a successful soloist, chamber musician and concert pianist. A highly gifted musician, Kentner studied from 1911 to 1922 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, attracting early attention in 1916 with a concert performance of Chopin. At the Music Academy, he studied piano with Arnold Székely, chamber music with Leó Weiner and composition with Hans Koessler and Zoltán Kodály. He made his official debut at the age of 15 (1920) and began concert tours of European cities, attracting particular attention for his interpretations of Chopin and Liszt. He won the Liszt Prize in Budapest and the Chopin Prize in Warsaw. In 1933, Kentner gave the first Hungarian performance of Béla Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto (conducted by Otto Klemperer); in London in 1946, the first performance in Europe of the composer’s Third Piano Concerto under Sir Adrian Boult. Bartók’s artistic oeuvre found a special place in Kentner’s heart.

REVIEW:

Profil’s 10-disc Louis Kentner collection offers a diverse, if somewhat skewed, representation of the Hungarian-born/London-based pianist’s large recorded output. Among his sessions with violinist Yehudi Menuhin included here, the 1961 Ravel Trio, 1954 Chausson concerto, the 1956/57 Brahms sonatas, and 1950 Walton sonata represent their collaboration at its equitable best. However, two entire CDs given over to their 1951 Bach sonatas capture Menuhin on raspy and intonationally tenuous form, notwithstanding Kentner’s sensitive contributions. On the other hand, Kentner’s Dvorák “Dumky” Trio with violinist Henry Holst and cellist Anothony Pini was the 78 era’s point of reference.

I like the genial interaction between Kentner, clarinetist Reginald Kell, and violist Frederick Riddle in Mozart’s wonderful “Kegelstatt” Trio, while the pianist’s intense and angular partnership with violinist Jeno Lener in Beethoven’s A major Op. 30 No. 1 sonata makes the music sound positively contemporary. Kentner’s otherwise run-of-the-mill 1959 Mozart C minor K. 491 concerto stands out for the pianist’s own harmonically wild first-movement cadenza. The 1958 Brahms B-flat concerto with Adrian Boult is riddled with slapdash articulation and glaring wrong notes from the soloist, compounded by slack ensemble elsewhere (the slow movement’s misaligned clarinet/piano in measures 59 and 61).

The day after presenting its European premiere, Kentner and Boult played Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in a BBC studio broadcast, first issued on CD by Pearl. Aside from the pianist’s momentary stumble in the final bars, Kentner offers a direct and clear reading of the piano part. Kentner’s 1930s and ’40s Liszt recordings generally make up in proficiency for what they lack in inspiration. For example, in La Leggierezza, Kentner almost always slows down before a climax, and generally keeps the left hand parked in neutral. The E-flat Paganini Etude’s descending octaves sound expertly rehearsed rather than demonic in the way of the great Horowitz and Arrau shellac versions. He brings brooding drama to the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2’s opening section, but the “friska” doesn’t match the insouciance of Friedman or Moiseiwitsch.

While Kentner’s 1948 Liszt Sonata misses the fantasy and volatility of Cortot or Barerre, its clarity and classicism warrant respect. The same applies to Balakirev’s Islamey. In his pioneering Balakirev Sonata and the first of his two recorded Liapunov Transcendental Etudes cycles, Kentner’s tone opens up as his effortless fingers fuse bravura and poetry. Kentner is also on top form in Constant Lambert’s curious arrangement of Liszt’s Dante Sonata for piano and orchestra.

To sum up, Profil’s Kentner box offers undeniable attractions, not to mention its modest cost. But why waste two discs on Menuhin’s lousy Bach, when Kentner’s Chopin Scherzi and Ballades, 1963 Beethoven Hammerklavier, and 1963 EMI Liszt Années de Pèlerinage excerpts have yet to be reissued?

– ClassicsToday.com (Jed Distler)