Orfeo 40th Anniversary - Legendary Pianists

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Label
Orfeo
Release Date
October 9, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 09, 2020
    • UPC
      4011790200712
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ORF-C200071
    • LABEL
      Orfeo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      10
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Géza Anda

      Conductor: Rafael Kubelík

    2. II. Largo

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Géza Anda

      Conductor: Rafael Kubelík

    3. III. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Géza Anda

      Conductor: Rafael Kubelík

    4. I. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Géza Anda

      Conductor: Rafael Kubelík

    5. II. Allegro appassionato

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Géza Anda

      Conductor: Rafael Kubelík

    6. III. Andante

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Géza Anda

      Conductor: Rafael Kubelík

    7. IV. Allegretto grazioso

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Géza Anda

      Conductor: Rafael Kubelík

    8. 15 Variations and a Fugue on an Original Theme in E-Flat Major, Op. 35, "Eroica Variations"

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Bruno-Leonardo Gelber

    9. 6 Easy Variations on an Original Theme in G Major, WoO 77

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Bruno-Leonardo Gelber

    10. 32 Variations in C Minor, WoO 80

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Bruno-Leonardo Gelber

    11. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Wiener Symphoniker

      Performer: Friedrich Gulda

      Conductor: Friedrich Gulda

    12. II. Andante con moto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Wiener Symphoniker

      Performer: Friedrich Gulda

      Conductor: Friedrich Gulda

    13. III. Rondo: Vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Wiener Symphoniker

      Performer: Friedrich Gulda

      Conductor: Friedrich Gulda

    14. I. Allegro affettuoso

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Ensemble: Wiener Symphoniker

      Performer: Friedrich Gulda

      Conductor: Joseph Keilberth

    15. II. Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Ensemble: Wiener Symphoniker

      Performer: Friedrich Gulda

      Conductor: Joseph Keilberth

    16. III. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Ensemble: Wiener Symphoniker

      Performer: Friedrich Gulda

      Conductor: Joseph Keilberth

    17. I. Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen - Im Legendenton - Erstes tempo

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Wilhelm Kempff

    18. II. Mäßig

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Wilhelm Kempff

    19. III. Langsam getragen

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Wilhelm Kempff

    20. I. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Wilhelm Kempff

    21. II. Arietta: Adagio molto semplice e cantabile

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Wilhelm Kempff

    22. Fantasy in C Major, Op. 15, D. 760, "Wandererfantasie"

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Oleg Maisenberg

    23. I. Allegro giusto

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Oleg Maisenberg

    24. II. Andante

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Oleg Maisenberg

    25. III. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Oleg Maisenberg

    26. Allegretto in C Minor, D. 900 (fragment) - Andantino in C Major, D. 348 (fragment)

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Oleg Maisenberg

    27. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    28. II. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    29. III. Allegro (cadenza by J. Brahms)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    30. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    31. II. Siciliano

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    32. III. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    33. I. [Allegro]

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    34. II. Adagio e sempre piano

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    35. III. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    36. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    37. II. Larghetto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    38. III. Allegro ma non tanto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    39. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    40. II. Largo

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    41. III. Presto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    42. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    43. II. Andante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    44. III. Allegro assai

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    45. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    46. II. Andante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    47. III. Allegro assai

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

      Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz

      Conductor: Konstantin Lifschitz

    48. I. Allegro maestoso

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: NDR Sinfonieorchester

      Performer: Carl Seemann

      Conductor: Wilfried Boettcher

    49. II. Andante

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: NDR Sinfonieorchester

      Performer: Carl Seemann

      Conductor: Wilfried Boettcher

    50. III. Allegretto

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: NDR Sinfonieorchester

      Performer: Carl Seemann

      Conductor: Wilfried Boettcher

    51. I. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: NDR Sinfonieorchester

      Performer: Carl Seemann

      Conductor: Leopold Hager

    52. II. Andantino

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: NDR Sinfonieorchester

      Performer: Carl Seemann

      Conductor: Leopold Hager

    53. III. Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: NDR Sinfonieorchester

      Performer: Carl Seemann

      Conductor: Leopold Hager

    54. I. Allegro maestoso

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    55. II. Andante espressivo

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    56. III. Scherzo: Allegro energico

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    57. IV. Intermezzo (Ruckblick): Andante molto

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    58. V. Finale: Allegro moderato ma rubato

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    59. No. 1. Intermezzo in B Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    60. No. 2. Intermezzo in E Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    61. No. 3. Intermezzo in C Major

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    62. No. 4. Rhapsody in E-Flat Major

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    63. I. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Rudolf Serkin

      Conductor: Rafael Kubelík

    64. II. Largo

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Rudolf Serkin

      Conductor: Rafael Kubelík

    65. III. Rondo: Allegro scherzando

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Rudolf Serkin

      Conductor: Rafael Kubelík

    66. I. Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Rudolf Serkin

      Conductor: Rafael Kubelík

    67. II. Adagio un poco moto -

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Rudolf Serkin

      Conductor: Rafael Kubelík

    68. III. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Rudolf Serkin

      Conductor: Rafael Kubelík


When the ORFEO label was established in Munich 40 years ago, few would have predicted that the record company would develop into a firmly established player in the classical music market. One of the label’s priorities in the early years was vocal music, with opera rarities top of the list and, since the mid 1980s, the re-use of historic tape recordings. Big names featured on the label’s own productions, while ORFEO also developed into a talent factory for discovering and nurturing young artists. This Legendary Pianists 10-disc boxed set continues the series marking ORFEO’s 40th anniversary and features nine pianists in historical and modern recordings dating from the 1950s to the 2000s.

REVIEW:

This edition should be quite intriguing to collectors who surely will find a set of names quite different from what they might have chosen. It does not claim to be definitive; a collection, not the collection. There are ten CDs in the box featuring nine artists recorded live or recorded for broadcast, giving a sense of hearing an actual performance that contributes a heightened sense of you-are-there. Repertoire consists of mainly concertos from Bach to Brahms, via Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann. Also, a handful of variations, etc. This is a most attractive collection of pure pleasure.

-- The Whole Note

But for Kempff at his most unbridled you need to hear 1956 WDR Cologne radio recordings of Beethoven’s Op 111 and Schumann’s Fantasie, where bass chords are augmented and the sense of uplift is so acute that you could as well be listening to Schnabel, Cortot, or Fischer live. The disc is one of 10 in Orfeo’s Legendary Pianists, which opens with the player Furtwängler described as ‘the troubadour of the piano’, Géza Anda, who fits that description like a glove in Beethoven’s First Concerto recorded in Munich under Rafael Kubelík, whereas Brahms’s Second Concerto with the same artists fans the flames with consistent intensity, the second movement especially. In the same collection, Gulda plays concertos by Beethoven and Schumann, a rather brittle-sounding Oleg Maisenberg is compelling in Schubert (including the Wanderer Fantasy), Konstantin Lifschitz brings a Gouldian tautness to the seven Bach keyboard concertos (greatly extending the cadenza in BWV1052’s finale), Carl Seemann is characteristically considered in Mozart’s Concertos K449 and 503, Gerhard Oppitz plays Brahms’s Third Sonata (the second movement being significantly broader than on his RCA recording) and we’re given the Third and Fifth Beethoven Concertos from the cycle that Rudolf Serkin and Kubelík recorded in 1977, a much-underrated set.

-- Gramophone