Alexis Weissenberg plays Ravel, Schumann & Mussorgsky

This recital clearly makes an impression on the Salzburg Festival audience, but the playing is at times aggressive. Wonderful things mixed with bizarre eccentricities. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 22nd Oct 2012
Catalogue No: C869122B
Label: Orfeo
Series: Orfeo d'Or, Salzburger Festspieldokumente
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Work length22:33

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Alexis Weissenberg (piano)
Recorded: 7 August 1972
Recording Venue: Live recording

Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: No. 1, Prélude (Live)

Track length3:01

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Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: No. 2, Fugue (Live)

Track length2:14

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Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: No. 3, Forlane (Live)

Track length5:08

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Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: No. 4, Rigaudon (Live)

Track length3:11

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Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: No. 5, Menuet (Live)

Track length4:24

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Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: No. 6, Toccata (Live)

Track length4:35

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Schumann: Fantasie in C major, Op. 17

Work length28:12

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Alexis Weissenberg (piano)
Recorded: 7 August 1972
Recording Venue: Live recording

Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17: I. Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen - Im Legendenton - Erstes tempo (Live)

Track length10:56

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Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17: II. Mäßig (Live)

Track length6:52

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Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17: III. Langsam getragen (Live)

Track length10:24

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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Work length29:08

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Alexis Weissenberg (piano)
Recorded: 7 August 1972
Recording Venue: Live recording

Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade I - I. Gnomus (Live)

Track length3:51

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Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade II - II. The Old Castle (Live)

Track length4:34

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Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade III - III. Tuileries (Live)

Track length1:12

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Pictures at an Exhibition: IV. Bydło - Promenade (Live)

Track length3:09

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Pictures at an Exhibition: V. Ballet of the Chickens in Their Shells (Live)

Track length1:01

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Pictures at an Exhibition: VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle (Live)

Track length3:02

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Pictures at an Exhibition: VII. The Market-Place at Limoges (Live)

Track length1:31

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Pictures at an Exhibition: VIII. Catacombae (Sepulcrum Romanum) [Live]

Track length2:54

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Pictures at an Exhibition: IX. The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga) [Live]

Track length2:51

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Pictures at an Exhibition: X. The Great Gate at Kiev (Live)

Track length5:03

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Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post.

Work length4:14

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Alexis Weissenberg (piano)

Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor, Op. Posth, B. 49 (Live)

Track length4:14

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Liszt: Valse-Impromptu, S.213

Work length5:04

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Alexis Weissenberg (piano)

Valse-impromptu, S. 213 (Live)

Track length5:04

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Excerpt, Brahms: Rhapsodies (2), Op. 79

Work length5:18

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Alexis Weissenberg (piano)

2 Rhapsodies, Op. 79: No. 2 in G Minor (Live)

Track length5:18

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Moszkowski: Etude in A flat major, Op. 72 No. 11

Work length2:01

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Alexis Weissenberg (piano)

15 Études de virtuosité, Op. 72 "Per aspera": No. 6 in F Major (Live)

Track length2:01

$1.00

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Excerpt, Bach, J S: Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'

Work length4:14

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Alexis Weissenberg (piano)

Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: X. Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Arr. for Piano) [Live]

Track length4:14

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The pianist Alexis Weissenberg also died in 2012. He made his breakthrough in Salzburg during the Karajan era and is now represented in the Salzburg FESTIVAL DOCUMENTS with his solo recital of 1972. His evening began with Ravel’s 'Tombeau de Couperin', played transparently and with a highly flexible touch. Even the technically trickiest passages of Schumann’s C-major 'Fantasy' were embedded organically and convincingly into the musical flow of the work.

Mussorgsky’s 'Pictures at an Exhibition' could hardly be played more effectively or with more colour than in Weissenberg’s interpretation. This work ended the 'official' part of his recital, though there followed many surprising encores, which can all be heard on these two CDs (for the price of one) and thus round off this memento of the artist.

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Christmas 2012

This recital clearly makes an impression on the Salzburg Festival audience, but the playing is at times aggressive. Wonderful things mixed with bizarre eccentricities.

February 2013

Here...is Alexis Weissenberg in all his alternating brilliance and perversity. His declaration that music-making should be contemporary, sweeping away the cobwebs of tradition, is reflected in performances of a bewildering inconsistency, a mix of the hard-bitten and interior.

Alexis Weissenberg plays Ravel, Schumann & Mussorgsky

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