US TARIFFS UPDATE | August 2025 | No impact expected on your Presto orders | Read full details
Rudolf Serkin plays Schubert
Rudolf Serkin (piano)
Rudolf Serkin plays Schubert
Rudolf Serkin (piano)
Purchase product
They are grand, searching performances, but at times overemphatic and disconcertingly percussive.
About
Pianist Rudolf Serkin is often recalled as one of the 20th century’s most commanding performers of Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. But he was always a masterful Schubertian as well. After the war, he became American Columbia’s premier pianist in the Classic-Romantic repertoire. This 5-CD box gathers his recordings of the last two Schubert Sonatas – two different ones of the great B flat, D 960: one from 1975 and a live 1977 performance from Carnegie Hall – as well as the Impromptus, Moments musicaux, the “Trout” Quintet (from the Marlboro Festival with “an enthusiastic group that rises to the work’s challenges and Serkin’s inspired promptings” – AllMusic.com) & the exquisite late chamber songs “Auf dem Strom” and “Der Hirt auf dem Felsen”, in which he is joined by soprano Benita Valente, horn Myron Bloom and clarinet Harold Wright.
Contents and tracklist
- Rudolf Serkin (piano), Jaime Laredo (violin), Julius Levine (bass), Philipp Naegele (viola), Leslie Parnas (cello)
- Rudolf Serkin (piano), Benita Valente (soprano), Myron Bloom (french horn)
- Rudolf Serkin (piano), Benita Valente (soprano), Harold Wright (clarinet)
- Rudolf Serkin (piano), Adolf Busch (violin), Hermann Busch (cello)
Awards and reviews
2nd August 2015
They are grand, searching performances, but at times overemphatic and disconcertingly percussive.