Rudolf Serkin

These two gentlemen really had a good thing going on when they recorded this album. Take an evening, put it on, turn down the lights, sit down and hear them play wonderfully, enjoying themselves as they play for us. It is a very good introduction ot the cello sonata of Brahms, specially if you do not know them previously.

Johannes Brahms - Cello Sonatas (Rostropovich, Rudolf Serkin) (1990)
1CD | EAC Rip | FLAC(image) + CUE + LOG | 57:45 | No Scans | 216 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Although very much a composer from the Romantic Period, the music of Brahms tended to be very strict in term of its observence of Classical form. The first movement of this Cello Sonata illustrates this with its beautifully constructed sonata form. Here is the Full Score of this work, plus the individual parts for Cello and Piano.

Trio Serkin - Beethoven / Brahms: Trios
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 247 MB | Full Artwork: 55 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: CBS Masterworks # MPK 46447 | Country/Year: Europe 1990, 1969
Genre: Classical, Historical Recording | Style: Viennese School, Romantic, Piano Trios

Rudolf Serkin emerged from the environment of post-World War I Austria to become one of the most profound and challenging pianists of the century. (…) Rudolf Serkin's discography is impressive, spanning most of the general repertory from Bach to the early/mid-twentieth century, and including such relative novelties as the F minor Concerto of Max Reger, a composer Serkin had an abiding affinity for. His work at the Curtis Institute, and, during the summers, at the Marlboro Festival, has made him one of the most influential American teachers of the post-World War II era.

Music Festival created by Rudolf Serkin
The Marlboro Festival: Since its founding in 1951, Marlboro has transformed the world of chamber music and played a pivotal role in developing generations of new musical leaders. Marlboro was created by eminent pianist Rudolf Serkin - its Artistic Director until his death in 1991 - and co-founders Adolf Busch, Herman Busch and Marcel, Blanche and Luis Moyse….

This 10 CD set offers 11 live recitals given by 10 famous pianists in Switzerland from 1953 to 1993. Each pianist is credited by a single CD. Only Backhaus CD contains fragments from two different programs (1953 and 1960), all the other pianists are represented by a single program.

Beethoven - Piano Sonatas op.109,110,111 - Serkin 1987 (dvd)
Classical | DVD | NTSC 4:3 | covers | DVD´s FULL No compression | 4.25 Gb (DVD5)
Audio: PCM Stereo | 69m | Relesase: 2003 | Label: DG

This concert was performed at the Musicvereinsalle in Vienna and was broadcast throughout Austria and most of Western Europe. Rudi was 85 years old at this time. He died three years later and is buried in Vermont. No one has ever played Beethoven with such passion and beauty in the 20th Century..

The Szell/Cleveland Recordings Complete! In the heyday of George Szell s tenure as its chief conductor, declared Gramophone, The Cleveland Orchestra had few if any peers among the world s great orchestras. Coinciding with the orchestra s centenary in 2018, Sony Classical is excited to announce one of the most ambitious reissue projects of recent times, a comprehensive collection of the Clevelanders recordings made under the baton of their iconic fourth music director. These span the period between 1947 a year after Szell (born in Budapest in 1897) inherited a fine provincial orchestra from Erich Leinsdorf and began transforming it into the elite ensemble it remains to this day and 1969, a year before his sudden death shocked the musical world. Szell's dream was to create an ensemble that combined the Americans purity and beauty of sound and their virtuosity of execution with the European sense of tradition, warmth of expression and sense of style, in the words of his biographer Michael Charry.

Six ans après le premier, un nouveau lot de six concertos, où tarte à la crème du "divin Mozart" ne résiste pas aux assauts de solistes et d'orchestres allumés. Six raretés, par ailleurs.