SIGNED ALFRED BRENDEL LP Schubert Sonata In D, Op.53 D.850 / 16 German Dances
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Schubert:
Sonata In D, Op.53 D.850 /
16 German Dances, Op.33 D.783
- SIGNED BY ALFRED BRENDEL -
Title: Schubert / Alfred Brendel ?– Sonata In D, Op.53 D.850 / 16 German Dances, Op.33 D.783
Label: Philips ?– 6500 763
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1974
Genre: Classical
Tracklist:
Sonata In D Major, Op. 53, D. 850 A1 I. Allegro Vivace 8:55 A2 II. Con Moto 11:16 B1 III. Scherzo (Allegro Vivace) 8:42 B2 IV. Rondo (Allegro Moderato) 9:03 — B3 16 German Dances, Op. 33, D. 783 10:40 Credits Composed By – Franz Schubert Liner Notes – Philip Radcliffe Photography By – Michael Evans (10) Piano – Alfred Brendel
Condition: Record appears in excellent condition, possibly unplayed (I do not have a working player to test); jacket is in very good overall condition with no issues.
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Alfred Brendel KBE (born 5 January 1931) is an Austrian pianist, poet and author. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time.
Brendel was born in Wiesenberg (now Lou?ná nad Desnou, Czech Republic) to a non-musical family. They moved to Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), when Brendel was six, and later to Graz, Austria. Towards the end of World War II, the 14-year old Brendel was sent back to Yugoslavia to dig trenches. Brendel began piano lessons when he was six with Sofija Deželi?, and later studied piano with Ludovica von Kaan at the Graz Conservatory and composition with Artur Michel.
After the war, Brendel composed music, as well as continuing to play the piano, to write and to paint. However, he never had more formal piano lessons and, although he attended master classes with Edwin Fischer and Eduard Steuermann, he was largely self-taught after the age of six.
Brendel gave his first public recital in Graz at the age of 17. He called it "The Fugue in Piano Literature", and as well as fugal works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms and Franz Liszt, it included a sonata of Brendel's own composition. However, he gave up composing shortly after this to concentrate on the piano. In 1949 he won a prize in the Ferruccio Busoni Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy and moved to Vienna the following year.
At the age of 21, in 1952, he made his first record, Franz Liszt's Weihnachtsbaum (that work's world premiere recording). His first concerto recording, Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 5 had happened the year before. He went on to make a string of other records, including three complete sets of the Ludwig van Beethoven piano sonatas (one on Vox Records and two on Philips Records). He was the first performer to record the complete solo piano works of Beethoven. He has also recorded works by Liszt, Brahms (including Brahms' concertos), Robert Schumann and particularly Franz Schubert. An important collection of Alfred Brendel is the complete Mozart piano concertos recorded with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which is included in the Philips 180 CD complete Mozart Edition.
Brendel recorded extensively for the Vox label, providing them his first of three sets of the complete Beethoven sonatas. His breakthrough came after a recital of Beethoven at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the day after which three major record labels called his agent. Around this time he moved to Hampstead, London, where he still resides. Since the 1970s, Brendel has recorded for Philips Classics Records. One of the most successful pianists internationally, he completed many tours in Europe, the United States, South America, Japan and Australia. He had a particularly close association with the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, but played regularly with all major orchestras in the US and elsewhere. Brendel has performed many cycles of the Beethoven Sonatas and Concertos, and was one of the few pianists who, in later years, could continue to fill large halls.
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