Tales from Vienna

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Here it is Beethoven that really turns up trumps- whimsical slivers of imagination that make a swift impression without time for energy to flag — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013 More…

Release Date: 30th Sep 2013
Catalogue No: LDV12
Label: La Dolce Volta
Length: 74 minutes

Schubert: Sonate No. 18 en Sol majeur, D. 894 "Fantaisie"

Work length18:34

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Menahem Pressler

Sonata No. 18 in G Major, D. 894, Op. 78: I. Molto moderato e cantabile

Track length18:34

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Excerpt, Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, D894

Work length9:29

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Menahem Pressler

II. Andante

Track length9:29

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Schubert: Sonate No. 18 en Sol majeur, D. 894 "Fantaisie"

Work length5:36

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Menahem Pressler

Sonata No. 18 in G Major, Op. 78 D. 894: III. Menuetto (Allegretto moderato) - Trio

Track length5:36

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Excerpt, Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, D894

Work length10:45

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Menahem Pressler

IV. Allegretto

Track length10:45

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Mozart: Rondo en La Mineur, K. 511 (Andante): Rondo en la mineur, K. 511, Andante

Work length10:24

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Menahem Pressler

Excerpt, Beethoven: Bagatelles (6), Op. 126

Work length3:19

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Menahem Pressler

I. Andante con moto

Track length3:19

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Excerpt, Beethoven: Bagatelles (6), Op. 126

Work length3:26

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Menahem Pressler

Bagatelles, Op. 126: II. Allegro

Track length3:26

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Excerpt, Beethoven: Bagatelles (6), Op. 126

Work length9:16

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Menahem Pressler

III. Andante

Track length2:23

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IV. Presto

Track length4:29

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V. Quasi allegretto

Track length2:24

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Excerpt, Beethoven: Bagatelles (6), Op. 126

Work length3:59

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Menahem Pressler

Bagatelles, Op. 126: VI. Presto - Andante amabile e con moto - Tempo I

Track length3:59

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These intersecting tales from Vienna, so close in time and space, could only have been born on the banks of a great river that diffused the new blood of Europe. Vienna was ablaze with brilliance in 1800. Some have seen it as the dress rehearsal of the century to come.

Born in Magdeburg on 16 December 1923, Menahem Pressler fled Nazi Germany in 1938. It was in Israel, where he was raised, that he received most of his training, with the pianists Eliahu Rudiakov and Leo Kestenberg, a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni, followed by lessons with Eduard Steuermann, also a Busoni disciple, in the United States. His musical learning and his profound knowledge of the piano and chamber music have earned him an undisputed reputation.

Menahem Pressler’s international fame began to develop after he won first prize at the Debussy Piano Competition in San Francisco in 1946, immediately followed by his American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Eugene Ormandy. In 1955, the Berkshire Music Festival witnessed the debut of the Beaux Arts Trio, which was to become a legendary group, acclaimed all over the world for 53 years.

He gives masterclasses in Germany, France, Canada, Argentina, and Brazil, and is a jury member at the Santander, Van Cliburn, and Queen Elisabeth competitions. In 1998 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Gramophone magazine and an Ehrenurkunde award from German music critics to mark 40 years spent in the service of music. In May 2000 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Recently, the French government decorated him with the rank of Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et Lettres, while the German government awarded him the Deutsches Bundesverdienstkreuz in recognition of his entire career and conferred German citizenship on him in September 2012.

Reviews

Christmas Issue 2013

Here it is Beethoven that really turns up trumps- whimsical slivers of imagination that make a swift impression without time for energy to flag

November 2013

a lifetime's engagement with these composers means that he has an innate understanding of how the music 'goes' and he still pays with a twinkle in his eye...You sense Pressler's love for this Schubert sonata in every bar, and there's abundant warmth to his playing.

December 2013

Pressler wears his 90 years as if he were 60. I would say the playing too was of a younger man, were it not for the air of calm that permeates the tempos… These are not characteristics of the young, but of someone who has loved music long and well…Sipping the cup so graciously offered by Pressler is tasting joy, gratitude and above all partaking of wisdom.

20th October 2013

Pressler still teaches, and at the age of 89 recently resumed his solo career...He still has so much to offer, as this disc richly demonstrates...The Mozart Rondo in A minor, dark with chromaticism and difficulty also hints at joy, while the Beethoven Bagatelles Op 126 sparkle with bold, eccentric adventure and wisdom.

Tales from Vienna

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