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Shura Cherkassky – Live: Schubert – Chopin vol. 1 (1991)

Posted By: d'Avignon
Shura Cherkassky – Live: Schubert – Chopin vol. 1 (1991)

Shura Cherkassky – Live: Schubert – Chopin vol. 1 (1991)
Classical/Romantic | FLAC lossless | cuesheets+log | covers+booklet | 1h11m | 249mb
Label: DECCA | cat. no. 4336 532

(b Odessa, 7 Oct 1909; d London, 27 Dec 1995). American pianist of Russian birth. A prodigy, he came to America in 1923, where he studied with Josef Hofmann at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, and in 1928 he started giving concerts. After World War II he left America to take up residence in London.
It was not until after the war that he achieved international prominence. By that time none of the great 19th-century pianists were in action, and it was suddenly realized that Cherkassky was virtually the last remaining exponent of the grand Romantic style, with his singing line, strong personality, controlled metrical fluctuations, total tonal control and strong musical personality. And, for a Romantic pianist, Cherkassky's repertory was unusual, containing as it did music by Boulez, Stockhausen, Hindemith, Ives, Ligeti and Berg. His enormous repertory also went back to Bach, Haydn and Mozart.
In his early years, his performances of the Classical composers were regarded as unstylistic; but later, thanks to studies sparked by the early music movement, Cherkassky's expressive, flexible and rhythmically free Haydn and Mozart found more sympathetic ears. In the Romantic literature it was universally agreed that he was one of a kind and, indeed, the last of his kind. His style was highly idiosyncratic, as were the styles of such great players as Rachmaninoff, Friedman and Hofmann; but it was a highly personal style based on solid musical and structural knowledge, and with a finger technique that never let him down. In an age of largely percussive playing, his sound was suave, never stressed, full of delicate applications of colour and yet big enough to encompass the sonorities of such massive works as the Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninoff concertos. And always his playing was suffused with a kind of poetry that threw new light on whatever music he played.
It is amply stated in the above quote, but let me repeat: Cherkassky has a singularly beautiful tone. I listened to this record without a break.

Tracks:

01. Schubert Sonata in A, D664 Allegro moderato [0:06:52.32]
02. Schubert Sonata in A, D664 Andante [0:04:31.43]
03. Schubert Sonata in A, D664 Allegro [0:06:57.17]
04. Chopin Nocturne in f, op55 [0:05:17.40]
05. Chopin Prelude in e, op28 no4 [0:01:46.58]
06. Chopin Prelude in d, op28 no6 [0:01:50.27]
07. Chopin Prelude in A, op28 no7 [0:00:53.23]
08. Chopin Prelude in c-sharp minor, op28 no10 [0:00:30.15]
09. Chopin Prelude in F-sharp, op28 no 13 [0:03:24.40]
10. Chopin Prelude in A-flat, op28 no17 [0:03:20.37]
11. Chopin Prelude in c, op28 no20 [0:01:52.45]
12. Chopin Prelude in F, op28 no23 [0:01:11.38]
13. Scriabin Prelude in D, op11 no5 [0:01:55.45]
14. Rubinstein, Anton Melody in F, op3 no1 [0:04:25.40]
15. Rachmaninov Pollka de V.R. [0:04:07.27]
16. Chopin Ballade no3 in A-flat, op47 [0:06:42.50]
17. Chopin Etude in c-sharp, op25 no7 [0:05:03.43]
18. Chopin Etude in b, op 25 no10 [0:03:52.32]
19. Chopin Etude in c-sharp, op10 no 4 [0:02:11.65]
20. Albéniz (arr. Godowsky) Tango from España, op165 [0:02:55.30]
21. Schubert (arr Godowsky) Moment musical no3 in f, D780 [0:02:13.00]

Performer:

Shura Cherkassky – piano

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