@StevenIsserlis When I met him many years ago in a Soho record shop I asked him what was the best recording of Haydn’s Paris Symphonies. He smiled and whispered 'Karajan of course - but don’t tell anyone’…
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Gerald Kingsley
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Gerald Kingsley
@GeraldKingsle15
A lifetime spent in classical music as Director of Repertoire Promotion for Josef Weinberger, loves the great pianists, musicals and cups of tea.
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A typically generous response from HC Robbins Landon to a question I asked him about Haydn's size of orchestra, before I first recorded the concertos (he also supplied the notes). A lesser man would have got a secretary to send a print-out - not he. One of my treasures!
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@rowenamezzo A very Happy Birthday dear Rowena - and how wonderful to share it with the incomparable Maria Callas..
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Very proud to share a birthday with La Divina—only wish I could have seen her live.
And also with the premières of Saint-Saëns’s ‘Samson et Dalila’ (1877) and beloved Brahms’s 3rd Symphony (1883).
Steven Isserlis@StevenIsserlis
Maria Callas b otd 1923! An extraordinary artist, who gave her all. Famously difficult - but with reason: "To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way." "I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over."
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@GramophoneMag In the early 1990s I had lunch with him and the CEO of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and all he wanted to discuss was his dining room furniture which he had made himself!
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David Patrick Stearns offers a profile of Carlos Kleiber, a complex, fascinating conductor and an often prickly character under whose guidance even the greatest of artists would surpass themselves. #Echobox=1763664487" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gramophone.co.uk/features/artic…
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@rowenamezzo Thank you so much Rowena, the family really spoiled me..
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Happy Birthday, @GeraldKingsle15 !
Hope you had a wonderful day! x
The Piano Files@ThePianoFiles
Yesterday was the 92nd birthday of Gerald Kingsley, a pupil of Edwin Fischer & friend of Medtner I had the great pleasure of meeting in 2018. During the lockdowns we recorded a remarkable conversation about musical interpretation + the legends he heard & met. @GeraldKingsle15
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@jessicaduchen I heard her in an unforgettable recital at the Royal Festival Hall playing the last three Beethoven sonatas. It stays very much in my memory…
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"I loved reading this affectionate, elegant and informative biography of one of the greatest figures in British musical history." – Sir Stephen Hough
Full info and pre-orders for MYRA HESS - NATIONAL TREASURE kahnandaverill.co.uk/product/myra-h…
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@rowenamezzo @wigmore_hall Whatever the special Birthday - very many best wishes and happy memories. Gerald & Elizabeth
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2 December: I have a significant birthday today but it’s also the 1st without my mother & it didn’t feel right to have a big party so soon after her passing. So I’m going to have a quieter celebration with a few friends & go to @wigmore_hall in the evening—a place she also loved.
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@houghhough Hello Dear Stephen,
My Cortot edition has no metronome markings but perhaps they appear in the Oxford Edition (Edouard Ganche) which gives some of Chopin’s subsequent suggestions to Jane Stirling and other pupils.
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But, to continue the story, Chopin changed his mind and it was published as below. Ah yes ... but a metronome marking was added. Makes it rather #VIVACE actually.
Stephen Hough@houghhough
Sometimes the autograph score contradicts everything everyone does. And sometimes that contradiction makes perfect sense. Chopin Etude op10 no3 #VIVACE It's all in the accents >>>> which are rubato markings. A gentle lilt/lingering
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@rowenamezzo What a great photo of your lovely mother - she has such a sensitive face. We’re thinking of you both..
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My mother is very poorly in hospital with pneumonia and very frightened. Please may I ask for your thoughts & prayers. 🙏
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The great pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva b 100 years ago today!
"The art of music...can help human beings to cope with the tragic losses in life, and bring happiness into their life... Life is limited, but art is eternal. Music enriches human life and makes people better."
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@rowenamezzo @StevenIsserlis @wigmore_hall What a wonderful video - thank you so much for sharing it!
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@StevenIsserlis @GeraldKingsle15 @wigmore_hall Just found this video which includes an interview with her re Shostakovich. V interesting…
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@StevenIsserlis @rowenamezzo @wigmore_hall Surely that would have been a most memorable experience..
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@GeraldKingsle15 @rowenamezzo I had the chance to play the Shostakovich sonata with her at the @wigmore_hall - but being young and stupid, turned it down. I should have cancelled whatever else I had. Many years later, Daniel Shafran was visibly moved when he saw her photo on the wall at the Wigmore.
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@rowenamezzo @StevenIsserlis I heard her play the Bach Goldberg Variations at the Stockholm Berwald Hall in the 1980s. Simply unforgettable!
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@StevenIsserlis There’s so much warmth in her face—love the photo of her with Lugansky. I wish I’d heard her…
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@rowenamezzo @houghhough I’m so glad you’ve got Stephen’s wonderful Rogers & Hammerstein arrangements. I really think they are masterpieces! Enjoy them..
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Hurray! It’s arrived!
Straight to the piano to look at @houghhough’s transcription of “My Favorite Things”. The spirit will be there if not necessarily all the notes!
And thank you to @GeraldKingsle15 for playing it on Monday! I haven’t stopped humming it since then!
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@rowenamezzo @houghhough So glad you’ve got these arrangements and “My Favourite Things” sounds s
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@rowenamezzo @StevenIsserlis @houghhough Really great to meet you last night and loved your description of Stephen’s wonderful arrangement of ‘My favourite things’
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Fascinating evening at Putney Music Society with the amazing @GeraldKingsle15 in conversation with @StevenIsserlis.
Exquisite recordings of Edwin Fischer & Julius Isserlis.
And to send us off dancing into the night, @houghhough’s sparkling arrangement of “My favourite things”!
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@RRussellDavies In 1957 I married Max Jaffa’s eldest daughter Elizabeth and we’ve been together ever since..
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@GeraldKingsle15 I think you should declare a family interest here, Gerald!
Love from others involved... xxx
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Over many decades, Radio Times has featured some wonderful covers, difficult not to keep. This year's, borrowed from Universal Studios, is very, very far from being one of them.
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@rowenamezzo @PetrocTrelawny @BBCRadio3 I remember the late pianist Denis Matthews saying when he had performed Bach’s C major 2 Piano Concerto with Edwin Fischer, that after playing Bach with Fischer one might remain an agnostic but could never be an atheist…
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@PetrocTrelawny @BBCRadio3 Good morning, Petroc! So lovely to listen to Edwin Fischer play Bach just now… @GeraldKingsle15
The Piano Files@ThePianoFiles
Phenomenal meeting in London with Gerald Kingsley, who studied with Edwin Fischer and had spent time with Medtner in the last year of the composer's life. What incredible recollections he shared! Details to come in a future blog post!
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Good morning. @BBCRadio3 Breakfast is on air. Early doors, Geoffrey Burgon catches John Le Carré's ear and Edwin Fischer plays Bach. Later Elizabeth Poston provides a festal Te Deum, the BBC Military Band recorded in 1931 and a trio of works by Lili Boulanger. Join us !
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@LoveInner Listen to her recording of Schubert’s Die junge Nonne with the great Edwin Fischer. How he produces the sound of the bells on the piano is a miracle!
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Soprano Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf died on this day in 2006. She first came to my attention in Karajan’s HMV version of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier and the performance still makes a very strong impression on me. Does Dame Elisabeth’s singing suit your tastes?
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