Alfred Denis Cortot cortot, alfred Denis , 18771962, French pianist and conductor. Among hisappearances as a conductor were those at Bayreuth (18981901). http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0813676.html
Extractions: In Paris in 1902, the twenty-five-year-old conductor gave the first performance of Wagner's and later Parsifal German Requiem , Liszt's Saint Elizabeth Oratorio , and even Beethoven's Missa Solemnis which, amazing as it sounds, took eighty-five years to reach Paris from Vienna. Besides this, he championed many contemporary French works both as a conductor and pianist. Ever restless and musically hungry, he formed a piano trio with Pablo Casals and Jacques Thibaud in 1905, which must rank as one of the finest chamber ensembles in history. Fortunately, their art is captured in several priceless recordings including Beethoven's Archduke Trio, Schubert's B-flat Trio, and the Mendelssohn and Schumann D minor Trios, while Cortot's conducting may be heard in the Brahms Double Concerto with Casals and Thibaud as soloists. Cortot's dedication to his art was tireless. He once warned Lipatti, "If you decide to dedicate your life to this art you must be armed with patience, and be ready for many sacrifices". Cortot's musical advice was often highly detailed. After a public performance by Lipatti of the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1, Lipatti wrote home: "At the end of the concert Cortot opened the score and made some interesting remarks. He would have liked bars 22-23, in the third section (Scherzo), played a little more freely, more capriciously. Also in the Scherzo, bars 141-161, he suggested I play a tremolo (similar to the one which precedes the last scale-passage in the Coda) instead of a trill, as only in this way will it sound clearly and powerfully. The same applies to bars 70-72 in the Finale. As to bars 80-85, he suggests I play them in the version given as 'ossia', not in original form. He also showed me several changes in the score added later by Liszt himself..."
Alfred Cortot alfred cortot bio and recommended recordings. when editing simply didn texist, and later recordings capture a pianist in his 70 s and 80 s. http://members.macconnect.com/users/j/jimbob/classical/cortot.html
Extractions: Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 Richard Sauer asks: Several posters persuaded me to invest in Furtwaengler-money well spent. Now I wonder if someone can do the same for Cortot recordings. In the past I shied away from the Furtwaengler releases because of the Penguin Guides. The 1989 companion to the main volume often, but not always, writes about Furtwaengler: "pulls the music out of shape", "distorts" etc. Moreover Penguin's editors weigh the sonics as heavily as the performance, so many classic performances get the kiss of death- a (*). Similarly, I have flipped past Cortot discs (Pearl) because of the cost, and the suspicion (unwarranted I suspect) that Cortot wasn't all he was cracked-up to be-"willful", "distorting". I know he drops a lot of notes, but so did Schnabel. Anyway: Why Cortot? and where does one start? Schumann? Chopin? or Liszt? NOTE: info shamelessly stolen from liner notes and Harold Schonberg's The Great Pianists . I'm sure there are other sources, but this is being done strictly OTTOMH.
Ccm :: Cortot, Alfred Cortot cortot, alfred 18771962 Switzerland, Nyon - France, Lausanne pianist, conductor.Title, Parts. Largo after Chopin s sonata op65. Piano Fredrik Ullen. http://composers-classical-music.com/c/CortotAlfred.htm
Cortot Schumann/Chopin alfred cortot, pianist; London Philharmonic Orch/Landon Ronald (Schumann); alfred cortot (18771962) was a pianist in the grand style, idiosyncratic to http://classicalcdreview.com/cortot.htm
Extractions: NAXOS 8.110612 (B) (ADD) TT: 60:58 Alfred Cortot (1877-1962) was a pianist in the grand style, idiosyncratic to the extreme, a superb technician who seldom found time to practice. There is a sense of improvisation present even in his recordings. His lapses in memory are legendary. Sir Thomas Beecham said, describing an episode of forgetfulness when accompanying Cortot, "We started with the Beethoven, and I kept up with Cortot through the Grieg, Schumann, Bach and Tchaikovsky, and then he hit on one I didn't know, so I stopped dead." Don't expect note-perfect performances in these grand interpretations, Cortot's only recording of the Chopin Second, recorded in 1935 with an anonymous orchestra, his third of the Schumann (the first was an acoustic made in 1923, the second an electric made in 1927 all conducted by Landon Ronald). I can still remember when very young (many years ago!) listening repeatedly to the second movement of the Chopin (Victor Album M 567) marveling at the incredible sensitivity combined with bravura in this performance. Both the Schumann and Chopin receive impetuous readings that command attention. Barbirolli often conducted concerto accompaniments (he had recorded the Chopin Second in 1931 with Artur Rubinstein ) and copes admirably with Cortot's waywardness.
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Extractions: Music/AV Library Home Boyce Library Home School of Church Music Home SBTS Home Help Piano Resources Whether you are a piano student, church pianist, lover of piano music, or all of the above, you're in the right place. Below you will find a guide to selected resources both within our library and beyond. Although we cannot list everything, we hope this will give you a good starting point for your own research. This is a work in progress; if you discover some helpful resources that you would like to see listed here, please email us with your suggestions. Selected Library Holdings - Easy to Intermediate Piano Music
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Ning An, Piano pianist Ning An on the Hunstein Artist Services website. In addition, hereceived the alfred cortot Prize at the 2000 International Chopin Competition. http://www.hunsteinartists.com/ningan.html
Extractions: Pianist Ning Ans Carnegie Hall debut, an all-Chopin program presented by the Chopin Foundation of the United States in Weill Recital Hall, was praised in the New York Concert Review for the "almost sculpted clarity of his playing, and his ability to maintain balance and tension in large-scale dramatic forms Ning An impresses with his developed musicianship, his discerning sense of form and style, his penetrating and illuminating interpretation, and his perfect technical command. I have no doubt that he will join the ranks of the finest interpreters of Chopin." A semi-finalist in the 2005 Van Cliburn Competition, Mr. An was the Third Prize winner of the 1999 Queen Elizabeth Music Competition and First Prize Winner in the 2000 National Chopin Piano Competition. In addition, he received the Alfred Cortot Prize at the 2000 International Chopin Competition. Other top prizes he has received are from the American Pianists Association, the Kosciusko Chopin Competition, and the Stravinsky International Piano Competition. Most recently Mr. An was the Third Prize winner of the 2002 Paloma OShea Santander Competition in Spain, and won the audience prize at the 2002 Rachmaninoff International Competition held in Pasadena, California.
Magda.html Still a young pianist in the flourishing Paris of the beginning of the century, She was also invited to replace alfred cortot at the École Nationale the http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rpassarj/magda.html
Extractions: After the Conservatoire, she followed her studies with Alfred Cortot, who, she once recalled in a TV interview in Brazil, showed her how to put her fantasy and imagination at her service when playing. She became a friend of the members of the famous Casals-Cortot-Thibaud trio and used to play tennis with them, accompanied Casals and Thibaud in concerts, played under Cortot's baton. Her youth in the flamboyant Paris was full of adventure: she recalled as being one of the first women drivers, of singing the part of Love in an open air production of Gluck's Orfeo. Among her recollections were walks with Ravel, always silent most of the time. She also met D'Indy, Poulenc, Milhaud.
Boaz Sharon the Washington Post ( Superb technique musicianly pianist ), the DailyTelegraph, Piano Sessions at the Ecole Normale de Musique alfred cortot. http://www.arts.ufl.edu/music/piano/boaz.html
Extractions: Sharon has won First Prizes at the Jaen International Piano Competition, Spain and the MTNA National Collegiate Awards. Sharon is currently Artistic Director for the Prague International Piano Masterclasses and teaches on the artist faculty of the Paris International Piano Sessions at the Ecole Normale de Musique "Alfred Cortot." He is also President of the Israeli Liszt Society. He was a member of the piano jury for the Rudolph Firkusny International Piano Competition in Prague, 2005 Professor Sharon has conducted masterclasses and given recitals at leading universities and concert halls in many countries,including concerts at the Gardner Museum, Boson; the National Gallery and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; National Recital Hal, Taipei; Salle Cortot, Paris; National Museum, Prague; and most recently with the Yekaterinbourg Philharmonic in Russia. In 2003-2004, Sharon is scheduled to perform in recitals in New York City's Steinway Hall, and a month-long orchestra and recital tour in Russia. Beginning in 2002-2003, Sharon joined the faculty of International Certificate for Piano Artists, sponsored by the Ecole Normale de Musique "Alfred Cortot" and the University of Florida - College of Fine Arts. This unique and intensive program includes the participation of 8-10 piano participants, selected internationally, and taught by five artist-teachers in the course of a year in Brussels and Paris.
French Culture | Music | CD New Releases | Classical Index 2001-07 cortot, alfred cortot Plays French Music Vol. 2 Naxos 8.110613 Second volume ofFrench pianist alfred cortot s complete recorded piano concerto repertoire. http://www.frenchculture.org/music/cd/classical/archive01-07.html
Extractions: Handel's Italian cantatas Delirio Amoroso (1707); Lucretia (1709), and Tra le Fiamme (ca. 1707) played by French conductor Mark Minkowski and Les Musicians du Louvre. Czech soprano Magdalena Kozena is the soloist. Recorded live Dec. 1999 at the Salle Messiaen, Maison de Radio France, Paris. Jacques Paisible: Six Setts of Airs
French Culture | Music Recordings | Classical Archive 0202 The trio of French pianist alfred cortot, French violinist Jacques Thibaud, andCatalan cellist Pablo Casals recorded this program of Mendelssohn s Trio in http://www.frenchculture.org/music/cd/classical/archive02-02.html
Extractions: French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and French pianist Alexandre Tharaud perform seminal masterpieces of 20th-century Hungarian chamber music. The lush Kodaly - including Sonata for cello and piano (1909) and Cello Sonata No. 8 (1915) - is interpreted with native feeling. The spiky Kurtag is handles with mastery and authority. Very fine. Ravel: Complete Piano Works
Andante Boutique - Frederic Chopin - Solo Piano, Volume I the great French pianist alfred cortot in the Preludes, and Rubinstein, alfred cortot (piano) Paris, Studio Albert, 2 December 1942 (tracks 120, http://www.andante.com/boutique/Shop/index.cfm?action=displayProduct&iProductID=
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Chopin: As Seen By A Pianist For further reading, I recommend alfred cortots Aspects of Chopin, and JeanJacques Eigeldingers Chopin pianist and Teacher As Seen By His Pupils. http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm5-5/Chopin-en.htm
Extractions: Nocturnes Op.62 and the second from Op.55). Mozart was a favourite, Beethoven less so. His attitude towards his contemporaries was ambiguous at best. He was cool towards Schumann, never reciprocating the latter’s enthusiasm for his own music. And his admiration for Liszt was tinged with jealousy. But perhaps the most important aspects of his personality were his insecurity and his indecisiveness (many letters to his parents in which he expresses his hesitation between going back to Poland to fight alongside his countrymen or staying in his new adopted home attest to this trait). This "folie du doute," his inability to make up his mind, actually permeates many of his works and is even reflected in his harmonic language, making him by far one of the most original harmonists of his time. The second Prelude Op.28 in A minor
Paul Cadmus interesting documents in this collection is a letter which Cadmus wrote toAitkin on a program for a recital given by the French pianist alfred cortot. http://archivesofamericanart.si.edu/exhibits/piano/cadmus.htm
Extractions: Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) The fondness Paul Cadmus felt for for his friend Webster Aitkin, the concert pianist, is evident in his letters. Cadmus often discusses mutual friends, painting and music, and expresses his admiration of Aitkin's musicianship. In a 1947 letter Cadmus muses, "I keep wishing: if only I were rich! Not for the money; just so that I could commission you to do K. 503 and a Weber concertoit mightn't be good, but I would like to hear itfor an invited audience: yours & mine." Aside from how he felt about Weber's concertos, Cadmus certainly had confidence in Aitkin's pianistic skills (developed through study at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, and with Emil van Sauer and Artur Schnable in Vienna) and an appreciation for piano literature. As he asks Aitkin in one letter, "So are you breaking, or by this time have broken the back of Eliot's sonata: How pleased I am; it implies a back and a bone to break. How rare! In these days when the anatomy of the worm is body enough for most composers."
