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Beethoven\ Beethoven's Tempest Sonata mvt. 1 -- Wilhelm Kempff
Posted by: TheGreatPerformers

Video duration: 311 seconds

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Opus 31 No. 2
go to movement 3 for a bio of Kempff
"Just read Shakespeare's The Tempest", said Beethoven when he was asked about this piece (and the Appassionata, Op. 57)---So reports Anton Schindler, who is not the most trustworthy source.

recorded in Paris, 1968

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Beethoven\ Beethoven's Tempest Sonata mvt. 2 -- Wilhelm Kempff
Posted by: TheGreatPerformers

Video duration: 424 seconds

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Opus 31 No. 2,
go to movement 3 for a bio of Kempff
recorded in Paris, 1968

Related: beethoven, dminor, kempff, op31, piano, romantic, sonata
Beethoven Symphony No. 5, 2nd mvt--Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symp Beethoven Symphony No. 5, 2nd mvt--Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symp
Posted by: TheGreatPerformers

Video duration: 546 seconds

Telecast March 22, 1952 from Carnegie Hall, New York City

Related: 5, 5th, arturotoscanini, beethoven, classical, romantic, symphony
Mussorgsky - Boris Farewell and Death (George London) Mussorgsky - Boris Farewell and Death (George London)
Posted by: TheGreatPerformers

Video duration: 658 seconds

Jean Morel, conductor (1962)
George London in the death scene of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
This video clip, recorded off the Arts Channel, was provided to them "courtesy of Nora London".

Related: bass-baritone, boris-godunov, classical, george-london, mussorgsky, opera, russian-opera
Dizzy Gillespie - \"Salt Peanuts\" - 1947 Dizzy Gillespie - "Salt Peanuts" - 1947
Posted by: TheGreatPerformers

Video duration: 235 seconds

Dizzy played for Lucky Millinder's band in the early '40s. It was a riff this band played, after a Dizzy solo in the tune "Little John Special", that Dizzy developed into his tune "Salt Peanuts".
who are the sidemen here?
Is that Max Roach on drums, TheApeLad?

Related: dizzy, jazz, saltpeanuts, soundies
Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven\ Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven's Sonata 27, Op 90, mvt. 1
Posted by: TheGreatPerformers

Video duration: 328 seconds

Beethoven Piano Sonata 27 in E minor, op 90
filmed the year of Beethoven's bicentennial, 1970, in a studio at the ORTF, January 19. Kempff (November 25, 1895 -- May 23, 1991) was 75 years old.
He always seems to find so much warmth in Beethoven.

Related: beethoven, classical, eminor, kempff, op90, piano, romantic, sonata
Stravinsky - The Rake\ Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress - Prelude, start of opera
Posted by: TheGreatPerformers

Video duration: 561 seconds

Tom Rakewell - Jerry Hadley
Anne Trulove - Dawn Upshaw
Trulove - Jonathan Best
Nick Shadow - Monte Pederson
conducted by Sylvain Cambreling
The production was conceived and directed by Peter Mussbach with set/costume design by Jörg Immendorff.
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