Benno Moiseiwitsch News
British musician (1890-1963)
- piano
- classical music
- United Kingdom, Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- pianist
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2023-12-11 06:16:20
Benno Moiseiwitsch (1890-1963) was one of the most eloquent and […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annually.
2022-06-20 13:43:38
Mieczysław Horszowski, 2022
[…] Carnegie Hall. Since 1914 till the outbreak of WWII he lived in Milan and then moved to the United States where he joined the staff of the Curtis Institute (among his students were Murray Perahia, and Richard Goode). Despite his small hands, Horszowski had a fabulous technique, and his favorite repertoire – works by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin – didn’t require huge hands. As many of Leschetizky’s pupils (we can think of Artur Schnabel, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Ignaz Friedman), Horszowski had a beautiful singing sound. For 50 years he partnered with his friend Pablo Casals, who preferred Horszowski to any other pianist. Here's Bach’s Partita No. 2 in C minor, recorded live in 1983. This live recording was made in Italy, but not in Monforte d'Alba but in a church of a Tuscan village of Castagno d'Andrea.
2022-02-21 14:50:04
Handel, 2022
[…] here, about his early years in London. Handel was a fascinating figure, worldly and sophisticated; he was also a virtuoso performer on the keyboard and the violin and wrote for both instruments. Here, for example, is the keyboard Suite in D minor HWV436, it comes from the mid-1720s. It’s performed by the German pianist Ragna Schirmer. Five pianists have anniversaries this week, four of them were Russian-born but none spent their life in Russia: Benno Moiseiwitsch, a British pianist, was born in Odessa, then in the Russian Empire into a Jewish family, on February 22nd of 1890; then three day later is the anniversary of another Brit, this time a “real” one but also Jewish, Dame Myra Hess. Nikita Magaloff, of Russian-Georgian descent who spent much of his life in Switzerland, was born in Saint-Petersburg on February 21st of 1912. Lazar Berman, another Russian (also Jewish), was born on the […]
2020-09-17 23:00:00
Elgar & Grieg - George Weldon & Gladys Ripley
[…] on CD, nor in decent quality digital downloads. Like Dennis Brain he was known for a love of sports cars but his early demise was a result of heavy smoking rather than motor accident. His fine stereo Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty and British Light Classics recordings are already posted here on MIMIC leaving just today's two to make up the balance of commercial issues. (There are also a few recordings where he accompanies pianists such as Moiseiwitsch and Richard Farrell.) A number of the download stores have other recordings (including more Elgar and Grieg) but they are all on dodgy labels with murky sound quality - hardly worth the listen.In the South and the Sea Pictures are particularly fine here with nothing at all routine. Although she exhibits considerable vibrato, something which I normally dislike, here Gladys Ripley's ripe contralto and antique precise diction seem just write for these songs. Gladys […]
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