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German composer, pianist and choir director
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- composer, pianist, choir director, university teacher
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2019-03-25 06:50:12
Two decades back, the Trenkner/Speidel piano duo made fine recordings of the Mahler Sixth and Seventh symphonies in piano duet versions. Their recent release featuring Bruno Walter’s four-handed Mahler First and Second symphonies, however, earned a detailed thumbs down from my colleague David Hurwitz, who cited the players’ “flat footed insensitivity”, as well as pointing […]
2015-08-14 02:03:30
Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”: Two versions. The premiere of Stravinsky’s ‘Le sacre du printemps ’ is legendary. It caused a full-blown scandal in Paris in 1913 even though the previous year the composer had participated in the premiere of the duo piano version of this epochal work. On this CD, we hear both the piano version and the orchestral version. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring for piano four hands, performed by the Piano Duo Trenkner Speidel. The Rite of Spring, as performed by the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Stefan Blunier conducting. On this CD, the Trenkner-Speidel Piano Duo presents first the version for piano four hands. Even years later Claude Debussy wrote that the memory of this premiere was like “a beautiful nightmare.” He supplied the second pair of hands during its performance, and from that time forth his admiration for his colleague, who was twenty years his junior, went over into […]
2014-11-10 06:59:26
There were only six of us in the French 5 class and, the next year, French 6 class of Madame Josephine Speidel. These were probably the smallest academic classes at our high school. In addition to learning about the passé simple and the subjunctive in grammar, faux amis in vocabulary and when to pronounce a liaison between words or when to drop an unstressed e, we soaked up French history, literature and classical music. We didn’t fully appreciate our good fortune. Madame Speidel was a woman whose posture and enthusiasm made her taller and more impressive than nature. She seemed ancient to a seventeen-year-old: pepper-and-salt hair, cardigans and reading glasses on a chain; she might have been in her early sixties. Madame Speidel’s enthusiasm almost never flagged. We read, memorized and recited poetry; listened to plays on tape and sometimes read parts from plays like Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Moliere. On […]
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