VAN CLIBURN LP LSC-2252 TCHAIKOVSKY CONCERTO #1 Album R EX C EX- (LP-1788)

Powered by Frooition Pro Click here to view full size. Full Size Image Click to close full size. The Essential Van Cliburn - CD Boxset NEW Artist: Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich Runtime: Not Available # CDs in Boxset: 2 Retail Price: $19.95 Tracks Details Notes Reviews Disc 2 1. Polonaise for Piano in A flat major, B 147/Op. 53 "Heroic"2. Liebestr?ume for Piano, S 541: no 3, O Lieb, so lang 3. Suite bergamasque: 3rd movement, Clair de Lune 4. Pr?ludes, Book 2: no 12, Feux d'artifice 5. Etudes-tablea

Olga Kern shared first prize with Stanislav Ioudenitch at the 11th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in June 2001 and became the first woman to win a Gold Medal at the Fort Worth contest since Christina Ortiz in 1969. I am less impressed than the Cliburn's jurors were. In show pieces such as Liszt's Reminiscences de Don Juan, she certainly reaches decibel levels higher than those of Ioudenitch in the same composer's comparably flashy Rhapsodie espagnole and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6. But if she's louder than Ioudenitch, she's also less compelling musically. Her performance of the Liszt fantasy on themes from Mozart's Don Giovanni lacks the flashing wit and depth of feeling revealed by such Lisztians as Gregory Ginzburg (Arlecchino), Simon Barere (Pearl and Cembal d'Amour), and Jorge Bolet (London Classics). In another Liszt transcription--of Wagner's Isolde's Liebestod--her tremolandos and her use of the sustaining pedal are too ponderous to provide the shimmering and glowing texture necessary to the music. And her performance of Scriabin's Sonata No. 9 ("Black Mass") lacks the requisite grotesquerie and menace. She is at her best in second-rate music--the Impronta Digitale of Judith Lang Zaimont and the neo-Romantic Sonata (Op. 26) of Samuel Barber. --Stephen Wigler

Testament (label) ( January 12, 2010 ), Genre: Classical

Release Date: 1994-07-12, Audio CD, RCA

Every four years, the Van Cliburn Competition offers the opportunity for a select group of outstanding young musicians to showcase their talent while challenging themselves to reach new standards of artistic excellence. 20-year old Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii claimed the Gold Medal. Tsujii was already known in his home country for his refined and effortless playing, but a webcast of his spellbinding performances brought him to the attention of new fans throughout the world and raised his status in Japan to superstar. When advance CD sales in Japan exploded to more than 90, 000, Harmonia Mundi realized it was directly involved with what the Japanese are now calling 'Nobu Fever.'

Every four years, the Van Cliburn Competition offers the opportunity for a select group of outstanding young musicians to showcase their talent while challenging themselves to reach new standards of artistic excellence. 20-year old Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii claimed the Gold Medal. Tsujii was already known in his home country for his refined and effortless playing, but a webcast of his spellbinding performances brought him to the attention of new fans throughout the world and raised his status in Japan to superstar. When advance CD sales in Japan exploded to more than 90, 000, Harmonia Mundi realized it was directly involved with what the Japanese are now calling 'Nobu Fever.'

These are the three medal winners in the 1977 Cliburn International Competition, in live performances from the competition. Steven De Groote is better represented in the previous volume of the series, which he has all to himself. Here he plays Bartók with too much percussion, but at least shows he could bang with the best of them; his Chopin, though, shows great artistry. Alexander Toradze plows his way through the noisy Liszt Variations, but then gives a truly amazing performance of the Stravinsky showpiece, both technically and musically superb and worth the price of the disc on its own. Jeffrey Swann's Schumann is fine, but not memorable. The sound quality of the disc is excellent, the documentation scanty, and the title of the Liszt is severely mangled. --Leslie Gerber

These are the three medal winners in the 1977 Cliburn International Competition, in live performances from the competition. Steven De Groote is better represented in the previous volume of the series, which he has all to himself. Here he plays Bartók with too much percussion, but at least shows he could bang with the best of them; his Chopin, though, shows great artistry. Alexander Toradze plows his way through the noisy Liszt Variations, but then gives a truly amazing performance of the Stravinsky showpiece, both technically and musically superb and worth the price of the disc on its own. Jeffrey Swann's Schumann is fine, but not memorable. The sound quality of the disc is excellent, the documentation scanty, and the title of the Liszt is severely mangled. --Leslie Gerber

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