Jan Brokken wrote an intense portrait of Youri Egorov, In het huis van de dichter (In the House of the Poet), which reads as a novel but is based on real events. I had the chance of reading the italian translation (Nella casa del pianista) published by the wonderful Iperborea. I guess it hasn't been published in English yet. So highly recommended for music lovers who read in Dutch or Italian.
Great Concerto Really ! Starts so beautifully pensive. Then comes the more jazzed up part with hot rhythm and vibraphone. Intelligently crafted with keen wit. I have great fun listening to this. Very very Cool !
I found this song on a necklace I inherited from my great grandmother when she passed away, I've had the necklace for a few years now and only just noticed it had sheet music, I've spent the past few hours trying to find this song
Three wonderful Matthay students: Bartlett and Robertson, Moura Lympany....marvelous to see Ganz amazingly leading his colleagues....Webster played Baldwin......
Great playing. Please could you advise where you got this excellent piano reduction of the orchestral score from. I have a student who would love to perform this for a university music exam but can only find the orchestral set for hire.
Lucie Stern (14 November 1912 - 15 May 1938) was a Josef Hofmann pupil and Shura Cherkassky's classmate. She studied at Curtis Institute of Music, a private conservatory in Philadelphia. Jorge Bolet was always talking about her and how great she was. Josef Hofmann about Lucie Stern: "It is the rarest talent of any child I ever heard". She was born in Riga (then Russia), but lived the majority of her life in Germany. An infant in arms, her mother held her on her lap while she gave piano lessons to her pupils. At the age of two this infant first showed the unmistakable in dictations of an amazing talent. At the age of five, under her mother's tutelage, she learned to read music. At six, she appeared in public and at six and a half, Lucie was admitted to the Berlin State Academy of Music, one of the most famous musical conservatories in the world. She studied at the 'Berliner Hochschule für Musik' under professor Egon Petri from April 1921 to March 1923. According to an Ampico Rolls book, Lucie Stern performed as a soloist with the Berliner Philharoniker at the age of eight, however some investigation on this event revealed no proof of this. The age of matriculation is eighteen. There she received scholarship, the only pupil of her age ever admitted (in 1920, at age of six !), and upon graduation she continued her studies with the famous teacher, Leonid Kreutzer. Since then she has made a profound impression throughout Europe wherever she has appeared. Her repertoire is almost without limit, embracing the great masterpieces of both ancient and modern composers. Lucie was given six months leave by the German Government to come to America. She wrote a piano piece for piano called 'A Slavonic Air'. Another of her compositions is a Valse in E minor and a Nocturne. Some efforts were made to locate manuscripts of these works, but were ultimately unsuccessful. She performed these compositions successfully in concert. I used to manage the shura-cherkassky.info website, but for some reason I no longer do. I did put a chapter on Lucie Stern in this website. Some radio broadcast: June 19, 1935 | Radio broadcast NBC service WJZ / Frank Black, conductor / Lucie Stern, soloist / NBC Symphony orchestra. Liszt - Piano Concerto in E flat. September 10, 1935 | Radio broadcast WOR / Little Symphony Orchestra / Philip James, conductor. Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18. Other radio broadcasts: March 15, 1931 | Radio broadcast London Regional | A piano Recital by Lucie Stern / 16:30 / BBC Regional Programme (BBC UK). Re-aired (!!) on March 31, 1931. September 8, 1931 | Queen's Hall London / Radio broadcast Daventry Midland / Prom 18 concert with conductor Henry Wood / BBC Symphonic Orchestra Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 33. April 1934 | Radio broadcast Luxemburg / recital / duration 40 minutes Chopin Nocturne, Valse / Liszt Rhapsody No. 6 / and more. 1936 | Radio broadcast UK / A piano Recital by Lucie Stern / 30 minutes / 'Bach-Tausig - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Chopin - Nocturne in A flat, Jacques Miller - Impromptu elegante Op. 11, John Ireland - Rhapsody. Februar 9, 1938 | Curtis Institute of Music / Radio broadcast WABC-CBS / Lucie Stern, soloist / Fritz Reiner, conductor / Curtis Symphony Orchestra Tchaikovsky - 1st movement Concerto in B flat minor Op. 23, also over KRNT-CBS radio. Some efforts were made to locate audio of these concerts, but were ultimately unsuccessful.
Must have been a fantastic prodigy to have played like this at such an age. Unfortunately she ended up a suicide still in her 20s. One wonders at the psychological pressures on such premature development. Some handle it and some can't.
@@wimmoh In fact, here are the details of Lucie Stern's demise, from the new biography of her teacher Josef Hofmann, "Josef Hofmann: The Piano's Forgotten Giant" by Elizabeth Carr, Rowman & Littlefield, page 87 (I quote verbatim): "In May of 1937, Hofmann agreed to take her back as a student and in May of 1938 she died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, her death reported in her obituary as the result of a streptococcus infection. It was generally known that she committed suicide, an act confirmed to the author by Shura Cherkassky, Jorge Bolet, Eleanor Sokoloff, and William Harms."
@@pianoredux7516 as far as I know she used chemicals to do her hair, and these were that aggressive to her skin that she got this infection and in a short period of time caused her death. I used to do the Josef Hofmann info website (I stopped already some time ago) and did had a chapter on Lucie Stern. In the book of Elizabeth there are quit a few mistakes, I did mentioned this on my Cherkassky website, and had once a very angry/upset email by some publisher to remove all of it, I did not. But it make me think, and some time later I removed the complete website.
@@wimmoh Your websites sound interesting, are they still up on the internet archive? In regard to Lucie Stern's reported cause of death, it was very common in those pre-antibiotic years to euphemize suicides as deaths by blood poisoning or bacterial infections. A family member of mine died in 1940 (before my time) supposedly of blood poisoning. Decades later I found out it was suicide. The stigma of suicide led to misattributed causes of death, as later did deaths by AIDS. I don't know definitively what happened to Lucie Stern. But to kill herself with hair goo she would have to have applied toxic metals to her hair, like lead or arsenic. If Cherkassky, Sokoloff, Harms, and Bolet all said the same thing for publication, there must be something to it. Ruth Slencynska is still alive, maybe she would know.
@@pianoredux7516 It was an extensive page with even concert dates before 1900, complete listings also all his inventions and compositions (also listed the compositions which are composed by a Josef Hofmann of Austria, there are a few CDs around with works claiming to be of 'our' Josef Hofmann, but they are simply not. After I closed down the website, not reactions, also not form our favorite biography writer Carr. She never responded, yes only with 'threads' that i should remove the corrections on her book (mostly dates and details of concerts). Sorry, but Cherkassky is a closed book for me. I could easily reupload the site, but it was a burden and struggle. Now I don't have to think about it any more.
Незабвенный Генрих Нейгауз справедливо ставил Алексея Наседкина в один ряд со Святославом Рихтером по уровню дарования и пианистических возможностей. Исполнение сонаты Шуберта конгениально ! Изумительный звук! Говорящий, поющий, проникновенный!
Donald Leslie, shame on you for turning an already awful invention, into a copycat Mighty WurliTzer! Burn in hell, you Angeleno! Scariest thing I've ever heard in my life.
Rudolf Ganz! Moura Lympany,Guiomar Novaes,Eugene List,Beveridge Webster wellknown teacher),Gaby Casadesus.Brailowsky had a huge career and recording career ! Never seen any of them on film before except Gaby Casadesus ! Tere is anoht film of Novaes playing with another pianist in south America !
One thing about this scene that I didn't pick up on right away is that even though Kramer is insane, he still respects his friends, when Jerry tells him he's not in the mood for his crap, he doesn't put up any arguments, just leaves politely
