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.
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?
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.
duet: "Papagena! Papagena!"
recitative and chorus: "Nur stille...Die Strahlen der Sonne"
Barbara Kilduff as Papagena
Manfred Hemm as Papageno
Kurt Moll as Sarastro
James Levine and the Met Orch (1991)
The great A Major Piano Concerto, K. 488, number 23, Zoltán Kocsis at the piano with the Virtuosi di Praga under Jirí Behlohlávek, recorded live At The Rittersaal Of Palais Waldstein, Prague, 29 August 1990