Wilhelm Kempff - Edition (80 CD)
- ARTIST:
- Wilhelm Kempff
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Celebrating Wilhelm Kempff’s incredible legacy on Deutsche Grammophon with over 92 hours of stunning performances, curated in four chapters: Concerto Recordings, Chamber Music, Solo Repertoire, Shellac Recordings;
- 6 CDs with rare shellac recordings – first release on Deutsche Grammophon
- 160pp booklet featuring: New informative liner notes by Gregor Wilmes & Original photos
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Includes recordings with Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Fournier, Henryk Szeryng, Pablo Casals, Ferdinand Leitner, Bernhard Klee, Rafael Kubelík, Paul van Kempen, Karl Münchinger, Josef Krips, Anatole Fistoulari, and more.
ABOUT THE APR RECORDINGS : Over his 60-year recording career, Wilhelm Kempff never relented in his quest for perfection. Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata, for example, was committed to disc at least nine times! Keeping up with and documenting all this activity was never easy for his record companies, and many original sources - including nearly all those from the shellac era - no longer exist in Deutsche Grammophon’s master archive. So to provide as comprehensive an overview of Kempff’s recording career as possible, DG have licensed a legendary nearly-complete Beethoven cycle from the shellac era (1925-43) from APR (transfer engineer: Mark Obert-Thorn) as a comparison with Kempff’s later complete mono and stereo LP cycles also included in the box. The edition concludes with Kempff’s very first shellac disc for Deutsche Grammophon, of Beethoven’s C major Bagatelle op.33/5, where he can faintly be heard exclaiming “Donnerwetter”(“Dammit”) when his finger strikes two notes instead of one.
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- Artist
- Wilhelm Kempff
- Genre
- Classical
- Label
- UMA
- UPC
- 0028948390755