New release: Volume 3 New York Concerts - Mordecai Shehori
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Volume 3 of "Celebrated New York Concerts" by Mordecai Shehori has
just been released, and may be ordered from here -
Track listing:-
J.S. BACH
1. Largo from the Harpsichord Concerto in F minor, (BWV 1056)
Arranged for piano solo by Mordecai Shehori
BEETHOVEN
Sonata in F Major, Op. 54
2. Tempo d’un Menuetto
3. Allegretto
CHOPIN
4. Berceuse in D-flat Major, Op. 57
5. Polonaise in E-flat minor, Op. 40, No. 1
6. Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20
SCHUBERT-LISZT
7. Gretchen am Spinnrade
8. Erlkönig
9. Soirées de Vienne-Valse Caprice No. 6
LISZT
10. Consolation No. 3 in D-flat Major
11. Mephisto Waltz No. 1, After Lenau’s Faust
MORIZ ROSENTHAL
12. Carnaval de Vienne-Humoresque after themes by J. Strauss
All live concert recordings, date/venue details as follows:-
Tracks 1,4,6,7,9,10,11 - May 20, 1987, Merkin Concert Hall
Tracks 2,3 - April 20, 1983, Merkin Concert Hall
Tracks 5,8 - Jan 27, 1982, 92nd St Y
Track 12 - May 24, 1979, 92nd St Y
Jonathan Woolf recently did a review of volume 2 of the series, which
is reproduced below...
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/Mar08/Shehori_CD128.htm
CD review (Volume 2 of Celebrated New York Concerts by Mordecai
Shehori)
"Recorded at Merkin Concert Hall in New York between 1984 and 1987
these are yet more documents illustrating Mordecai Shehori’s powerful,
protean pianism. He approaches each piece as a musician not a cavalier
and the results attest to his superior intellectual and digital
control across a wide range of styles. He certainly lacks for nothing
in panache or technique in Liszt or Kabalevsky but the programme also
shows his acute concern for colour and texture in Rachmaninoff and for
profundity of spirit in Beethoven.
His Rachmaninoff Moments Musicaux are examples of his full blooded
romantic credentials. The evocative sound world of the E flat minor
registers through acute pedalling and control of dynamics; he shades
things perceptively. The sense of ebb and flow in the music is
captivatingly brought out - Shehori is faster than the composer in his
1940 Victor recording but he doesn’t sound rushed. Though Shehori
moved in Horowitz’s orbit for a while his performance of the B minor
sounds nothing like Horowitz’s; Shehori is much faster, gaunter, with
a terse, unsentimentalised and pervasive gloom. Each of these pieces
then is etched with a strong, pictorial character and Shehori does the
honours in the case of the E minor. This was once spectacularly
recorded by Moiseiwitsch; Shehori brings to it a palpable sense of
controlled, coiled excitement. . Warm, mellow and consoling Shehori’s
D flat major sounds, once more, entirely personal – Sofronitsky for
instance sounds completely different in his responses. This is a first
class exploration by Shehori.
Talking of Horowitz and Moiseiwitsch they both recorded Kabalevsky’s
Third Sonata. Once again, as one would expect of him, Shehori’s
viewpoint is all his own, though closer perhaps to Horowitz. Shehori
exhibits fearsome, trenchant control. He is duly winsome when
Kabalevsky asks for it in the first movement but the power and
struggle of the central movement is communicated with fierce
assurance. He’s unusually expressive in this central panel and catches
the giocoso martial cockiness of the finale – sweeping and commanding
playing.
His Liszt is similarly engaged; in fact it’s adrenalin filled to an
appreciable degree and here the slightly clangourous recording can
exaggerate those adamantine Shehori attacks. The CD recital actually
opens with Beethoven’s Olympian Op.111. Shehori refuses to linger and
meets all digital challenges with assurance. His playing brings with
it a sense of unsentimentalised refinement as well as necessary
rhythmic vivacity. It’s playing that doesn’t countenance the
philosophic or stoic but it has nobility and grandeur.
Once again then Shehori’s New York recitals show a musician of
imagination, technique and control – playing of undogmatic insight in
fact."
- Jonathan Woolf
Matthew B. Tepper
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> Would like to draw the group's attention to the gratifying news that Volume
> 3 of "Celebrated New York Concerts" by Mordecai Shehori has just been
> released, and may be ordered from here -
>
> http://www.cembaldamour.com/
I haven't yet heard an example of Mr. Shehori's playing, but his championing
of the Cembal d'Amour label strongly suggests he has taste and refinement.
Among his own performances, where would be a good place to start listening?
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ben...@yahoo.ie
good a place as any to begin a survey of Shehori. My personal
favourite and strong recommendation is volume 2 (featuring
Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Liszt), which is simply dripping in taste and
refinement! You would be hard pressed to find a better rendition of
Rachmaninov's Op 16 anywhere.
Have just listened to the latest volume 3 and first impressions are
very positive. Otherwise, take your pick from one of his solo studio
recordings - Rameau, Scarlatti, etc... some of these have received
favourable notices in this group in the past...
>
> I haven't yet heard an example of Mr. Shehori's playing, but his championing
> of the Cembal d'Amour label strongly suggests he has taste and refinement.
> Among his own performances, where would be a good place to start listening?
>
> --
> Matthew B. Tepper: WWW, science fiction, classical music, ducks!
> My personal home page --http://home.earthlink.net/~oy/index.html
> My main music page ---http://home.earthlink.net/~oy/berlioz.html
ben...@yahoo.ie
> The Celebrated New York Concerts series (live recordings) would be as
> good a place as any to begin a survey of Shehori. My personal
> favourite and strong recommendation is volume 2 (featuring
> Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Liszt),
I forgot to mention Kabalevsky's Sonata No 3 which is one of the
works included in this album
Rugby
> Among his own performances, where would be a good place to start listening?
Some knowledgable friends found the cd with the Rachmaninoff Op.16
excellent. I have the Rameau cd, which I enjoy a great deal.
Rugby
Matthew B. Tepper
> The Celebrated New York Concerts series (live recordings) would be as
> good a place as any to begin a survey of Shehori. My personal
> favourite and strong recommendation is volume 2 (featuring
> Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Liszt), which is simply dripping in taste and
> refinement! You would be hard pressed to find a better rendition of
> Rachmaninov's Op 16 anywhere.
>
> Have just listened to the latest volume 3 and first impressions are
> very positive. Otherwise, take your pick from one of his solo studio
> recordings - Rameau, Scarlatti, etc... some of these have received
> favourable notices in this group in the past...
Thanks!
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