Alfred Brendel - Young Brendel (2001)
Artist: Alfred Brendel, Paul Angerer, Wiener KammerOrchester, Symphonieorchester der Volksoper Wien, Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra, Walter Klien, Southwest German Radio Orchestra, Wiener Staatsoper, Michael Gielen, Jonathan Sternberg
Title: Young Brendel
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: Vox Box
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet)
Total Time: 7:35:25
Total Size: 2 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Young Brendel
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: Vox Box
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet)
Total Time: 7:35:25
Total Size: 2 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Disc 1
1. Alfred Brendel, Wiener Kammerorchester & Paul Angerer – Keyboard Concertino in C Major, Hob. XIV:11: I. Allegro (07:53)
2. Alfred Brendel, Wiener Kammerorchester & Paul Angerer – Keyboard Concertino in C Major, Hob. XIV:11: II. Un poco adagio (06:52)
3. Alfred Brendel, Wiener Kammerorchester & Paul Angerer – Keyboard Concertino in C Major, Hob. XIV:11: III. Rondo all'ungherese. Allegro Assai (04:20)
4. Alfred Brendel, Symphonieorchester der Volksoper Wien & Paul Angerer – Rondo in D Major, K. 382 "Piano Concerto No. 28": I. Allegretto grazioso (05:43)
5. Alfred Brendel, Symphonieorchester der Volksoper Wien & Paul Angerer – Rondo in D Major, K. 382 "Piano Concerto No. 28": II. Adagio (02:15)
6. Alfred Brendel, Symphonieorchester der Volksoper Wien & Paul Angerer – Rondo in D Major, K. 382 "Piano Concerto No. 28": III. Allegro (02:13)
7. Alfred Brendel, Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra & Paul Angerer – Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major, K. 595: I. Allegro (14:31)
8. Alfred Brendel, Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra & Paul Angerer – Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major, K. 595: II. Andante (08:01)
9. Alfred Brendel, Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra & Paul Angerer – Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major, K. 595: III. Allegretto (09:11)
Disc 2
1. Alfred Brendel – Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-Flat Major, Op. 81a "Les adieux": I. Das Lebewohl. Adagio - Allegro (06:13)
2. Alfred Brendel – Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-Flat Major, Op. 81a "Les adieux": II. Abwesenheit. Andante espressivo (03:09)
3. Alfred Brendel – Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-Flat Major, Op. 81a "Les adieux": III. Das Wiedersehn. Vivacissimamente (05:33)
4. Alfred Brendel – Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 "Tempest": I. Largo - Allegro (07:49)
5. Alfred Brendel – Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 "Tempest": II. Adagio (07:47)
6. Alfred Brendel – Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 "Tempest": III. Allegretto (05:53)
7. Alfred Brendel – Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: I. Vivace ma non troppo (03:20)
8. Alfred Brendel – Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: II. Prestissimo (02:26)
9. Alfred Brendel – Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: III. Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo (11:38)
10. Alfred Brendel – 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 1 in G Minor (02:33)
11. Alfred Brendel – 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 2 in C Major (00:55)
12. Alfred Brendel – 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 3 in D Major (01:30)
13. Alfred Brendel – 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 4 in A Major (01:30)
14. Alfred Brendel – 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 5 in C Minor (01:03)
15. Alfred Brendel – 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 6 in G Major (00:30)
16. Alfred Brendel – 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 7 in C Major (01:20)
17. Alfred Brendel – 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 8 in C Major (01:07)
18. Alfred Brendel – 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 9 in A Minor (01:54)
19. Alfred Brendel – 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 10 in A Major (00:47)
20. Alfred Brendel – 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 11 in B-Flat Major (01:58)
21. Alfred Brendel – 7 Variations on Kind, willst du ruhig schlafen F Major, WoO 75 (10:50)
Disc 3
1. Alfred Brendel – Fantasia in G Minor, Op. 77 (09:42)
2. Alfred Brendel – 15 Variations & Fugue in E-Flat Major, Op. 35 "Eroica" (22:50)
3. Alfred Brendel – Rondo in C Major, Op. 51 No. 2 (09:55)
4. Alfred Brendel & Hungarian Quintet – Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 16: I. Grave - Allegro, ma non troppo (11:36)
5. Alfred Brendel & Hungarian Quintet – Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 16: II. Andante cantabile (08:01)
6. Alfred Brendel & Hungarian Quintet – Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 16: III. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo (06:39)
7. Alfred Brendel – Rondo in B-Flat Major, WoO 6 (10:06)
Disc 4
1. Alfred Brendel – Fantasy in C Major, Op. 15, D. 760 "Wandererfantasie" (22:13)
2. Alfred Brendel – 3 Klavierstücke, D. 946: No. 1 in E-Flat Minor (08:55)
3. Alfred Brendel – 3 Klavierstücke, D. 946: No. 2 in E-Flat Major (09:47)
4. Alfred Brendel – 3 Klavierstücke, D. 946: No. 3 in C Major (05:10)
5. Alfred Brendel & Walter Klien – Slavonic Dances, Series 1, Op. 46, B. 78 (Version for Piano Duo): No. 1 in C Major. Furiant (03:29)
6. Alfred Brendel & Walter Klien – Slavonic Dances, Series 1, Op. 46, B. 78 (Version for Piano Duo): No. 2 in E Minor. Dumka (03:50)
7. Alfred Brendel & Walter Klien – Slavonic Dances, Series 1, Op. 46, B. 78 (Version for Piano Duo): No. 3 in A-Flat Major. Polka (03:53)
8. Alfred Brendel & Walter Klien – Slavonic Dances, Series 1, Op. 46, B. 78 (Version for Piano Duo): No. 8 in G Minor. Furiant (03:27)
9. Alfred Brendel & Walter Klien – Slavonic Dances, Series 2, Op. 72, B. 145 (Version for Piano Duo): No. 1 in B Major. Odzemek (04:02)
10. Alfred Brendel & Walter Klien – Slavonic Dances, Series 2, Op. 72, B. 145 (Version for Piano Duo): No. 2 in E Minor. Dumka (03:39)
11. Alfred Brendel & Walter Klien – Slavonic Dances, Series 2, Op. 72, B. 145 (Version for Piano Duo): No. 4 in D-Flat Major. Dumka (04:15)
12. Alfred Brendel & Walter Klien – Slavonic Dances, Series 2, Op. 72, B. 145 (Version for Piano Duo): No. 6 in B-Flat Major. Polonaise (02:58)
13. Alfred Brendel & Walter Klien – Slavonic Dances, Series 2, Op. 72, B. 145 (Version for Piano Duo): No. 7 in C Major. Kolo (03:13)
Disc 5
1. Alfred Brendel – Ouvertüre zur Oper Oberon von Carl Maria von Weber, S. 574 (09:09)
2. Alfred Brendel – Miserere du Trovatore, S. 433 (After Verdi) (08:16)
3. Alfred Brendel – Isoldens Liebestod, S. 447 (After Wagner) (06:12)
4. Alfred Brendel – Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173: No. 10, Cantique d'amore (06:24)
5. Alfred Brendel – Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173: No. 3, Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude (15:45)
6. Alfred Brendel – Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173: No. 7, Funérailles (11:01)
7. Alfred Brendel – Années de pèlerinage II, Italy, S. 161: No. 4, Sonetto 47 del Petrarca (05:58)
8. Alfred Brendel – Années de pèlerinage II, Italy, S. 161: No. 5, Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (06:08)
9. Alfred Brendel – Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141: No. 2 in E-Flat Major (05:41)
10. Alfred Brendel – Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141: No. 3 in G-Sharp Minor "La campanella" (05:10)
Disc 6
1. Alfred Brendel, Southwest German Radio Orchestra & Michael Gielen – Piano Concerto, Op. 42 (21:04)
2. Alfred Brendel, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera & Jonathan Sternberg – Piano Concerto No. 5 in G Major, Op. 55: I. Allegro con brio (05:02)
3. Alfred Brendel, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera & Jonathan Sternberg – Piano Concerto No. 5 in G Major, Op. 55: II. Moderato ben accentuato (03:16)
4. Alfred Brendel, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera & Jonathan Sternberg – Piano Concerto No. 5 in G Major, Op. 55: III. Toccata. Allegro con fuoco (02:09)
5. Alfred Brendel, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera & Jonathan Sternberg – Piano Concerto No. 5 in G Major, Op. 55: IV. Larghetto (05:58)
6. Alfred Brendel, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera & Jonathan Sternberg – Piano Concerto No. 5 in G Major, Op. 55: V. Vivo (05:25)
7. Alfred Brendel – 3 Mouvements de Pétrouchka: No. 1, Danse russe (02:32)
8. Alfred Brendel – 3 Mouvements de Pétrouchka: No. 2, Chez Pétrouchka (04:53)
9. Alfred Brendel – 3 Movements from Petrushka: No. 3, La semaine grasse (09:00)
10. Alfred Brendel – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11 in A Minor, S. 244 (06:10)
11. Alfred Brendel – Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S. 514 "Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke" (11:18)
Alfred Brendel is the preeminent thinking pianist, a loner to whom fame came through the power of imaginative integrity, an artist who has achieved -- at his best -- a divinatory rapport with piano literature from Bach to Schoenberg. Yet by his account, "I did not come from a musical or intellectual family....I have not been a child prodigy. I do not have a photographic memory; neither do I play faster than other people. I am not a good sight-reader." Born in Wiesenberg, Moravia -- in the latter-day Czech Republic -- in 1931, he received piano lessons from ages 6 to 16, as the family moved from Zagreb to Graz, and studied composition privately while supporting himself in a variety of odd jobs. Brendel was among the first generation to learn from recordings, the legacies of Cortot, Kempff, Schnabel, Furtwängler, and Toscanini proving especially valuable. Master classes with Eduard Steuermann -- a pupil of Busoni and Schoenberg -- and Edwin Fischer crowned his scarce tuition. A 1948 debut recital in Graz marked the beginning of his career, launched by taking a prize at the Busoni Competition in Bolzano in 1949. Busoni's example, his mysticism and Faustian striving, fascinated the young Brendel -- he recorded Busoni's Fantasia Contrappuntistica in the early 1950s -- but proved a detour while prompting an extraordinary insight into the music of Liszt. The ensnaring and gradual liberation from Busoni's influence may be traced in the several essays Brendel wrote about him in Musical Thoughts & After-Thoughts. Fischer came to mean more. "With Fischer," Brendel wrote in 1960, "one was in more immediate contact with the music: there was no curtain before the soul when he communicated with the audience. One other musician, Furtwängler, conveyed to the same degree this sensation of music not being played, but rather happening by itself." Armed with such ideals, Brendel embarked upon an international recital and recording career which, in the decade of the 1960s, saw his reputation grow throughout Europe and North America as he became a frequent guest with the world's greatest orchestras. He performed the entire cycle of Beethoven sonatas in London's Wigmore Hall in 1962, and recorded them for Vox. In the 1970s he became an exclusive Philips artist, touring and recording prolifically, not only the Classical masters -- Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann -- but Liszt, Mussorgsky, Stravinsky, Bartók, and Schoenberg, and garnering numerous awards. He has published books of comedic poetry and musical criticism. In 2004 he appeared in concert with his son, cellist Adrian Brendel. Brendel announced his retirement in 2007 and undertook one last, worldwide concert and recital tour, ending in Vienna in December 2008, performing, appropriately enough, Mozart's "Jeunehomme" Piano Concerto. ~ Adrian Corleonis
