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Rudolf Serkin | BBC Legends BBCL42112

Rudolf Serkin

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Label: BBC Legends

Cat No: BBCL42112

Barcode: 0684911421125

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 30th April 2007

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Contents

Works

Felix Mendelssohn
Prelude & Fugue in E minor

Johannes Brahms
Four Pieces Op.119

Ludwig van Beethoven
Diabelli Variations Op.120

Artists

Conductor

Rudolf Serkin

Works

Felix Mendelssohn
Prelude & Fugue in E minor

Johannes Brahms
Four Pieces Op.119

Ludwig van Beethoven
Diabelli Variations Op.120

Artists

Conductor

Rudolf Serkin

About

This is the third Rudolf Serkin release on BBC Legends, all of them having received excellent reviews.  Serkin's live performances always produced the best in him. 
 
The Beethoven Diabelli Variations recorded here comes from a 1969 Royal Festival Hall concert (in fact he played it again in 1975, which is where the rest of this programme is sourced from). Peter Serkin, pianist and Rudolf Serkin's son, personally chose the material for this CD and opted for the 1969 version of the Diabelli. Rudolf Serkin recorded this marathon work for Sony in the studio in 1957.
 
The remaining part of the programme consists of the rare Mendelssohn Prelude & Fugue and Brahms' Four Pieces Op.119 which Serkin played frequently. 
 
 
Mendelssohn: Prelude & Fugue/Brahms: Four Pieces Op.119, recorded Royal Festival Hall, London, 3 February 1975
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations Op.120, recorded Royal Festival Hall, London, 25 April 1969

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