Kempff: Chamber Music

Petrucci, Ginevra;
Fabiani, Lorenzo;
Sorrentino, Francesco;
Auletta, Giovanni

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The pianist Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991) belonged to that tradition of German musicians – notably including conductors such as Furtwangler, Klemperer and Walter – for whom composition hardly less essential a component of their musical personalities than performing, even if it was an activity they largely undertook privately. Working day to day with imperishable masterworks by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, they did not expect to meet such standards, yet their own creative voices required an outlet through more than recreation of others. Left cold by the musical innovations and developments of their own time in the work of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, they wrote in a heightened Romantic idiom, and in genres – especially song and chamber music – which lay separately from their own professional activity as performers.

Works:

• Kempff: Piano Trio in G minor
• Kempff: Quartet in G Major, Op. 15

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Brilliant Classics

13-11-2019

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