Kapell: Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 i. (1950)

[animumaurarium]

The famous C minor mood :)

[brundontfreeze000]

i am so glad i found this on vinyl. : D.... Playing it through a tube phonograph

[jcsiegelman]

I'm mesmerized--what an unbelievably perfect performance...

[Letsplayinamud]

i wonder if they hav paino solo for this music... n i also want to know if its good enough to play by piano itself..

[ixd735]

@Letsplayinamud Well, it just wouldn't be complete without at least the second piano. Any arrangement trying to fit in all the crucial material in one piano part would fail epically.

[anderssonas1]

marvelous he is just genius 1!!!!!!!!!!

[rbrtwllc]

I grew up listening to this very performance on a set of "45 records". I was 12 years old in 1951. I think I played it each night in bed for over two years.

[Richard1685]

Billyguns, you are dead on! This is absolutely wonderful playing!

[billyguns2]

Masculine, unsentimental, and clean playing with superbly right temp, this is one of the best Rach 2s I've ever heard.

[chacoteris]

Excellent theoshow, thank you! Kapell was a great loss. The Tempo he takes is very similar to Rachmaninoff's.

[nico22059]

an amazing pianist...but unfortunately with a short life...but who cares? Apart from being an amazing pianist, he was a great musician...

[tHEnOOSEsWING]

I always hear and see something different each time I listen to another interpretation of the Rach2. So gentle and so expressive.

[ritaviolin]

Could you please upload the rest movements of Concerto?

[ritaviolin]

Thank you! Just GREAT!

[Sinfoniette]

Yay! You finally uploaded something. I never heard about Kapell, though. He looks like Van Cliburn in that picture.

[mltube]

Yeh,they both looki like a man, Sinfoniette.

[Sinfoniette]

:)

They were all great pianists.

His hair looks a whole lot like Cliburn to me. Is there a Kapell Khachaturian in YouTube, though? Its one of the best...

[mltube]

Listen to Khachaturian, Sinfoniette, if you are interested in pyrotechnics (where Kapell is also supreme). But I would rather suggest his Beethoven 2nd PC, because it is the only Beethoven that he recoded, AFAIK. And how good is it? The best I have heard (others opinions may differ, of course).

[Sinfoniette]

I borrowed the Khachaturian and the Prokofiev played by Kapell at the library. I'm not too attracted by the Beethoven Piano Concertos recently, but his Khachaturian is great. I sometimes think Kapell is Armenian for a second. And not to be ignorant but... what are pyrotechnics?