Ann Schein: Piano Concerto in D minor, Op. 30 - Movement 1 (Rachmaninov) - Part 1

You can now hear this complete concerto, uninterrupted, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1emczFabsE
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Ann Schein is soloist in this 1960 performance of the Rachmaninov piano concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30. Sir Eugene Goossens conducts the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. I recorded this track from the LP, "Ann Schein: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30," issued by Kapp records, serial number 6000. This performance -- Ann Schein's debut recording with a full orchestra -- was recorded in the Grosse Saal of the Musikverein, Vienna, under the direction of E. Alan Silver.

This recording was taken to Artur Rubinstein in 1961, resulting in many years of coaching for Schein (who studied with Mieczyslaw Munz) and Rubinstein's unerring support for her up until his last years.

Movement 1: Allegro ma non tanto

Part 1

NB: All images except those of Rachmaninov are taken from the LP jacket, front and reverse, and from the LP itself.
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Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов (1873—1943) - русский композитор, пианист и дирижёр. Синтезировал в своём творчестве принципы петербургской и московской композиторских школ (а также традиции западноевропейской музыки) и создал свой оригинальный стиль, оказавший впоследствии влияние как на русскую, так и на мировую музыку XX века. Фортепианный концерт № 3 ре минор, op.30 Сергея Рахманинова был написан в 1909 году и является одним из наиболее известных и часто исполняемых произведений автора. Концерт славится своим техническим и музыкальным требованием к исполнителю и имеет репутацию одного из самых трудных концертов в стандартном фортепианном репертуаре.
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1909 bereitete sich Rachmaninow intensiv auf eine Tournee durch die Vereinigten Staaten vor. Zu diesem Zweck komponierte er sein 3. Klavierkonzert in d-Moll, ein Konzert, das ähnlich große Popularität wie das zweite erlangt hat. Seine exorbitante Virtuosität war selbst Rachmaninow nicht geheuer; noch auf der Überfahrt nach Amerika übte er daran mit Hilfe einer stummen Klaviatur. Die Auftritte in den USA konnte er als Erfolg verbuchen, auch wenn er persönlich vom amerikanischen Publikum enttäuscht war und nicht verstehen konnte, dass sie ihn nur auf den Komponisten des berühmten cis-moll-Präludiums reduzierten (eines Klavierstücks übrigens, von dem Rachmaninow finanziell nichts hatte, da er sich die Urheberrechte daran nicht hatte sichern lassen.) Dass Rachmaninow zeitlebens an der Tradition eines tonalen Kompositionsstils festgehalten hat, ist ihm oft vorgehalten worden. Viele bezeichneten ihn als den „letzten Romantiker". Anhänger und Verteidiger der "Schönberg-Schule", vor allem Theodor W. Adorno, haben die Werke Rachmaninows einer oft vernichtenden Kritik unterzogen.
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Ο Σεργκέι Βασίλιεβιτς Ραχμάνινοφ ( Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов, Sergej Vasil'evič Rahmaninov, ο ίδιος έγραφε το όνομά του Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff, 1 Απριλίου 1873-- 28 Μαρτίου 1943) ήταν Ρώσος συνθέτης, πιανίστας και διευθυντής ορχήστρας. Θεωρείται ένας από τους μεγαλύτερους πιανίστες του 20ου αιώνα, εξ αιτίας των εξαιρετικών τεχνικών δυνατοτήτων του. Υπάρχουν πολλές ηχογραφήσεις με τον ίδιο να εκτελεί έργα δικά του αλλά και άλλα σημαντικά έργα του πιανιστικού ρεπερτορίου. Η ποιότητα των συνθέσεών του συχνά αμφισβητήθηκε, παρ' όλο που η δημοτικότητά του ήταν πολύ μεγάλη.

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[classicvinylbiz]

Hi, thanks for your note, and you are most welcome.

[davidhertzberg]

@MrNimblefingers36 Thanks for your note... Ms. Schein has asked me to put all her early recordings on YouTube; please visit the playlist here:

youtube*com/view_play_list?p=2­68B9B1B3F214667

best, david (from my new channnel)

[MrNimblefingers36]

What a wonderful musician! So many performances branded into my brain from hearing her for years in DC (from the Schubert Bb Impromptu at Cosmos, to the miraculous playing of this concerto at Pan American Union in Meriweather-Post, to a great recital at Lisner in the Piano Series - I think with Davidsbundler - to Constitution Hall with a performance of the "Emperor" that put Cliburn's Brahms 2nd a month earlier to shame, and later Constitution Hall "Les Adieux". Ever marvel at her gifts.

[ravelitodebussy]

@ravelitodebussy

Thank you very much, be sure that I will. Ann Schein has been a great treasure for me, in the same unespected way that I heard for the first time to Eileen Joyce, Guiomar Novaes, Rena Kyriakou, Maria Grinberg, Elly Ney.....

Great musicians, playing always with sofisication, incredible colors and that misterious gift that convinces you that everything they play is definitive...........

[davidhertzberg]

@ravelitodebussy Hello, you can now hear this work uninterrupted at the following link:

watch?v=g1emczFabsE

regards, david (from my new channel)

[ravelitodebussy]

Astonishing, one of the very best interpretations

[NOSEhow2LIV]

Beautiful! Naturally flowing tempi and supple shaping, no "mere passagework" here! Full-toned,(admittedly forwardly placed from the orchestra),and passionately singing in lyrical moments. I heard her in concert,(Proms early 1960's)with a brilliant Paganini Rhapsody, but this 3rd concerto is a wonderful discovery for me. Goossens was an enthusiastic Rachmaninovian for his time and gives fine partnership. Thank you.

[davidhertzberg]

Hi Stuart, yes, the playlist address below is from the new channel (from which I am writing). regards, david

[snaaptaker]

@davidhertzberg Great! I can hardly wait to hear them.

I assume that they (or most of them) will be on your new channel?

Thanks, again.

Regards, Stuart

[davidhertzberg]

@snaaptaker Hi, thanks for your message, its terrific to hear stories like yours, which really make these recordings come alive. Ms. Schein has kindly asked me to upload all of her early recordings to YouTube. The playlist (to which I am continually adding videos) is here:

view_play_list?p=268B9B1B3F214­667

All the best, david

[snaaptaker]

This is wonderful! Ann Schein and I grew up, as fellow pianists, in Wash. DC at the same time, although I'm a couple of years older than she. We went to different schools and sadly, for me, I never met her.

But I vividly remember hearing, and loving, her recordings on the radio in DC. However, I've never heard this recording until now. It's one of the absolute best versions of Rach3 I've ever heard, and I've heard most of them, as well as having played it, too.

Thank you very much, David.