Alfred Grünfeld (1852-1924): Soirée de Vienne
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Uploaded by d60944 on Feb 2, 2008
The great Alfred Grünfeld playing his arrangement of some Johann Strauss melodies, recorded in 1910 (25 October). Grünfeld was the first great pianist to make any kind of commercial recordings, which he commenced in 1899.
He left recordings of works by Bach, Chopin, Schumann, Grieg, Debussy, Liszt, Brahms and others; but Grünfeld was known primarily as a provider of light entertainment music in Vienna, and his arrangements of Strauss's music are his most famous and enduring legacy. Note the sprung rhythms, smiling charm and sheer genial wit in the performance: this music is more often performed today as mere virtouso display.
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ALFRED GRUNFELD (born at Prague July 4, 1852 - January 4, 1924 in Vienna) was an Austrian pianist and composer.
MOLTO BELLO!!! Thank you for sharing this video.
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I do not understand this comment. Would you explain?
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have you tried Scherbakov's Strauss recordings? the Bosendorfer there is exquisitely brilliant!
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is this in a different key?
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Delightful playing!
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Superb! Bravo! TY.
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I wonder if this is a Bosendorfer of that period.
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Fun, I have the original 78rpm of this record at home... :) Do you have any of his 1899 records?
Greetings, Rolf (click "otterhouse" above, to hear some of my record collection)
otterhouse 4 years ago
Yes, browse my playlist of Grunfeld and you'll find one of the 1899 records of Grieg's Papillon.
d60944 4 years ago
did he arrange other Strauss works? i'll be more than excited to hear those!
libetta 2 years ago
@libetta
Yes, he made quite a few transcriptions and paraphrases. I believe that he only recorded two: I have posted his Frühlingsimmen waltz on here already.- go to my playlists. (He also left some piano rolls, which include his super paraphrase of the Aschenbrödel ["Cinderella"] waltzes, and a roll called paraphrase on Die Fledermaus - but I expect that is a mistitling of this Soirees de Vienne piece.)
d60944 2 years ago