Rudolf and Peter Serkin play Schubert (vaimusic.com)

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Rudolf and Peter Serkin play Schubert: March in G Major, Op. 52, No. 2.
From: VAI DVD 4328 In Celebration of the Piano: A Tribute to the Steinway
A mammoth 1988 concert featuring twenty-six pianists, including Lazar Berman, Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, Rudolf and Peter Serkin (in a rare duo performance), Alexis Weissenberg, Peter Orth, Ruth Laredo, Robert Taub, Shura Cherkassky, Mischa Dichter, and José Feghali in works by Liszt, Moszkowski, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Villa-Lobos, and others. Concert is capped by a thrilling performance of Schumanns Carnaval played by 19 pianists. Hosted by Van Cliburn.
100 minutes, Color, Stereo. Playable in all regions.
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[ojiihata]

D733・Op.51-2

[tantekiki]

Saturday music. Happy birthday to Peter Serkin.

[tom10thumb]

I read an interview with Peter Serkin in the N.Y. times maybe in the late seventies or early 80's. He talked about the time he left the music world and lived out west. It was a rebellion. I loved that article. I was just beginning to listen to classical music and being from the same generation, I identified with what he said. I have listened to him ever sense. It makes this video with his father all the more wonderful to watch.

[goldberg72]

che gran signore serkin

[demosj]

The same author wrote a Horowitz biography in which in the 1980s Vladimir and Rufolf were planning to give a four-hands Schubert recital, but it never took place. That would've been something to hear.

[azormage]

I find it charming, the little similarities in their body language, particularly the mouths. Rudolf Serkin must be very proud.

[bartok159]

"Peter [Serkin] has a brilliant musical mind and I love playing with him. It's very difficult to find a person whom you are comfortable playing four-hand music with. The chemistry between us is very good and we hope to play concerts together eventually and perhaps make a two-piano record."

- By World-Acclaimed Pianist CECILE LICAD

{Glenn Plaskin, New York Times, October 4, 1981}

[bartok159]

"It was demanding and rewarding program that Peter Serkin and his distinguished colleagues offered at Sanders Theater Saturday night ... Serkin and the phenomenal young Cecile Licad played Stravinsky's two masterpieces for two pianos, the 'Concerto for Two Solo Pianos' and the 'Sonata for Two Pianos' ..... There were no ensemble problems worth mentioning; what mattered was the precision, clarity, address, and beauty of the playing."

{Richard Dyer, Boston Globe, March 7, 1983}

[Noshirm]

Peter Serkin has the hint of a smile on his face. I am sure he knew a document of historical importance was being made as this was being recorded. Horowitz, Arrau, and Serkin were among the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. But It is SERKIN whose child, thoroughly grounded in a musical education of excellence, (his teachers were his father, Lee Luvisi, and the angelic Mieczyslaw Horszowski) has followed most closely in the glorious tradition of his great and eminently lovable father!!

[bartok159]

"He [Rudolf Serkin] is never impatient and has a wonderful sense of humor at lessons. He demonstrates frequently at the keyboard, but insists that I play like me, not like him. He taught me to think about the music itself. Although he gives me many choices, he is very strict about emphasizing what the composer intended, what is written in the score."

- By Pianist Cecile Licad

{From article by Glenn Plaskin, New York Times, October 4, 1981}

Courtesy: New York Times