1925 BENNO MOISEIWITSCH ACOUSTIC Mendelssohn Piano Cto 1 G Minor Landon Ronald78

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A series of great  classical orchestral and instrumental performances by major conductors, composers and instrumentalists.

Benno Moisewitsch is by many considered the last "subjective" grand piano player in the grand 19th century tradition, as opposed to the literal piano players of the 20th century,

3x 12" HMV 78 rpm records

Condition:

VERY GOOD PLU SPLUS, uwnorn but rubs, and a few mostly short scratches. Plays very quiet w faint crackle, scratches mostly don't cause a click. A FASCINATING set

About this recording

Great Pianists • Benno Moiseiwitsch (1890-1963)

 Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2

After hearing Moiseiwitsch at Carnegie Hall in the 1926-7 season, the pianist and writer Abram Chasins said to his friend the great pianist Josef Hofmann, "I think I have just heard your heir apparent." Hofmann’s immediate reply was, "Ah, so you heard Moiseiwitsch. Now there’s a natural pianist in the romantic tradition."

Benno Moiseiwitsch was born in Odessa in 1890. At nine he won the Anton Rubinstein prize and after being told by the Guildhall School of Music in London that they could teach him nothing, he went, at the age of fourteen, to Vienna where he studied with Leschetizky. At first Leschetizky told the young Benno that he could play better with his feet, but young Benno was undeterred and spent nearly two years in Vienna perfecting his art with the great teacher. His British début was in Reading in 1908 and his international career took him to every corner of the world.

It has been said that Moiseiwitsch worked too hard during his professional life and as a result his playing suffered. There is little evidence of this in his recordings but even in the 1920s he was frequently touring the world. To give some idea of his work-load, the following is part of his schedule in the mid 1920s. In January 1924 he played at the Queen’s Hall in London having just returned from a tour of Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada. Further Queen’s Hall concerts were given in April, June and September, the one in April consisting of Chopin’s Fantasie in F minor, 24 Preludes Op.28, Sonata in B flat minor and the Liszt Sonata in B minor. Queen’s Hall concerts were given in the same months of 1925, but he also toured Britain extensively, playing a huge number of concerts. The Queen’s Hall concert of 26th September 1925 was followed immediately by appearances in Bath and Exeter. During November he played in Ryde, Guildford, Chester, Liverpool, the Queen’s Hall on the 11th, Tunbridge Wells, Malvern, the Albert Hall on the 25th, Bradford, Liverpool, and on the 31st, Alexandra Palace. The beginning of November saw him in Glasgow and Edinburgh and from the 7th to the 28th he toured Spain. On the 31st November he played in Croydon, and in December gave concerts in Eastbourne, Brighton, the Queen’s Hall again on the 6th plus Woodford Green, Bournemouth and Dublin. January-April 1926 saw his fifth tour of the United States and Canada, from which he went directly on to tour South America from May to July reappearing at Queen’s Hall on the 25th and 30th September with two different programmes. Incidentally, two days later Josef Hofmann gave a Wigmore Hall recital which included the Fourth Sonata of Scriabin, Balakirev’s Islamey and Three Chinese Pieces by Abram Chasins. In 1928 Moiseiwitsch gave one London recital at the Wigmore Hall before making an extended tour of Australia, New Zealand, India and the Far East.

In 1937 Moiseiwitsch became a British citizen and during the Second World War again took upon himself a huge amount of work for the war effort in response to Mrs Churchill’s broadcast appeal in November 1941 for the ‘Aid to Russia’ fund. Moiseiwitsch wrote her a letter: "I have been wondering in what way I could help. I know that any monetary contribution I could make would only amount to a small drop in the ocean; and since this cause cries out for a bigger effort, I would like to offer my humble services in the following way. If your organization can cope with a concert artist I would willingly offer a day a week, for the duration of the war, to give recitals — private or public — at any centre your organization, in conjunction with my managers, could arrange. I would require neither remuneration nor expense fees."

In December 1941 it was formally announced that Moiseiwitsch would give one recital each week during the war to help the fund, although the concerts seemed to be on consecutive days; Leeds on the 4th February 1942, Huddersfield on the 5th, Birmingham on the 11th and Nottingham on the 12th. The concert of 6th January at the Dorchester Hotel in London was postponed to the 26th and although a reviewer admired ‘popular’ works of Chopin, Debussy and the Brahms Paganini Variations, he found that during one of the two Beethoven Sonatas "Mr Moiseiwitsch’s clockwork technique stumbled for a scarcely perceptible moment in the Pathétique." Moiseiwitsch’s stamina must have been incredible for at the beginning of May he played Beethoven’s Third, Fourth and Fifth Concertos at the Albert Hall in one programme (each with a different conductor), again for the ‘Aid to Russia’ fund. Concerts on the 6th, 7th, 8th, 11th, 12th, and 14th March 1943 must have contributed to fibrositis of the arms which led Moiseiwitsch to cancel a concert on the 15th. However, in June he played a tribute to Rachmaninov at the Albert Hall. In this taxing programme he played Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto, Third Concerto and the Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini all conducted by Henry Wood, proceeds again going to the ‘Aid to Russia’ fund. During the war Moiseiwitsch raised nearly £10,000 for the cause.

Moiseiwitsch became a close friend of the Churchills and on a television broadcast of September 1958 he dedicated a performance of Chopin’s A flat Ballade to them. In the same year, when appearing on the radio programme Desert Island Discs his first choice as one of his records to take to the imaginary island was a famous June 1940 speech of Churchill.

He played in public until his death in London in 1963 at the age of 73.

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