Van Cliburn: An American Wins In Russia
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Van Cliburn: An American Wins In Russia
Van Cliburn (piano)
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Release Date: Friday 8 January 2021
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Van Cliburn (1934 - 2013) was the first American contestant ever to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and he did it in 1958 - right in the middle of the 'Cold War'. His victory caused a sensation; the twenty-four-yearold was celebrated like a modern-day pop star. The recording he subsequently made in New York of Tchaikovsky´s Piano Concerto op. 23 remains to this day one of the best-selling records in the history of classical music. Van Cliburn retired almost entirely from active concert life in 1978 and died in 2013 of bone-marrow cancer. He was born Harvey Lavan, jr. in the state of Louisiana and received his piano training up to the age of 17 from his mother, a pianist who had learnt from the great Arthur Friedheim, a pupil of Liszt. He won numerous competitions both as a child and as an adolescent, and after winning first prize at the National Musical Festival in New York´s Carnegie Hall he initially continued his studies at the Juilliard School of Music.
Tracks:
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
Liszt: Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major)
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 'Appassionata'
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S178
Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47
Chopin: Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39
Chopin: Études (12), Op. 25
Chopin: Études (12), Op. 10
Chopin: Fantasia in F minor, Op. 49
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor'
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26
MacDowell: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Op. 23
Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major, K330
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82
Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies, S244 Nos. 1-19
Chopin: Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque'
Chopin: Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62 No. 1
Chopin: Fantasia in F minor, Op. 49
Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 7 in C sharp minor
Chopin: Études (12), Op. 10
Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47
Chopin: Waltzes (3), Op. 64
Chopin: Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
