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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2018 17:52:56 GMT -5
I was surprised to see Vocalise missing here. It's appropriate that it should be acknowledged as one of Jackie's finest vocalizations, in my opinion. It's particularly noteworthy to me that having no knowledge of reading music, Jackie had to learn this long Rachmaninoff work by ear and commit it to memory, at age 14. It is not an easy piece of music, but requires executing some difficult intervals, which Jackie performs with typical ease, and a tremolo that twice highlights the music (1:20 and 4:23).
Jackie's shortened version performed at the Strathmore, Bethesda, MD, Oct. 10, 2015
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist and conductor.
"Rachmaninoff's beautiful Vocalise, Op.34 no.14, arranged for orchestra by the composer and conducted by the composer (recorded in the Victor recording studios, Camden, New Jersey, USA on 20 April 1929)".
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2018 19:45:29 GMT -5
"He had the secret of the golden, living tone which comes from the heart ... I was always under the spell of his glorious and inimitable tone which could make me forget my uneasiness about his too rapidly fleeting fingers and his exaggerated rubatos. There was always the irresistible sensuous charm, not unlike Kreisler's."
- Arthur Rubinstein
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Post by rob49 on May 19, 2018 20:37:03 GMT -5
"For professional pianists and amateurs alike, Arthur Rubinstein's artistry was a thing of wonder, a touch that combined exquisite control with a feeling of tremendous ease"
- Bryce Morrison
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Post by bounderdriver on May 19, 2018 20:41:09 GMT -5
For any Finlanders here..
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