Listening room., Robert Sherman interviews Alfred Brendel, 1985-04-17

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Title
Listening room., Robert Sherman interviews Alfred Brendel, 1985-04-17
Additional title: Robert Sherman interviews Alfred Brendel
Additional title: Listening room (Radio program)
Names
Brendel, Alfred (Interviewee)
Brendel, Alfred (Performer)
Levine, James, 1943- (Conductor)
Sherman, Robert, 1932- (Interviewer)
Cleveland Quartet (Performer)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Performer)
WQXR (Radio station : New York, N.Y.) (Distributor)
Collection

Margaret Carson audio-visual materials

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1985-04-17
Table of Contents
Musical works played during the interview. The Trout quintet, Scherzo / Schubert (Brendel ; Members of The Cleveland Quartet) -- Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este / Liszt (Brendel) -- Impromptu op. 935, no. 2 in A flat major / Schubert (Brendel) - Finale of Piano concerto no. 1 / Beethoven (Brendel ; Chicago Symphony Orchestra ; James Levine, conductor)
Library locations
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LTC-A 1557
Topics
Brendel, Alfred -- Interviews
Piano music
Pianists
Quintets (Piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass)
Concertos (Piano)
Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. Quintets, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, D. 667, A major. Scherzo
Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886. Années de pèlerinage. 3e année, Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este
Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. Impromptus, piano, D. 935. No. 2
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Concertos, piano, orchestra, no. 1, op. 15, C major. Rondo
Genres
Music
Interviews
Notes
Source note: Title from original cassette label.
Venue: Recorded 1985 April 11 Broadcast on WQXR 1985 April 17 New York, N.Y.
Acquisition: Gift; Margaret Carson, 1992.
Physical Description
Audiocassette
Extent: 1 audiocassette (approximately 55 min.) : analog, stereo
Description
Part 1, Part 2 (00:00-15:39). Radio interview with Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist, poet and author, who is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time. Brendel discusses the composers, whose music he likes to play such as Haydn, Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven and about various aspects of their musical works; his writings; his concert [1985] tour in the USA; and his new recordings. Recordings of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt piano works performed by Brendel solo as well as with orchestra are played during the interview. Part 2 (15:40-27:27). Excerpt from an interview with an unidentified violinist.
Type of Resource
Sound recording
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 914242189
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20739203
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d218e8b0-b8fd-0133-b054-60f81dd2b63c
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Listening room." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1985. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d5af2a30-b8fd-0133-8e0d-60f81dd2b63c

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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Listening room." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 8, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d5af2a30-b8fd-0133-8e0d-60f81dd2b63c

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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (1985). Listening room. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d5af2a30-b8fd-0133-8e0d-60f81dd2b63c

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Listening room.