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Classical Vinyl Album

Artist:Wilhelm Kempff
Title:3 Intermezzi Op.117 - 6 Klavierstucke Op.118 - 4 Klavierstucke Op. 119
Format:Vinyl Album
Label:  Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft
Country:Germany
Date:Jul 1964
Catalogue:18 903 LPM
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Community: 1 Owns
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ComposerJohannes Brahms
SoloistWilhelm Kempff


TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
SIDE 1 - 3 Intermezzi Op.117
01Wilhelm Kempff Nr. 1 Es-dur - In E Flat MajorJohannes BrahmsRate
02Wilhelm KempffNr. 2 B-moll - In B Flat MajorJohannes BrahmsRate
03Wilhelm KempffNr.3 Cis-moll - In C Sharp MajorJohannes BrahmsRate
6 Klavierstucke Op.118
04Wilhelm Kempff Nr.1 Intermezzo A-moll - In A MinorJohannes BrahmsRate
05Wilhelm KempffNr.2 Intermezzo A-dur - In A MajorJohannes BrahmsRate
06Wilhelm KempffNr.3 Ballade G-moll - In G MinorJohannes BrahmsRate
07Wilhelm KempffNr.4 Intermezzo F-moll - In F MinorJohannes BrahmsRate
SIDE 2
08Wilhelm Kempff Nr.5 Romanze F-dur - In F MajorJohannes BrahmsRate
09Wilhelm KempffNr.6 Intermezzo Es-moll - In E Flat MinorJohannes BrahmsRate
4 Klavierstucke Op.119
10Wilhelm Kempff Nr.1 Intermezzo H-moll - In B MinorJohannes BrahmsRate
11Wilhelm KempffNr.2 Intermezzo E-moll - In E MinorJohannes BrahmsRate
12Wilhelm KempffNr.3 Intermezzo C-dur - In C MajorJohannes BrahmsRate
13Wilhelm KempffNr.4 Rhapsodie Es-dur - In E Flat MajorJohannes BrahmsRate


Notes

Mono LP.

Wilhelm Kempff: Piano.

Artistic Supervision: Dr. Manfred Richter.
Recording Engineer: Heinz Wildhagen.

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Comments and Reviews
 
Magic Marmalade
14th Dec 2016
 something very odd about this title...

...It seems to be an exception to the rule that the stereo version is both rarer, and by virtue of that, more expensive.

You can find listings for the "Red Stereo" on popsike, and a couple can be found on ebay for around the thirty quid mark (and under)... but no mono copies can be found except on discogs, where there are 3 listings from £40 - to over £100!

(where the stereo listing on discogs starts from about £6+)

What weirdness is this?

... I only wish my copy was in better condition than it is as regards the cover :(
 

 
Magic Marmalade
28th Jan 2016
 Review
Perfect rainy day music.

If you find yourself stuck indoors, just staring out the window at the rain, this could be a perfect piece of music to listen to.

You could easily settle back and read a book with this on in the background without it being a distraction.

It's a solo piano recital by Wilhelm Kempff.... just him, alone with a piano.

No other instrumentation.

In fact, it would be a great thing to listen to if you were studying piano at a high level I should imagine, or maybe even learning, as it is delicate, meditative music with an occasional flourish. It begins very delicately, and is a little on the quiet side, which I initially thought was the recording itself being that quiet.... but by degrees it lifts as it moves through the pieces so rather it's just the delicacy of his piano playing at the outset.

The pieces become only a little more vigorous as it goes, which leads nicely to the vinyl and pressing itself:

Because curiously, side 1 comes in at about 28 mins. whereas side 2 only has about 12 minutes of music, to give a total of approximately 40 minutes of music.

... this great length for side 1 I attribute to the sparse music being undemanding of the grooves, so they could press it with a "tighter spiral", and get more on it, and so side 2, which has a little more purpose in Kempff's playing, and a little more weight, they opened it up a little more... of course, they could have comfortably put more on side 2, but the length and number of the pieces by Brahms decided this.

As you'd expect, the vinyl is nice, super silent around the piano, with room for power where it's needed (as much as this is the case), and has great detail in the quieter parts.

I've had a little mosey on the web, and this record is quite a difficult one to find online... not that it may necessarily be considered rare in the sense that it'll give you goose bumps on your eyeballs, but rare in that it just doesn't seem to be generally considered at all (There are probably hundreds of copies languishing in charity store record bins all around, but I did find a listing on Amazon for a stereo version...

... but this being a mono or stereo record I think in this instance is a redundant point, as it is only one instrument that encompasses the entire audible "field of view".

I may be listening to this quite regularly actually.

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