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Ich kenne William Masselos (1920-1992) (Wiki, Discogs) noch praktisch gar nicht, aber das lässt sich allein schon des Repertoires wegen höchst interessant an! Aus dem Nachruf der NY Times: (24. Oktober 1992, S. 1):
In musical circles, Mr. Masselos was one of the most respected pianists of his time. He played the premiere performances of Charles Ives’s Piano Sonata No. 1 (in 1949, 40 years after it was written) and of Aaron Copland’s most ambitious work for keyboard, „Piano Fantasy“ (1957). He commissioned and played the premiere performance of Ben Weber’s Piano Concerto (1961). Mr. Masselos also played, penetratingly, music by composers as divergent as Brahms, Schumann, Griffes and Satie. Because he felt that concertgoing had become ritualized, he experimented with programs of unusual length and scope. In 1969, for example, he offered a three-and-a-half-hour concert at Carnegie Hall that included works by Dane Rudhyar, Ives, Webern, Copland, Ben Weber, Schumann, Satie and Chopin, punctuated with four intermissions. The audience was invited to come and go as it pleased, to enjoy or avoid the musical schools of their choice. ‚Unostentatious Manner‘ „He always was one of the better American pianists,“ Harold C. Schonberg wrote in The New York Times after Mr. Masselos’s marathon concert. „Now he has developed into a great one. He plays in a rather unostentatious manner, and that may count against him on the circuit, where pianists put on a big show. But he has everything. To look over some of the virtues: tone, technique, musicianship, style, imagination, sensitivity. That will do for a start.“ […] He was a regular participant in the WNYC American Music Festivals from 1946 through the mid-50’s. He made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1952, playing the Brahms Concerto in D minor under the direction of Dimitri Mitropoulos. He worked with many conductors, among them Pierre Monteux and Leonard Bernstein.
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/24/arts/william-masselos-is-dead-at-72-a-pianist-who-loved-diversity.html
— Bei Prohaska warte ich auf die CD, bin da ja quasi an der Quelle
Habe dies als Vinyl (+irgendwo als CD-R)
Ausgezeichnet …. seine anderen Einspielungen für RCA kenne ich gar nicht ….
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