Nancy Green Frederick Moyer Rachmaninov Tchaikovsky Vinyl LP Record VG+ SIGNED

Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1985 Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Nancy Green, Frederick Moyer – Play Rachmaninov Cello Sonata / Tchaikovsky Pezzo Capriccioso Vinyl LP Record VG+ Record Grade per Goldmine Standard: VG+ Autographed / Signed on back by Frederick Moyer Includes photos & literature as shown SIDE ISergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943):SONATA IN G MINOR FOR PIANO AND CELLO, Op. 191.Lento-Allegro moderate 13:522.Allegro scherzando6:153.Andante6:12SIDE II4. Allegro mossoPeter Uy itch TchaikovskyPEZZO CAPRICCIOSfDifficult personal circumstances, a spirit of renewal, andcoincidence relate the two works presented on this record.Although both were composed within approximately the sameperiod by composers from similar backgrounds, Tchaikovsky’sPezzo Capriccioso was a late but brief work by an establishedmaster while Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata was an early ex-tended effort by a promising young pianist.• • •Rachmaninov, despite his renown as a performer, alwaysregarded himself as a composer, later even resenting his publicimage as a piano virtuoso. He had shown early promise andhad achieved early acclaim as a composer, most notablyfor his C# Minor Prelude, written when he was only twentyyears old.But his personal development as a composer was not withoutdifficulty. The public failure of his First Symphony in 1897 wasa severe blow to him. He developed serious self-doubts and,though only twenty-four years old, regarded himself a failureas a composer. Abandoning work on his next symphony he wasunable to compose anything substantial for the next three years.In 1899 Rachmaninov travelled to England for his first ofmany concert tours outside of Russia. His success on that touras pianist, composer, and conductor earned him an invitation toreturn at a later date to perform his First Piano Concerto. Rach-maninov accepted the return engagement but, dissatisfied withthat concerto, promised to write another especially for his nextvisit.Upon his return to Russia, however, Rachmaninov fell backinto his previous malaise, unable to compose. His spirits were solow that a friend of his family arranged for him to meet and talkwith Leo Tolstoy, who, it was hoped, might inspire Rachmaninovto break out of his depression. The meeting was disastrous.Tolstoy was unsympathetic to the sensitive young man, evensarcastic. The encounter depressed Rachmaninov even further,and it became evident he needed professional help.At that time Rachmaninov’s aunt was receiving hypnotictreatments from Dr. Nicholai Dahl, an accomplished amateurviolinist, who quite naturally was sympathetic to the youngcomposer. From January to April 1900 Rachmaninov visitedDahl each day. Improvement was steady, even dramatic. Feelingrenewed and self-confident Rachmaninov began work on hisSecond Piano Concerto and completed his only Cello Sonata.On December 12, 1901, one month after the premiere of theSecond Piano Concerto, the Cello Sonata was first performedby the composer and his cellist friend Anatoly Brandukov, towhom the sonata was dedicated.lor foiAfter its premiere Rachmaninov’si MPiano and Cello, Op. 19, was acclaimed equal in stati,rei to hislSecond Piano Concerto and a major contribution tosonata repertoire. As one would expect in a sonata by a com-poser with such pianistic gifts, the piano writing is extremelyelaborate, frequently taking the lead in the statement of musicalideas. At other times its intricate counterpoint and rich har-monies provide a luxuriant support for the cello’s expansive andsoaring melodies. The work fully exploits the sonorities of bothinstruments.In April 1887 following a relatively dry creative period of twoto three years—his Fourth Symphony had been completed ap-proximately ten years earlier; his Manfred Symphony had ap-peared in 1885—Tchaikovsky set off for a holiday in theCaucasus, travelling down the Volga River to meet his brothersin Borzhom. In relaxed surroundings and with renewed inspira-tion he worked daily on his orchestration of four Mozart worksto appear in a suite entitled "Mozartiana,” premiered in Moscowthat same year.After two months Tchaikovsky’s working vacation was in-terrupted by a telegram calling him to Aachen, where his friendKondratyev was critically ill. Tchaikovsky left immediately,travelled the nearly two thousand miles to attend his dyingfriend, and while there those six weeks, a traumatic time filledwith “horrible infernal homesickness and impatience to thepoint of despair to get away,” composed his Pezzo Capriccioso,completing it on August 26, 1887.It will be immediately apparent to those who listen betweenthe lines that this work is not at all a whimsical piece, as its titlesuggests, but rather a work filled with a melancholy thatretains the heart and pain from which it flowed.Upon his return to Russia Tchaikovsky sent the PezzoCapriccioso to his publisher J urgenson and asked Fitzenhagen,the dedicatee of Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, to advisehim on the cello writing. Pezzo Capriccioso, however, was dedi-cated to Fitzenhagen’s twenty-eight-year-old protege and Tchai-kovsky’s ex-theory student, Anatoly Brandukov, the samecellist who fourteen years later was to premiere the RachmaninovSonata in G Minor for Piano and Cello, Op. 19.NANCY GREEN was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where shebegan her cello studies at the age of eight and made her first publicappearance the following year. She studied with Leonard Rose andLynn Harrell at the Juilliard School in New York and participated inmaster classes of Mstislav Rostropovich. After her graduation in 1977from the Juilliard School Ms. Green was awarded a Lusk Memorial Fel-lowship to study with Jacqueline du Pre in London. She continued herstudies with Johannes Goritzki in Dusseldorf, West Germany, whereshe now resides.Ms. Green won the Concert Artists Guild Award, which led to hercritically acclaimed recital debut at Carnegie Recital Hall, and wasamong the top prize winners in the 1978 J. S. Bach and 1979 Washing-ton International Competitions.Nancy Green has performed extensively on the concert stage, onradio and on television in the United States, Europe, and the Far East.She is an active chamber musician as cellist in the Florestan Trio andin the Green/Kacso Duo with Diana Kacso, pianist. Upcoming engage-ments include recitals in Spain and Majorca and a tour of NorthCarolina with pianist Frederick Moyer.Ms. Green is presently solo cellist with the German ChamberAcademy of Dusseldorf.FREDERICK MOYER, of Wayland, Massachusetts, attendedthe Curtis Institute and Indiana University and studied with TheodoreLettvin, Eleanor Sokoloff, and Menahem Pressler of the Beaux ArtsTrio. At Tanglewood he participated in master classes taught by AndreWatts and during the summer of 1977 studied with Leon Fleisher.Mr. Moyer’s extensive and varied concert experience includes ap-pearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia andMinnesota Orchestras, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Opera Orchestraof Genoa, and the Boston Pops Orchestra. In 1978 he toured Japan assoloist with the Japan Philharmonic and Sapporo Symphony Orches-tras. His 1983 world tour took him across the United States to HongKong, India, Greece, and Japan, where he once again toured with theJapan Philharmonic.Recent engagements include appearances with the MilwaukeeSymphony Orchestra, debut recitals in Boston and Worcester, Massa-chusetts, as part of the International Artists Series, and a three-monthtour of Australia, East Asia, China, and Japan. His appearances inIndonesia and Thailand were sponsored by the Arts America Programof the USIA; his trip to China was funded by the Astral Foundationof Philadelphia and New York. LP439

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