1968 Carlo Maria Giulini Clifford Curzon Brahms New Philharmonia concert program

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1968 Carlo Maria Giulini Clifford Curzon Brahms New Philharmonia concert program 1968 Carlo Maria Giulini Clifford Curzon Brahms New Philharmonia concert program Original printed programme for two 1968 all Brahms concerts given by the New Philharmonia under Giulini . The solo pianist in both was Clifford Curzon Royal Festival Hall, London Sunday 21 April, 1968 at 7.30pmBrahms Symphony No. 3 Brahms Piano Concerto No.1Thursday 25 April, 1968 at 8pm Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 Brahms Symphony No. 2 Clifford Curzon solo pianoCarlo Maria Giulini conductor New Philharmonia Orchestra leader Desmond Bradley (Hon. President : Dr. Otto Klemperer; Artistic Adviser : The Earl of Harewood) Programme notes William Mann; biographical notes with full page photos for Giulini (Evan Senior) and Curzon (Lotte Meitner-Graf)Complete list of members of the orchestra includes Thomas Carter, Desmond Heath, Albert Cayzer, Gerald Drucker, Gareth Morris, Gwydion Brooke and Nicholas Busch Advertisements Inside front cover, full details of ten forthcoming concerts under Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leopold Stokowksi, Claudio Abbado, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos and Rafael Kubelik, with soloists Christa Ludwig, Janet Baker, Bruno-Leonardo Gelber, Carlos Villa, James King, Rostropovich, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and John Ogdon (programmes included Mahler, Bruckner, Liszt Scriabin, Berlioz and Schoenberg)Steinway & Sons - Clifford Curzon endorses The Piano of International Fame - "Listening to great piano music on the Steinway can be likened to hearing Shakespeare through the voice of a great actor" 28 pages + covers. 9½" x 7¼" (24cm x 18cm)Condition : Excellent. Minimal wear to covers. Date written neatly in pencil in very small figures to top right of front cover. Contents all clean and bright. A very nice copy I will package carefully and am happy to post worldwide : UK £1.50, Europe £2.75, Worldwide £4 (Postage combined and reduced for multiple purchases posted together) Please see also my other classical concert & opera programmes program programm programmheft 60s 60's 1960s 1960's nineteen sixties From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Sir Clifford Michael Curzon (1907 – 1982) was an English pianist.Clifford Michael Siegenberg was born in London to Michael and Constance Mary Siegenberg (née Young). The family soon afterwards changed their name to Curzon.Curzon studied at the Royal Academy of Music where he won the prestigious Macfarren Gold medal in 1924, at the age of 17, Curzon was the youngest-ever pupil to have been accepted into the senior school. In the same year he was made one of seven sub-professors, and completed his studies in 1926.His public debut was at a Prom in 1923, when he played a Bach triple concerto under Henry Wood. Between 1928 and 1930 he took further instruction from Artur Schnabel in Berlin. He then studied under Wanda Landowska and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He toured throughout Europe and the United States.In 1931 Curzon married the American harpsichordist and pianist, Lucille Wallace. The Curzons had no children of their own, but when the great soprano Maria Cebotari died (aged 39) in Vienna in 1949, they adopted her two orphaned sons. In 1953 Curzon received a CBE and in 1977 he was knighted. In 1980 he received the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal.Curzon was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart and Schubert. Even though he left a considerable recording legacy, his distaste for recordings was well known, and he very often prohibited the release to the public of records which he felt were not up to his best standard. In his earlier years he had been noted for his championing of modern music; Lennox Berkeley's Piano Sonata is dedicated to him. Later, he tended to stay with the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Austro-German repertoire.His uncle was Albert Ketèlbey, and he described his childhood to an inte... read more

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