
Steinway Legends’ Wilhelm Kempff survey covers just about all of the composers central to the great pianist’s repertoire in carefully chosen recordings from different stages
This very generous Brahms collection has more complete works and less excerpts than some of the other titles in Deutsche Grammophon’s Panorama series. The program
BBC Legends’ fourth Wilhelm Kempff release preserves a recital that took place October 7, 1967 at Manchester University. It includes one major work that Kempff
Wilhelm Kempff’s youthful experience as an organist informs every measure of his Bach transcriptions in their linear clarity and registral sensitivity. We can readily perceive
Beethoven’s “Emperor” concerto fared well in the 78-rpm era, with distinguished editions from Backhaus, Gieseking, Fischer, Long, and two from Schnabel. Wilhelm Kempff’s shellac version
Wilhelm Kempff’s concerto recordings from the 1950s (gathered here complete) all testify to the pianist’s intimate style of music making and ravishing tonal palette. His
Hot on the heels of Wilhelm Kempff’s 1958 live Salzburg performances of the Brahms F minor Sonata and Schumann C major Fantasy on Orfeo comes
The subtle, intimately scaled sonority we usually associate with Wilhelm Kempff’s commercial recordings gains amplitude, dynamism, and sheer brawn in this previously unreleased 1958 Salzburg
This DG Collectors Edition 4-CD set brings together a significant number of Schumann’s solo piano works, recorded at the Hannover Beethovensaal between 1967 and 1972.
Wilhelm Kempff approaches Bach’s Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother, the D major Toccata, and 12 Preludes and Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier