Robert Casadesus
Robert Casadesus was the quintessential French musician, a passionate perfectionist who carried the Gallic virtues of precision, clarity, and elegance into the mid-twentieth century as an embodiment of the living spirit of classicism -- precision animated by passion, clarity attained through sensuous scintillance, and elegance as the expression of the most lucidly aware animation. Born in Paris to a distinguished family of musicians -- his father and three uncles enjoyed careers as performers and composers -- Robert took first prize for piano at the Paris Conservatoire at age 14. Studies with Louis Diémer -- early enthusiast of the French clavicenistes, premiere soloist and dedicatee of Franck's Variations symphoniques for piano and orchestra -- graced Casadesus with the mantle of the inheritor. In 1921 he married fellow Diémer pupil Gabrielle (Gaby) L'Hôte. The following year he earned Ravel's friendship with his performance of Gaspard de la nuit, which led to European tours with the composer and legendary soprano Madeleine Grey. "You are a composer," Ravel wrote, "because you have the courage to play 'Gibet' as I imagined it, that is, as a slow piece...And virtuoso pianists do not want to play it like that. They double the tempo and make it much faster. That is why I think you are a composer." Indeed, Casadesus' catalog eventually embraced some 68 works, including seven symphonies, concertos for two and three pianos and orchestra, 27 chamber works, and 20 works for piano. It is music for connoisseurs, music of formal concision not devoid of passionate expression, but highly wrought, suggestive, and understated in, typically, lyrically attenuated slow movements, tender and strange, and conclusions of fastidious tumult. It is the antithesis of Mahler's confessional expansiveness, while Stravinsky's neo-Classical manner seems gimmicky and carnivalesque by comparison. Casadesus was a distinguished teacher, beginning his career as professor of piano at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau in 1921, and replacing Isidor Philipp as its head in 1935. But it is primarily as a touring pianist and recording artist that Casadesus is remembered, appearing throughout Europe and the United States over 2,000 times in a career spanning half a century, often in duo-piano recitals with his wife. His authoritative, exhilarating recordings of the Mozart piano concertos with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra, the Beethoven violin sonatas and the Franck Sonata with Zino Francescatti, Franck's Variations symphoniques and d'Indy's Symphonie cévenole with Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the piano works of Ravel -- to name but the most prominent -- are among the very greatest.
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 24 (Live)
Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Eugen Jochum, Edwin Fischer, Robert Casadesus
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Bach: Italian Concerto & Toccata and Fugue in E Minor & Partita No. 2
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 27 (Live)
Robert Casadesus, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Carl Schuricht
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Casadesus Plays Sonatas by Chopin, Mozart & Haydn
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Schumann: Fantasia - Chopin: Berceuse - Casadesus: 7 Préludes for Piano
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Schumann: Symphonic Etudes for Piano - Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 (Remastered)
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L'intégrale de la musique de piano de Maurice Ravel (Mono Version)
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.2013
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Mitropoulos, Francescatti and Casadesus in Concert
New York Philharmonic, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Robert Casadesus, Zino Francescatti
Klassik - Erschienen bei Archipel am 27.05.2008
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4
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Beethoven: Concertos pour piano Nos. 1 & 4 (Stereo Version)
Robert Casadesus, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1959
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Bach: Concerto Italien, BWV 971, Toccata, BWV 914 & Partita No. 2, BWV 826 (Mono Version)
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1960
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Weber & Mendelssohn: Orchestral Works
Sudwestfunkorchester Baden-Baden, Robert Casadesus, Yvonne Loriod, Hans Rosbaud
Klassik - Erschienen bei SWR Classic am 04.08.2017
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 - Ravel: Piano Concerto for the left Hand (Remastered)
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Robert Casadesus - The Early Recordings (Remastered)
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Bach: Concerto for 3 Keyboards & French Suite No. 6
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Bach & Casadesus: Concertos for 3 Pianos
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Robert Casadesus / Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York / Charles Münch play: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto pour piano n°21, K 467
Robert Casadesus, New York Philharmonic
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Piano Concertos - Beethoven, L. Van / Brahms, J. / Schumann, R. / Liszt, F. / Grieg, E. / Tchaikovsky, P.I. / Bach, J.S. / Mozart, W.A.
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Casadesus: Hommage á Chausson - Francescatti: 3 Preludes for Piano - Bach: Violin Sonata No. 2
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Casadesus: 3 Danses méditerranéennes - Chabrier: 3 Valses romantiques - Fauré: Dolly Suite (Remastered)
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Beethoven: Sonates pour piano Nos. 14, 23, 24 & 26 (Mono Version)
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1957
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