William Kapell
William Kapell was one of the most promising American pianists of the post-War generation, producing a few recordings that have attained legendary status after his untimely death.
He studied in New York with Dorothea Anderson la Follett, and then at the Philadelphia Conservatory with Olga Samaroff. He went to the Juilliard School when she relocated there.
He won the Philadelphia Orchestra¹s youth competition and the Naumberg Award in 1941. He debuted in New York through his prize from the Naumberg Foundation. This debut recital won him the Town Hall Award for the outstanding concert of the year by an artist under thirty.
A national recital career quickly developed, leading to a recording contract with RCA Victor Red Seal records. One of his enthusiasms was for the recently-composed Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major by Soviet composer Aram Khachaturian. He played it frequently. Because it is an extroverted and flashy work, he got a reputation as a specialist in such music. His recorded legacy shows that he performed in the appropriate style from graceful renditions of Mozart to powerful Prokofiev.
After World War II he expanded his touring to cover the whole world. It was on his return from a tour of Australia that his airplane crashed into King¹s Mountain, near San Francisco.
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William Kapell : Complete Recordings 1944-1953
Classical - Released by RCA Red Seal on 4 Mar 1998
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William Kapell Edition, Vol. 1: Chopin: Mazurkas
Classical - Released by RCA Red Seal on 4 Jan 1999
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
William Kapell, The Robin Hood Dell Orchestra Of Philadelphia, Victorian Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, Sir Bernard Heinze
Classical - Released by Artemisia on 1 Oct 2021
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William Kapell Edition, Vol. 5: Beethoven: Concerto No.2; Schubert; Liszt; Schumann; Brahms
Classical - Released by RCA Red Seal on 1 Jan 1990
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William Kapell Edition
Classical - Released by RCA Red Seal on 29 Sep 1998
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RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Kapell) (1950-1951)
William Kapell, Philadelphia Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, William Steinberg, Fritz Reiner
Classical - Released by Naxos on 15 Apr 2002
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William Kapell Edition, Vol. 6: Bach: Partita No.4; Suite in A Minor; Debussy: Children's Corner; Scarlatti; Mozart; Albéniz; Chasins
Classical - Released by RCA Red Seal on 1 Jan 1990
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Jascha Heifetz, Benno Moiseiwitsch, William Kapell, Arthur Rubinstein
Chamber Music - Released by Naxos on 28 Feb 2005
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Dimtri Mitropoulos conducts Brahms
William Kapell, Dimtri Mitropoulos, New York Philharmonic
Classical - Released by G.O.P. on 30 Sep 2021
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William Kapell Edition, Vol. 2: Chopin: Sonatas Nos. 2 and 3; Mendelssohn; Schumann; Mozart
Classical - Released by RCA Red Seal on 1 Sep 1998
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Live Performances - First Three Releases (Restored)
Classical - Released by JSP ORIGINALS on 22 Sep 2017
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Rachmaninov & Khachaturian: Piano Concertos (1944, 1951)
William Kapell, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy
Concertos - Released by Music and Arts Programs of America on 4 Nov 2002
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William Kapell Edition, Vol. 3: Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Shostakovich: 3 Preludes
Classical - Released by RCA Red Seal on 1 Jan 1990
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BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 2 / SCHUBERT: Waltzes and Dances (Kapell)(1946-1952)
William Kapell, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Edmund Kurtz, Vladimir Golschmann
Classical - Released by Naxos on 1 Jul 2005
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William Kapell in Performance (1949, 1953)
William Kapell, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Léopold Stokowski
Classical - Released by Music and Arts Programs of America on 3 Jul 2012
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William Primrose Collection, Vol. 2: Brahms
William Primrose, William Kapell, Gerald Moore, Joseph Kahn, Unknown Artist
Chamber Music - Released by DOREMI on 14 Mar 2000
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Kapell reDiscovered
Classical - Released by RCA Red Seal on 30 Apr 2008
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William Kapell Edition, Vol. 4: Khachaturian: Concerto; Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3; Shostakovich: 3 Preludes
Classical - Released by RCA Red Seal on 1 Jan 1990
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PROKOFIEV, S.: Piano Concerto No. 3 / KHACHATURIAN, A.I.: Piano Concerto (Kapell) (1946, 1949)
William Kapell, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti, Serge Koussevitzky
Classical - Released by Naxos on 18 Oct 2001
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Brahms: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 3 - Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 1 (Live)
Pablo Casals, Arthur Grumiaux, Yehudi Menuhin, William Kapell, Eugene Istomin
Chamber Music - Released by Stradivarius on 6 Sep 2019
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