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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Artistas semelhantes
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William Kapell : Complete Recordings 1944-1953
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 04/03/1998
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William Kapell Edition, Vol. 1: Chopin: Mazurkas
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 04/01/1999
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William Kapell Edition, Vol. 5: Beethoven: Concerto No.2; Schubert; Liszt; Schumann; Brahms
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 01/01/1990
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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 - Lançado por Artemisia em 01/10/2021
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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 - Lançado por Naxos em 15/04/2002
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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 - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 01/01/1990
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Jascha Heifetz, violon
Jascha Heifetz, Benno Moiseiwitsch, William Kapell, Arthur Rubinstein
Chamber Music - Lançado por Naxos em 28/02/2005
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Dimtri Mitropoulos conducts Brahms
William Kapell, Dimtri Mitropoulos, New York Philharmonic
Classical - Lançado por G.O.P. em 30/09/2021
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William Kapell Edition, Vol. 2: Chopin: Sonatas Nos. 2 and 3; Mendelssohn; Schumann; Mozart
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 01/09/1998
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Rachmaninov & Khachaturian: Piano Concertos (1944, 1951)
William Kapell, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy
Concertos - Lançado por Music and Arts Programs of America em 04/11/2002
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William Kapell Edition, Vol. 3: Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Shostakovich: 3 Preludes
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 01/01/1990
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Piano Music
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 12/06/2001
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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 - Lançado por Naxos em 01/07/2005
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William Primrose Collection, Vol. 2: Brahms
William Primrose, William Kapell, Gerald Moore, Joseph Kahn, Unknown Artist
Chamber Music - Lançado por DOREMI em 14/03/2000
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Kapell reDiscovered
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 30/04/2008
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William Kapell Edition, Vol. 4: Khachaturian: Concerto; Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3; Shostakovich: 3 Preludes
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 01/01/1990
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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 - Lançado por Naxos em 18/10/2001
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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 - Lançado por Stradivarius em 06/09/2019
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Chopin: 17 Mazurkas (Mono Version)
Classical - Lançado por BNF Collection em 01/01/1956
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William Kapell in Performance (1949, 1953)
William Kapell, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Léopold Stokowski
Classical - Lançado por Music and Arts Programs of America em 03/07/2012
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100+ Piano Classics
World - Lançado por Classic Music International em 09/11/2010
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