Rudolf Serkin: A Life (PDF)

Rudolf Serkin: A Life, by Stephen Lehmann and Marion Faber
Oxford University Press | December 2002 | ISBN-10: 0195130464 | 344 pages | PDF | 4.6 MB

The original edition included a CD, which is not accessible, we have
replaced with a selection of signature recordings, including:
The Bush / Serkin Duo-Public Performances 1934-1949 (3CD)
Mozart Piano Concerto no.12, 20, German Dances, etc. BBC Legends
Beethoven Piano Sonata no.29 & 31, BBC Legends
Mozart Piano Concerto no.14 & 21, March in D major, etc BBC Legends
Bach, Capriccio BWV993, Reger- Variation and Fuge on a theme of J.S. Bach, etc BBC Legends

Starred Review Given a self-effacing biographical subject--"All I did," Serkin (1903-91) averred, "was practice, practice, practice"--Lehmann and Faber exploit the publicness of being one of an era's finest pianists to produce this absorbing account of a musician qua musician. The first three chapters trace Serkin's life but include remarkably few anecdotes of family and friendship. Serkin's exceptional talent was recognized very early, and he was accepted very early by his peers, which for him meant becoming inextricably involved with the German violinist Adolf Busch (1892-1952). Serkin was Busch's preferred pianist in duo, orchestral, and chamber performances; in 1935 he married Busch's daughter; and he kept Busch before the public after their intertwined families fled from the Nazis to the U.S., where his star flared as Busch's dimmed. The remaining three chapters focus on Serkin's performing, teaching, and directing of the summer Marlboro Festival, which he and Busch founded to nurture chamber music performance in America. Between these latter chapters, excerpts of conversations with Serkin pupils and associates fill out the portrayal of him as rather a high priest of music, one distinguished by his belief that the greatest music was always greater than any performer of it, including himself. A profoundly rewarding book--not least for the accompanying CD of previously unissued public performances--about a profoundly influential musician. Ray Olson


C O N T E N T S
CD Contents xiii
Introduction 3
P A R T - O N E
Chapter One Beginnings: Eger and Vienna 11
Chapter Two “The Venerable Firm of Busch & Serkin” 40
Chapter Three American Pianist 77
P A R T- T WO
Chapter Four Performing 117
VOICES Richard Goode, Thomas Frost, Claude Frank
and Lilian Kallir
Chapter Five Teaching 171
VOICES Eugene Istomin, Seymour Lipkin, Lee Luvisi,
Ruth Laredo
Chapter Six Marlboro 217
VOICES Philipp Naegele, Blanche Moyse, Arnold Steinhardt
Epilogue: 1991 263
Carnegie Hall Recitals, 1937–1987 267
The Recorded Legacy of Rudolf Serkin 273
A Discography by Paul Farber
Notes 315
Selected Bibliography 329
Index 331

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