THE KURT APPELBAUM WESTMINSTER RECORDINGS-BEETHOVEN & SCHUBERT- 6 LP RECORDS
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THE KURT APPELBAUM WESTMINSTER RECORDINGS-BEETHOVEN & SCHUBERT- 6 LP RECORDS ALL IN SUPERB CONDITION! THESE MAY BE THE COMPLETE RECORDED OUTPUT OF A GREAT AND SOMEWHAT FORGOTTEN PIANIST AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR
SCHUBERT - SONATAS OP. 42 & 122, BEETHOVEN SONATAS OP. 10 #3, OP. 53 (WALDSTEIN), 31, 32, 9, 29 (HAMMERKLAVIER), 27 (MOONLIGHT), 31 #1 OP. 57 (APPASSIONATA), OP. 2 AND 111 OBITUARY FOR KURT APPELBAUMKurt Appelbaum, Pianist, 84 Student of Artur Schnabel
Published: February 1, 1990 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
Kurt Appelbaum, a pianist and teacher, died of a heart attack on Monday at St. Luke's Hospital. He was 84 years old and lived in Manhattan.
Mr. Appelbaum was born in Berlin and began playing the piano at the age of 4. He studied with the renowned German pianist Artur Schnabel, and made his debut in Berlin in 1930.
The pianist immigrated to New York in 1939, one year after a successful debut at Town Hall. He had an active concert career, specializing in the works of Beethoven and Schubert. In the late 1940's he began recording the 32 Beethoven Sonatas for Westminster Records, but the project was left incomplete when the company went out of business.
He had taught privately for the last 25 years.
WL 5075 (released in June 1951), gives a remarkable example of what was feasible as far as High Fidelity is concerned. It is amazing how clear and clean and well defined, and also how natural the sound of the grand piano is captured and engraved in this disc. The sleeve says "Copyright 1951" and at the time the extremely high sound quality was recognized by engineers, critics and record collectors alike. If the standard of technique was already that high in 1951, one wonders why not more records were produced in the same technical vein in the early years of the monaural record, and in the years thereafter? Well, of course, there were outstanding recordings already then, like the ones made for Mercury records by Robert C. Fine and the Mercury team. Westminster's recording quality in later years never reached that same height and as far as dynamics were concerned lost its superiority. In those years there were not many labels that could challenge the Westminster/Appelbaum sound.
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