The Decca legacy of Wilhelm Kempff, one of the greatest piano poets of the last century. Kempff is known for good reason as a Beethoven interpreter of sublime simplicity, with several cycles of the concertos and sonatas, all recorded for DG. He began recording as early as 1918, however, and made records for Polydor before the war and for Decca in the 1950s. While his DG recordings have rarely disappeared from the catalog, his legacy on other labels has never been as comprehensively documented as on this newly remastered set from Eloquence. Kempff's Polydor recordings of Beethoven sonatas with partners such as violinist Georg Kulenkampff (the "Kreutzer" sonata) and cellists Pablo Casals and Paul Grümmer are offered as "historical" appendices. These newly remastered recordings add significantly to our understanding of Kempff as an artist with extraordinarily broad interests and creative power. The same is true of his Decca estate, which should dispel the persistent myth that he was primarily a Beethoven pianist. in 1950 he began recording the solo works of Brahms on 78s, with repertoire that he then recorded again for LP in 1953. In the 1953 sessions he also recorded the composer's late piano music, which few pianists portrayed as accurately as Kempff. Of interest to many will be previously unreleased material (Rameau, Brahms) as well as Kempff's first - and extremely rare - recordings for Decca of music by J. S. Bach. In the essay accompanying the box, Alfred Brendel explains how much he especially appreciates the pianist's Liszt recordings. "When he is at his best, he plays more beautifully than any of us."
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