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The repertoire is very much Petri’s canonical one – the last Beethoven sonatas, Busoni, Chopin as well as Bach-Busoni and Bach-Petri. He was always a charming exponent of Gluck, a more unexpected one here of Medtner. Of Liszt there’s but a fleeting glimpse – Venezia e Napoli, taped in the last year of his life.
Egon Petri. Pianist Egon Petri (1881-1962) was a Dutch citizen, born in Hannover, Germany, to Dutch parents. He first learned violin from his father, Henri Petri, who had been a student of Joseph Joachim, one of the most significant violinists of the 19th century. He started piano at age 7, and continued his violin playing, eventually becoming ...
Egon Petri (Piano, Arranger) March 23, 1881 - Hannover, Germany. May 27, 1962 - Berkeley, California, USA. The Eminent German-born pianist Egon Petri was of Dutch descent. His father was Henri Wilhelm Petri (1856-1914), a Dutch violinist who served as concert-master in Hannover and of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. His mother was a singer.
Nov 21, 2022 · (A fragment from a performance, c.1941, in Washington, D.C. of part of the 3rd and 4th movements finds Petri less involved, of interest for Petri’s sense of proportion.) Rosbaud again emerges as a remarkable architect. In 1954, Francis Poulenc stated: “The taste of music buffs little resembles that of professional musicians.
Nov 29, 2011 · By Jan Swafford. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The last thing anyone does or says has an inevitable fascination, poignancy, and poetry. The fascination only intensifies when that person is an artist ...
- Jan Swafford
Feb 7, 2022 · Veritas VM-116: Petri's "Last Recital" including music of Busoni, Liszt, Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 International Piano Archives IPA-104: Bach/Busoni Chaconne (from 78s) Westminster XWN-18255 : Beethoven: Moonlight, Appassionata, and Pathétique piano sontatas
The last three variations build with intensity and excitement, culminating in a suave and securely dispatched Fugue. Petri similarly transforms the Paganini Variations’ cruel technical hurdles into pure music as opposed to exercises. In order to accommodate the work on two 12-inch 78s, Petri omitted most of the first-ending repeats.
