Research Catalog
Listening room.
- Title
- Listening room. Robert Sherman interviews Alfred Brendel, 1985-04-17.
- Publication
- 1985.
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Margaret Carson audio-visual materials.
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately 55 minutes) : digital, stereo.
- Summary
- Part 1, Part 2 (00:00-15:39). Radio interview with Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist, poet and author, who is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time. Brendel discusses the composers, whose music he likes to play such as Haydn, Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven and about various aspects of their musical works; his writings; his concer [1985] tour in the USA; and his new recordings. Recordings of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt piano works performed by Brendel solo as well as with orchestra are played during the interview.
- Part 2 (15:40-27:27). Excerpt from an interview with unidentified violinist.
- Alternative Title
- Robert Sherman interviews Alfred Brendel
- Margaret Carson audio-visual materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Radio interviews.
- Note
- Title from original cassette label.
- Streaming files transferred from original audiocassettes.
- Access (note)
- Access to original items restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at the NYPL Research Libraries.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Archival original: (1 audiocassette : analog, stereo) in *LTC-A 1557.
- Source (note)
- Margaret Carson
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of: Margaret Carson audio-visual materials, *L(Special) 92-23.
- Contents
- Musical works played during the interview. The Trout quintet, Scherzo / Schubert (Brendel ; Members of The Cleveland Quartet) -- Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este / Liszt (Brendel) -- Impromptu op. 935, no. 2 in A flat major / Schubert (Brendel) - Finale of Piano concerto no. 1 / Beethoven (Brendel ; Chicago Symphony Orchestra ; James Levine, conductor)
- Call Number
- *LTC-A 1557
- OCLC
- 914242189
- Title
- Listening room. Robert Sherman interviews Alfred Brendel, 1985-04-17.
- Publisher
- 1985.
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States.
- Type of Content
- spoken wordperformed music
- Type of Medium
- audiocomputer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Performer
- Alfred Brendel, interviewee and pianist ; Robert Sherman, interviewer.
- Event
- Recorded 1985 April 11 Broadcast on WQXR 1985 April 17 New York, N.Y.
- Access
- Access to original items restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at the NYPL Research Libraries.
- Additional Formats
- Archival original: (1 audiocassette : analog, stereo) in *LTC-A 1557.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of: Margaret Carson audio-visual materials, *L(Special) 92-23.
- Source
- Gift; Margaret Carson, 1992.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Brendel, Alfred, interviewee.Brendel, Alfred, performer.Container of (work): Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. Quintets, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, D. 667, A major. Scherzo.Container of (work): Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886. Années de pèlerinage. 3e année, Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este.Container of (work): Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. Impromptus, piano, D. 935. No. 2.Container of (work): Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Concertos, piano, orchestra, no. 1, op. 15, C major. Rondo.Levine, James, 1943-2021, conductor.Sherman, Robert, 1932- interviewer.Cleveland Quartet, performer.Chicago Symphony Orchestra.WQXR (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)Carson, Margaret, 1911-2007, donor.
- Added Title
- Margaret Carson audio-visual materials.
- Found In:
- Margaret Carson audio-visual materials.
- Research Call Number
- *LTC-A 1557