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Beethoven\ Beethoven's Tempest Sonata mvt. 1 -- Wilhelm Kempff
Posted by: TheGreatPerformers

Video duration: 311 seconds

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Opus 31 No. 2
go to movement 3 for a bio of Kempff
"Just read Shakespeare's The Tempest", said Beethoven when he was asked about this piece (and the Appassionata, Op. 57)---So reports Anton Schindler, who is not the most trustworthy source.

recorded in Paris, 1968
Beethoven\ Beethoven's Tempest Sonata mvt. 2 -- Wilhelm Kempff
Posted by: TheGreatPerformers

Video duration: 424 seconds

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Opus 31 No. 2,
go to movement 3 for a bio of Kempff
recorded in Paris, 1968
Mozart - The Magic Flute - end of opera (duet and chorus) Mozart - The Magic Flute - end of opera (duet and chorus)
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Video duration: 579 seconds

duet: "Papagena! Papagena!"
recitative and chorus: "Nur stille...Die Strahlen der Sonne"
Barbara Kilduff as Papagena
Manfred Hemm as Papageno
Kurt Moll as Sarastro
James Levine and the Met Orch (1991)
Dizzy Gillespie - \"Salt Peanuts\" - 1947 Dizzy Gillespie - "Salt Peanuts" - 1947
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Video duration: 235 seconds

Dizzy played for Lucky Millinder's band in the early '40s. It was a riff this band played, after a Dizzy solo in the tune "Little John Special", that Dizzy developed into his tune "Salt Peanuts".
who are the sidemen here?
Is that Max Roach on drums, TheApeLad?
Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven\ Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven's Sonata 27, Op 90, mvt. 1
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Video duration: 328 seconds

Beethoven Piano Sonata 27 in E minor, op 90
filmed the year of Beethoven's bicentennial, 1970, in a studio at the ORTF, January 19. Kempff (November 25, 1895 -- May 23, 1991) was 75 years old.
He always seems to find so much warmth in Beethoven.