Moonlight And Keyboard & Clair de Lune- Raymond Lewenthal

 

Clair de Lune

Moonlight And Keyboard

Raymond Lewenthal - Piano

Westminster Records XWN 18403

1957

Clair de Lune

Raymond Lewenthal - Piano

Westminster Records WST 14053

1957

From the back cover: Raymond Lewenthal was born in San Antonio, Texas. In 1945, while studying with Mme. Lydia Cherkassky, he won all three of the major competitions then being held in California at Los Angeles (judged by Bruno Walter), the Young Artist Contest of Occidental College, and the Gainsborough Award in San Francisco. He completed his studies as a full scholarship student with Mme. Olga Samaroff Stokowski at the Juilliard School of Music. In 1948 he made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Dimitri Mitropoulos, playing the Prokofieff Third Concerto, and an enthusiastic reception following his New York debut a few weeks later launching his career. Since his return to the concert stage following a nearly-fatal accident in 1953, Lewenthal has proved the truth of Bruno Walter's statement about him: "Lewenthal's is the nature of a virtuoso, yet his technical gifts do not prevent him from expressing spiritual qualities with deep feeling and understanding.

Clair de lune - Debussy

Liebestraum No. 3 - Liszt

Nocturne in E Flat, Op. 9, No. 2 - Chopin

Waltz in C Sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2 - Chopin

Nocturne in F Sharp Major, Op. 15, No. 2 - Chopin

Waltz in A Flat Major, Op. 39, No. 15 - Brahms

Moonlight Sonata, 1st movement - Beethoven

Greensleeves - Traditional, Arranged by Lewenthal

The Swan - Saint-Saens-Godowsky

How Fair this Spot - Rachmaninoff-Lewenthal

Romance - Rubinstein

Fantaisie-Impromptu, Op. 66 - Chopin

Elegie - Massenet

Serenade - Schubert-Liszt

Traumerei - Schumann