This album was recorded on November 26, 2007, at the Historischer Reitstadel in Neumarkt/Oberpfalz.
Performer Biography
Gerhard Oppitz's main interest is the classical romantic repertoire, but he has also devoted himself to 20th-century music, premiering several piano concertos.
Performer Biography
Gerhard Oppitz, the pianist on this album, began playing piano at age five and debuted with Mozart's Piano Concerto in D Minor at age eleven.
Performer Biography
Gerhard Oppitz has a particular fondness for presenting major groups of work cycles, including all solo works by Schubert and the complete piano works of Brahms.
Instruments
The piano used for this recording is a Steinway D, instrument number 493825, prepared by Leo H. Niedermeyer from Bayreuth.
Performer Biography
In 1977, Gerhard Oppitz won first prize at the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Israel, with Arthur Rubinstein himself heading the international jury.
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