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At 64.
How did Zoltan Kocsis get to be 64 so quickly?
Oh, right.
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R.I.P.
This was in the early-mid 80's, when he was in town performing and recording the Rachmaninoff concertos with de Waart and the SF Symphony (a set that still holds its own, IMO). How he made it across the bay to Berkeley, I don't know, but he was in the classical room, at the back of the main store (this was before Tower opened a separate classical store--how I miss it!). He was very modest and unassuming, and was just there shopping, like anyone else. He was happy that I recognized him, and he told me how much he enjoyed performing and recording with the orchestra. He especially praised Edo de Waart.
RIP.
Russell
I think I already posted about this, but it's amusing enough to post about again: in the Rachmaninoff Third concert I saw, one of the women violists in the orchestra simply could not get her eyes off of Kocsis for the entire performance - she must have had her part memorized. ;-)
Bartok solo piano music set.
Too young.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
We saw him play and conduct with the Hungarian State Orchestra about ten or so years ago. They did some of his orchestrations of Debussy songs. And back in the 80's, I saw him play a couple of Rachmaninoff Concertos with De Waart in San Fancisco, in preparation for the Philips Rachmaninoff set they made at that time. He also has a lot of good (and difficult!) transcriptions for piano.
You have to admire the breadth of things he did well - and not just in the field of pianism.
Streaming over TIDAL.
Absolutely one of the best pairings of the Liszt Concertos ever IMHO - up there with the Richter and Zimerman sets. And the Dohnanyi is incredible too. I guess this recording came from the days when Kocsis and Fischer were on good terms. I read that they later had a falling out, partly because of politics - although Fischer's words on Kocsis' death (in the articles you linked to) seemed to be genuinely felt and eloquent.
BTW, if you want to hear one of the wildest interpretations of the last movement of Schubert's Great C-major Symphony, check out Kocsis conducting it on uTube:
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