1. Ruth Laredo, Classical Pianist - America's First Lady Of The American pianist. Includes discography, biography, sound clips, and reviews.Category Arts Music Instruments Keyboard Piano pianists L......Official Web Site of pianist ruth laredo, 'America's First Lady of the Piano.' Discography,biography, news, sound clips, and more for this renowned classical http://www.ruthlaredo.com/

"America's First Lady of the Piano" NY Daily News "Astonishing...a whip-cracking performance." The New York Times " A special blend of intensity and rare poetry. She played up a storm." The Washington Post "...one of the great American pianists." The Christian Science Monitor "...fearless, romantic pianism of the highest order." Esquire Magazine "She plays with refinement, showing remarkable control. Laredo has no competitor." Grammophone, London NOW AVAILABLE: Ruth Laredo Plays Ravel La Valse Sonatine Miroirs Prelude in A Minor Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn 25th Anniversary Concert Reviewed in The New York Times, September 15, 2001 "A Pianist With Sustenance at an Anniversary Concert" "'It was important for me to play,' Ms. Laredo said in a brief address to the audience before the concert. 'Great music gives us spiritual sustenance and gives us hope. It is in that spirit that I play tonight.' ...The sustenance that Ms. Laredo's rich program offered was on the order of a haute cuisine feast, set down with a pure heart " The New York Times CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE Concerts With Commentary at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (and throughout the U.S.)

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Artist's Biography Ruth Laredo Tuned in concert 5/7/77 (Norwalk, CT.) Ruth Laredo has achieved a reputation as one of the world's foremost pianist. A native of Detroit, Michigan, she studied with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute of Music and made her orchestral debut with Leopold Stokowski and the American Symphony Miss Laredo has appeared with most of the major U.S. orchestras including the New York Philharmonic , the Cleveland Orchestra , the Detroit Symphony , the Boston Symphony , the Philadelphia Orchestra and the National Symphony. Following a sensational debut with Boulez and the New York Philharmonic , she received reviews: "Smashing, sensational" (N.Y. Post). "Astonishing" (N.Y. Times), "Total triumph" (Byron Belt). The Newhouse Newspaper raved that she is "one of today"s dream keyboard artists." After a performance by Miss Laredo one reviewer stated, in the Tulsa Daily World, "Not only is she a concert pianist but she can also be said to be one of the few keyboard orchestrators of our time." Miss Laredo is widely recognized for her recordings of the complete Scriabin Sonatas and Preludes, as well as her the "best of the year,"

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Concert Review Rachmaninoff, Sergei Piano Concerto No. 2 in C-Minor, Op. 18. Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14. Ruth Laredo, Pianist. The San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Eduardo Garcia Barrios, Conductor. Majestic Theater, San Antonio, Texas, 16 October 1997. Ruth Laredo's rendering of Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto was excellent, and as this was the first time I heard it live, I was glad that it was she who was playing it. Although her reading of the score was a bit more formal than, say, a Rubinstein or Bolet, Laredo has this quality not much unlike Alexis Weissenberg does in the Rachmaninoff Third Concerto recording he made with Georges Pretre and the Chiacago Symphony in 1968. Her performance evokes in the listener a tenderness of feeling, especially in the second movement, that is not apparent in most performances. Most play this as though it is a musical cliche. Laredo, on the other hand, strikes every note as though each were a precious drop of a rare wine flowing from her fingertips, very sensuous and very dolcissimo . She plays the concerto with that quality of care few others even imagine possible - she can read the notes between the lines that elude other pianists. Further, she masterfully builds towards the climax in the third movement very forcefully, yet not pedantically; for her, this is no one-dimensional piece.

4. Sound Judgment - Ruth Laredo, Alexander Scriabin Detroiter ruth laredo established her reputation as a major pianist through her revelatory1970 recordings of all 10 Scriabin sonatas for the Connoisseur label http://www.freep.com/fun/sj/qsound1222.1.htm

December 22, 1996 Ruth Laredo, Alexander Scriabin "The Complete Piano Sonatas" (Nonesuch) Detroiter Ruth Laredo established her reputation as a major pianist through her revelatory 1970 recordings of all 10 Scriabin sonatas for the Connoisseur label and her later CBS LPs of Rachmaninoff's solo music. Nonesuch, which licensed the Scriabin material for a three-LP box in 1984, has finally done the right thing by issuing the material on CD. Etudes and miniatures fill out the two-CD set, which at $20 is a terrific bargain, even with the overly bright digital remastering. (The CD sound is still superior to the Nonesuch LPs, though the warmth of the original Connoisseur LPs trumps both.) Scriabin, a mad Russian mystic who fancied himself a messiah, was a genius, one of the 20th Century's most idiosyncratic composers. Influenced by Chopin and Liszt, he created his own dream-like world, a vast universe of feathery textures, hovering melody and harmonic ambiguity that eventually boiled over into a near-anarchy of stacked fourths and extreme chromaticism. It's best to sample Scriabin in large doses: Listen to an early, middle and late sonata in succession a wild journey starting with unique but domesticated music and ending in a swirl of wizardry and de facto atonality.

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"America's First Lady of the Piano and the first to win international recognition." -New York Daily News "A technical wizard...she can hold her own with any pianist alive." - The New York Times "Ruth Laredo operated within a relatively narrow range at her piano recital, from first-rate to superb." -New York Times "This was great Beethoven playing, and the impact was staggering." - Washington Post "Ruth Laredo is possibly the most generally admirable yet under-valued pianist on the American Scene." - "She has dynamic interpretation. She is romantic, but has a modern sense of clarity and understanding...absolutely superb." -Ongaleu No Tomo, Japan "One of Ruth Laredo's specialties has long been Samuel Barber's eloquent Piano Sonata, and her penetrating recorded performance is the first on disc that seriously challenges the classic version by Horowitz." - New York Magazine "The play of light and shadow is built into Ravel's piano music - which is not to say that every pianist projects it as effectively, indeed as magically as does Ruth Laredo in "Miroirs" (CBS Records)." - Los Angeles Times "Laredo's performance of the Sonatine (Ravel) is a model of neo-classical elegance."

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H ailed as "America's First Lady of the Piano" (N.Y. Daily News), Ruth Laredo has a distinguished worldwide reputation as a leading soloist, recitalist and recording artist. While she is particularly renowned for her pioneering recordings of the complete solo piano music of Rachmaninoff and the complete piano sonatas of Scriabin , her broad repertoire ranges from Beethoven to Barber. For the past 14 seasons, she has created a large and enthusiastic following for her sold-out series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, " Concerts with Commentary ." She has won high praise for her masterful playing and discussions of Brahms, Mendelssohn, Robert and Clara Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Her most recent series was on the music of Beethoven in a 2-concert collaboration with cellist Nathaniel Rosen. This season her focus will be on the music of Mendelssohn in a 3-concert series entitled Felix Mendelssohn: A Miraculous Life Her video, "Live from the Metropolitan Museum", celebrates her unique Rachmaninoff performances. Her latest recording is a 2-CD set of the complete

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"America's First Lady of the Piano" NY Daily News Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Concert Biography Photographs ... Quotes "Astonishing...a whip-cracking performance." The New York Times " A special blend of intensity and rare poetry. She played up a storm." The Washington Post "...one of the great American pianists." The Christian Science Monitor "...fearless, romantic pianism of the highest order." Esquire Magazine "She plays with refinement, showing remarkable control. Laredo has no competitor." Grammophone, London Concerts With Commentary At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City And throughout the U.S. F or 13 consecutive sold-out seasons at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, distinguished pianist Ruth Laredo has been presented in a unique series that has won her exceptional acclaim for her masterful playing and lively commentary. Her Programs have encompassed a broad range of composers, from Scriabin, Ravel and Rachmaninoff to Clara and Robert Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak, and Tchaikovsky. Making use of biographical sketches, musical examples and personal insights, she creates a living portrait of the composer and his music. In addition to her regular recital and symphony engagements, the

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"America's First Lady of the Piano" NY Daily News Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Concert Biography Photographs ... Quotes "Astonishing...a whip-cracking performance." The New York Times " A special blend of intensity and rare poetry. She played up a storm." The Washington Post "...one of the great American pianists." The Christian Science Monitor "...fearless, romantic pianism of the highest order." Esquire Magazine "She plays with refinement, showing remarkable control. Laredo has no competitor." Grammophone, London Concerts With Commentary At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City And throughout the U.S. F or 13 consecutive sold-out seasons at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, distinguished pianist Ruth Laredo has been presented in a unique series that has won her exceptional acclaim for her masterful playing and lively commentary. Her Programs have encompassed a broad range of composers, from Scriabin, Ravel and Rachmaninoff to Clara and Robert Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak, and Tchaikovsky. Making use of biographical sketches, musical examples and personal insights, she creates a living portrait of the composer and his music. In addition to her regular recital and symphony engagements, the

9. Colorado College News Release: Ruth Laredo Distinguished pianist to Perform Classical Selections. COLORADO SPRINGS ruth laredo, leading soloist and recording http://www.cc.colorado.edu/publications/NewsReleases/Dec99/Laredo.html

Distinguished Pianist to Perform Classical Selections COLORADO SPRINGS Ruth Laredo, leading soloist and recording artist, will present a "Homage to Chopin" at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 2, in Colorado College's Packard Hall, located on the southwest corner of Cascade and Cache La Poudre. Hailed as "America's first lady of piano" by the New York Daily News , Laredo is known for her pioneering recordings of Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Beethoven, and Barber. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and the White House, and with such prestigious orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony. Laredo is a three-time Grammy award nominee and one of five pianists chosen by Carnegie Hall to perform in concert as part of its 90th anniversary celebration. Laredo's all-Chopin program will be previewed at 11 a.m. Tickets for the evening concert are $10 (free with a CC ID). Laredo's visit is sponsored by the Great Performers and Ideas Committee. O FFICE OF C OLLEGE ... ELATIONS 14 East Cache La Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903-3298

10. National Honorary Members - J-K-L laredo, ruth - pianist,Kappa 1983; Larsen, Libby - composer, Orange County Alumnae 1995; http://www.sai-national.org/mship/honj.html

NATIONAL HONORARY MEMBERS Jacchia, Esther Ferrabini * - soprano, Lambda 1923 Jackson, Mrs. Charles J. - N.F.M.C., Alpha Kappa 1931 Jardine, Agnes * - N.F.M.C., Omicron 1923 Jennings, Patricia Prattis - pianist, Pittsburgh Alumnae 1991 Jensen, Wilma - organist, Alpha Zeta Jepson-Delarra, Helen - soprano, Alpha Kappa 1936 Jeritza, Maria * - soprano, Zeta 1924 Johnson, Camellia Johnson, Christine - contralto, Sigma Nu 1944 Jonas, Maryla * - pianist, Sigma Phi Jordan, Irene - soprano, Sigma Alpha Joseffy, Olga - violinist, Alpha Delta 1932 * = deceased Kahananui, Dorothy Mitchell - music educator, Epsilon Nu 1969 Kalil, Margaret * - soprano, Iota Theta Kallir, Lillian - pianist, Beta Epsilon Karlas, Despy - pianist, Iota Zeta 1949

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Corrections or additions? 118 across: Pianist Ruth, six letters. Any clues? Laredo appears in a concert at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on the Princeton campus Saturday, May 16, at 8 p.m in a benefit concert sponsored by the Steinway Society. Her program includes works by Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Alexander Scriabin, and Maurice Ravel. A reception follows the concert. She also gives a master class at the Center of Theological Inquiry, 50 Stockton Street, Sunday, May 17, at noon. A lthough her repertoire is broad, Laredo is particularly known for her landmark recording of the piano sonatas of Scriabin 28 years ago, the first in North America, and the complete solo piano music of Sergei Rachmaninoff. She reviews how it happened. "I had never heard of Scriabin before I heard Horowitz play him, and I fell into mad love with his music. He was a hot-house plant, and an unusual composer. His late music is particularly remarkable. I was intrigued. A friend in my building loaned me a recording of Scriabin's 10 sonatas, and I never returned it. They are the most interesting and neglected music around. They're unusually varied. Scriabin lived from 1872 to 1915. He started out Chopinesque or Tchaikovskyesque, and grew into the composer of the future. He wrote the first atonal piece. Musically, he went from Chopin to Schoenberg in one lifetime. That's amazing." The Scriabin pieces on Laredo's Princeton program are his Poeme, op. 32, No. 1, his Deux Morceaux, op. 57, and his Sonata No. 9, op. 68 (The Black Mass).

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My First Recital RUTH LAREDO piano ESS.A.Y Recordings [45'16"] full-price Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude No.1 in C major (from The Well-Tempered Clavier , Book 1) Two-Part Invention Nos.1 in C major, BWV 772 Two-Part Invention No.4 in D minor, BMV 775 Two Part Invention No.8 in F major, BWV 779 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fantasia in D minor K397 Sonata in C Major K 545 Ludwig Van Beethoven Für Elise Sonata in G major Op 49 Frederic Chopin Waltz in A major, Op.64 -" Minute Waltz" Waltz in B minor, Op.69 No.1 (after the Warsaw Autograph) Grand Valse Brilliante in A, Op.18 Claude Debussy The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (from Preludes, Book 1) Clair de lune (from Suite Bergamasque Robert Schumann Kinderscenen (Scenes from Childhood) Op.15 From Foreign Lands and People A Curious Story An important Event Dreaming (Traumerei) Sergei Prokofiev March from Peter and the Wolf by Johann D'Souza If you are looking for a "Wow" CD of classical piano virtuostic works - this is not the disc. However, listening to this album does bring back memories for a former piano student like myself. Well, as the programme suggests, it is a nostalgic look at Ruth Laredo's first recital and constitutes works every pianist would have gone through when learning the piano, from earlier works by J.S Bach to Für Elise by Beethoven, with works gradually increasing in difficulty and progressing to modern works like Prokofiev's

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15. Biographies And Autobiographies Lili Kraus Hungarian pianist, Texas Teacher, Personality Extraordinaire Fort Worth,Texas, TCU New York Stein and Day, 1964 ruth laredo (1937) laredo, ruth. http://www.pianowomen.com/books.html

HOME SEARCH Yesterday's Concert Pianists Chronological Alphabetical Today's Top Concert Pianists Other Contemporary Classical Pianists ... THE MONTHLY PAGE Newsletter Site Map E-Mail Editor Classical Music - CDs Books Enter Artist's Full Name: Biographies and Autobiographies Publications by and about Women Pianists Suggestions for additions to this page are welcome Nancy Arganbright (b. 1936) and Dallas Weekley (b. 1933) Arganbright, Nancy, and Dallas Weekley. Schubert's music for piano four-hands : a comprehensive guide to performing and listening to the dances, fantasies, marches, polonaises, sonatas, variations, waltzes and other duets. . White Plains, N.Y. : Pro/Am Music Resources, 1990. Gina Bachauer Wade, Graham. Gina Bachauer, A Pianist's Odessey . Leeds, England: GRM Publications, 1999 [ 402 pages, with Prefaces from H.M. King Constantine of the Hellenes, H.R.H. Princess Irene of Greece, and Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Heath, formerly Prime Minister of Great Britain. This is the official biography of Gina Bachauer, commissioned by her family. (Available in England from GRM Publications, 383 Queen Street, Withernsea, HU19 2NZ, England, and in the USA from The Bold Strummer.) Allred, Nancy C. "Gina Bachauer: Her Performance Career, A Study of Her Repertoire in Concert and Recording." DMA Diss., University of Missouri, 1999.

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HOME Search Yesterday's Concert Pianists Chronological Alphabetical Today's Top Concert Pianists Other Contemporary Classical Pianists THE MONTHLY PAGE New This Month Just For Teachers Editorial Musings Letters to the Editor ... E-Mail Editor THE MONTHLY PAGE August, 2001 Editorial Musings Archives Getting Thru Life's Trials Julia Gorenman, Idil Biret and Ruth Laredo reveal the difficult times in their lives by Rose Eide-Altman , editor Have you heard the saying: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!"? That may be easier to do for some people than for others, but we’ve all had trying times which may have tempted us to give up our dreams and goals. This month’s editorial focuses on difficulties in the lives of three outstanding concert pianists with the wish that these amazing stories will encourage you when you feel like you have been handed more than your share of lemons. It was reading the new article last month about Maryla Jonas , and her overwhelming difficulties during and after World War II, that prompted me to share with you other stories that I have found in websites featured in "Women at the Piano". Last year, as I was browsing through

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18. Scriabin: The Master Summary Reviews Sonata Collections. pianist ruth laredo's complete collectionof Scriabin's sonatas is available as a set on the NoneSuch label. http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/7018/Scriabindiscs.html

Summary Reviews Sonata Collections Pianist Ruth Laredo's Vladimir Ashkenazy's London label collection of complete sonatas is also inexpensive (in the Double-Decker format). (I bought the expensive older set that is made with a double jewel box.) The sound is less compressed than Laredo's, but has a a bit of harshness. The digitally recorded sonatas sound the best. The set lacks the excellent photos of the composer, as well as the beautiful design of the Laredo set. The liner notes in the Ashkenazy collection are the poorest of those I've reviewed. His playing is sometimes mechanical or choppy, but the 7th is the only lackluster performance in the set. The 10th is a bit disappointing, too. Many of his performances are excellent, such as the 1st, 3rd, and 8th. collection is another good choice, although it's pricey. The weakest performances in the set are his choppy and harsh rendering of the Fantasy in B minor and the soft 9th sonata. The 1st sonata is also played too fast, and without much emotion. His technique has a great deal of speed and detail. The collection is from the Hyperion label. The sound quality is very clean digital. The design is quite pleasing aesthetically. He is the only pianist to include an unpublished Scriabin sonata from his youth. The liner notes tell the reader that there are two other unpublished Scriabin sonatas from his youth. Hopefully someone will record those. Pianist Robert Taub's excellent complete collection of Scriabin's sonatas is available as a set on the Harmonia Mundi label. The performances are analog recordings from the eighties. This collection features the best sound quality of the collections in this review. However, on some sonatas, the left hand is too pronounced while the right is obscured. There is a distinct difference in the sound quality between sonatas because they were recorded at different times. As with the Laredo collection, the liner notes feature notes by the pianist. The set is pricey like Hamelin's. While many of Taub's performances excellent, the recording of the 7th sonata is a disappointment. The visual presentation is average like Ashkenazy's collection. Both collections feature the pianist smiling on the cover and lack the aesthetic attention present in the Laredo and Hamelin collections.

19. Scriabin: The Master ruth laredo and Marc André Hamelin are also solid choices. Bernd Glemser isan excellent Scriabin pianist, but I am not aware of a complete sonatas http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/7018/sonata1.html

Scriabin Sonata 1 Although Scriabin wrote several sonatas before this one, this is the first he decided to publish, probably because he felt the earlier sonatas were merely student-grade works. The magnificent F minor was written in 1892. It is a romantic sonata along the lines of Rachmaninov and it is rich with angst, pain, and ends with a funeral march. The first movement is stunning; it's among his most impressive compositions. Although he was still a student when it was written, it is a brilliant and emotional sonata. It is one of the Scriabin sonatas I listen to very frequently. Taub and Hamelin add a repetition of the opening theme. I prefer this longer variation of the first movement to the shorter version Ashkenazy and Laredo play. I have not seen the score, so I do not know which version is the original, or whether or not the composer made the repetition optional. Ashkenazy does very well with this piece; he gives an outstanding performance. However, Taub's performance is a close rival. Hamelin is a technical wizard in the first movement of this piece. He plays with extreme speed. However, the nearly rabid tempo doesn't suit the piece. Although such speed is spectacular, his performance seems completely rushed. His performance of the emotional funeral march is also rather indifferent. Hamelin's performance is a solid one, but I prefer Taub's and Ashkenazy's.

20. The WNYC Petition Alan Feinberg, pianist. Edward Said, University Professor, Columbia University.ruth laredo, pianist. Fred Sherry, cellist. Eugenia Zukerman, flutist. http://www.artistled.com/html/wnyc_petition.htm

The WNYC Petition Below is the petition that was delivered to the WNYC meeting of the board of trustees on March 7th, 2002. Signatures asterisked (*) at the bottom arrived too late to be delivered to the board. The letter will remain an ongoing project - check back here for additional signatures March 1, 2002 To the Board of Trustees of the WNYC Foundation: We the undersigned strongly believe that classical music must remain a substantial part of the program schedule of WNYC, New York's only public radio station. For 77 years WNYC has been at the center of musical life in New York City. Throughout that time the station's music programming has provided an invaluable and irreplaceable cultural service for New Yorkers. While we understood the necessity of temporarily suspending most classical music programming after September 11, 2001, we believe that classical music should be restored to its prominent place on the schedule. We are committed to helping WNYC achieve this goal.

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