Ilse von Alpenheim
Ilse of Alpine home ( born February 11, 1927 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian-Swiss pianist.
Life
It was early taught by her mother, a well-known piano teacher, and has performed with nine years as a soloist in Haydn's Concerto Hob XVIII, 11. From 1944 she studied with Winfried Wolf in Kitzbuhel, 1945-1949 Franz Ledwinka at the Salzburg Mozarteum. In 1951, she moved to Switzerland. In 1955 she met in Bern, the Hungarian composer Sándor Veress, with whom she lived until 1968 and for whose piano work they do - in the concert hall as in broadcasting - decidedly began. From 1960 to 1968 she led a concert class at the Bern Conservatory. In 1971 she married the conductor Antal Doráti, who composed several piano works for them and with which they developed an intense joint concert. Her career as a soloist, she has led in four continents where she has given recitals and concerts with many leading orchestras. Among her z.T. longstanding chamber music partners CONFIGURE the violinist Max Rostal Henryk Szeryng, Igor Ozim, cellist Walter Grimmer, the Bern String Quartet, the Amadeus Quartet and the Camerata Bern.
Repertoire
Her repertoire is broad, but has a particular focus on the literature of the Viennese Classical and early Romantic, whose name stands for the sound sensitive, intent on structural interpretation of audibility in the first place. In the 20th century, there are - in addition to the already Mentioned - especially Leoš Janáček, Bartók, Frank Martin, Arthur Honegger, Paul Hindemith and Francis Poulenc, for their piano and chamber music, she has set herself.
Recordings
Ilse of Alpine home has all the piano sonatas, Concertini and piano concertos by Joseph Haydn recorded. In addition, there is a complete recording of the songs without words and a selection of other works for piano by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. As a chamber musician she has emerged as a member of the Arion Trio with recordings of piano trios by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Chamber Music for Piano and Strings by Franz Schubert.