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Gary Graffman
12+ albums
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Gary Graffman (born October 14, 1928) is an American classical pianist, teacher of piano and music Graffman was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. Having started piano at age 3, Graffman entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 7 in 1936 as a piano student of Isabelle Vengerova. After graduating from Curtis in 1946, he made his professional solo debut with conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. By age 20, Graffman had made a name for himself worldwide as a classical pianist. In 1949, he won the prestigious Leventritt Competition. He then furthered his piano studies with Rudolf Serkin at the Marlboro Music Festival and informally with Vladimir Horowitz. Upon graduation he played with numerous orchestras and performed concerts and recitals internationally. Over the next three decades, he toured and recorded extensively, performing solo and with orchestras around the globe. In 1964, he recorded Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic. He also made a classic recording of Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra in 1966; it was reissued on CD as part of Sony Classical's "Great Performances" series in 2006. Probably Graffman's most famous recorded performance was for the soundtrack of the 1979 Woody Allen movie Manhattan in which he played George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, accompanied by the New York Philharmonic. Portions of the Philharmon
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Rhapsody in Blue
1,9982Rhapsody In Blue - Instrumental
5563Variation on a theme by Paganini, Op.35 - Book I, Variation 4
5274Variation on a theme by Paganini, Op.35 - Book I, Variation 5
5105Variation on a theme by Paganini, Op.35 - Book I, Variation 9
4986Variation on a theme by Paganini, Op.35 - Book I, Variation 11
4957Variation on a theme by Paganini, Op.35 - Book II, Variation 3
4868Variation on a theme by Paganini, Op.35 - Book I, Variation 14
4849Variation on a theme by Paganini, Op.35 - Book II, Variation 2
48410Variation on a theme by Paganini, Op.35 - Book I, Variation 12
482albums
Manhattan: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Nodame Cantabile Best100
Manhattan
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Manhattan: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Liszt: Paganini Études / Liebestraum in A-flat Major (No. 3) / Étude No. 3 in D-flat Major ("Un sospiro") / Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11
Gary Graffman - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection
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のだめカンタービレ Best 100 [Disc 8]
Chopin: Greatest Hits
The Virtuoso Liszt
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Nodame Cantabile Best 100
Fauré: Sonata No. 1 in A Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 13 - Debussy: Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Piano No. 3, L. 140
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Rachmaninov's Greatest Hits
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