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Box 98

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Contains 11 Results:

Solo piano recording, probably 1940s or 1950s

 File — Box: 98, item: LF-403-404
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Audio recording of unidentified piano pieces, probably performed by Leon Fleisher.

Dates: probably 1940s or 1950s

Leon Fleisher, piano: Debussy and Ravel, 1959?

 File — Box: 98, item: LF-407-408
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Audio recording of Leon Fleisher, piano.

Suite bergamesque / Claude Debussy
Valses nobles et sentimentales / Maurice Ravel
Alborada del gracioso / Maurice Ravel

Dates: 1959?

Leon Fleisher solo piano recital, probably 1940s or 1950s

 File — Box: 98, item: LF-250-257
Scope and Contents Audio recording of recital by Leon Fleisher. Includes Sonata in B-flat by Schubert and other works. Digital files arranged in proper sequence.Lacquer disc. LF-250 contains sides 1 and 3.Lacquer disc. LF-251 contains sides 2 and 4.Lacquer disc. LF-252 contains sides 5 and 7.Lacquer disc. LF-253 contains sides 6 and 8.Lacquer disc. LF-254 contains sides 9 and 11.Lacquer disc. LF-255 contains sides 10 and 12.Lacquer disc. LF-256 contains sides 13 and...
Dates: probably 1940s or 1950s

Leon Fleisher recital at WQXR studio, 1950 March 11

 File — Box: 98, item: LF-409
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Audio recording of Fleisher performing at the WQXR radio studio. The repertoire includes:
The Engulfed Catherdal / Claude Debussy
Rondo Capriccioso / Felix Mendelssohn

Dates: 1950 March 11

Schubert: Sonata in B-flat, D. 960, 1955?

 File — Box: 98, item: LF-405
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Audio recording of Leon Fleisher, piano. Lacquer disc. marked "XLP 32916."

Dates: 1955?

Schubert [Ländler?], 1955?

 File — Box: 98, item: LF-406
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Audio recording of Leon Fleisher, piano. Lacquer disc. marked "XLP 32917."

Dates: 1955?

Cleveland Orchestra recording, 1959

 File — Box: 98, item: LF-402
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Audio recording of the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell. Leon Fleisher, piano. Disc labeled XEM 45895.
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 / Ludwig van Beethoven

Dates: 1959

Cleveland Orchestra recording, 1959 April 22

 File — Box: 98, item: LF-401
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Audio recording of Concerto No. 25 by Mozart, probably with Leon Fleisher, piano. Lacquer disc labeled XEM 45896.

Dates: 1959 April 22

Seattle Symphony concert, 1963

 File — Multiple Containers
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Audio recording of the Seattle Symphony, conducted by Leon Kirchner, with Fleisher playing Piano Concerto No. 2 by Kirchner.

Dates: 1963

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra recording of Ravel [test pressing], 1982

 File — Box: 98, item: LF-572
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Audio recording of the BSO playing three Ravel pieces: Concerto for the Left Hand (Leon Fleisher, piano), Alborada del Gracioso, Rapsodie espagnole.

Dates: 1982

Bertha Fleisher reading poetry, 1948 August 21

 File — Box: 98, item: LF-371, LF-372
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LF-371: Audio recording of Leon Fleisher's mother, Bertha Fleisher, reading 'If' by Rudyard Kipling twice, as well as 'Invictus', by Henley.
LF-372: Audio recording of Bertha Fleisher reading Polonius' advice to Laertes from Hamlet, and the poem How Did You Die by Edmund Vance Cooke.

Dates: 1948 August 21