I heard Joseph Villa at the Piano Aux Jacobins festival in Toulouse (France) in the cloister built in 1306, one of the most beautiful moments of my life as a music lover. On the program: Beethoven, Liszt, Scribine, Schuman. I have the CD of the concert that I listen to regularly. His Moonlight sonata is a pure moment of happiness.
@@shulamitmaneev yes but it was modest and he was helped by famous musicians in the mid 80’s like Garrick Ohlsson, Alicia Delarocha and Jessye Norman and eventual more exposure in France where I heard him in one his last concerts, prestigious private salon in Paris, in the audience was all of the musical intelligencia, agents Valmalette, famous pianists, Pires, Paik Erato records.but too little too late and that year his unfortunate tragic premature death.
Fantastic! Thanks for posting this, and your website is great! I remember my first introduction to Joseph Villa many years ago - the Liszt Benediction on the radio; mesmerizing...unforgettable!
@0:00 CHOPIN: Andante spianato & … @4:35 … Grande polonaise op.22 @14:21 LISZT: Fantasy on Motifs from Beethoven's "The Ruins of Athens" S.122 @27:15 CHOPIN: Nocturne in E-flat op.9/2
I heard Joseph Villa at the Piano Aux Jacobins festival in Toulouse (France) in the cloister built in 1306, one of the most beautiful moments of my life as a music lover. On the program: Beethoven, Liszt, Scribine, Schuman. I have the CD of the concert that I listen to regularly. His Moonlight sonata is a pure moment of happiness.
He taught briefly at the University of Connecticut, where I heard him in recital in the 1970s. A wonderful pianist!
Wonderful! An artist. A former student of mine studied with him in NYC and informed me that he played better than I, she was correct.
He was one my mentors and I lived around the corner in NY, 1980’s,
knew the genius well!
You're so fortunate to have had him as a mentor - what a genius indeed!
Did he have a performing carrier?
@@shulamitmaneev yes but it was modest and he was helped by famous musicians in the mid 80’s like Garrick Ohlsson, Alicia Delarocha and Jessye Norman
and eventual more exposure in France where I heard him in one his last concerts, prestigious private salon in Paris, in the audience was all of the musical intelligencia, agents Valmalette, famous pianists, Pires, Paik Erato records.but too little too late and that year his unfortunate tragic premature death.
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What did he die from?
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Fantastic! Thanks for posting this, and your website is great! I remember my first introduction to Joseph Villa many years ago - the Liszt Benediction on the radio; mesmerizing...unforgettable!
Played chamber music with him in our student days.
those smooth runs of scales in Ruins of Athen are amazing
Many thanks for sharing this!!!! He was a student under Arrau for some time.
Just want to echo the thanks that others have already expressed for sharing this, Mark! :-)
@0:00 CHOPIN: Andante spianato & …
@4:35 … Grande polonaise op.22
@14:21 LISZT: Fantasy on Motifs from Beethoven's "The Ruins of Athens" S.122
@27:15 CHOPIN: Nocturne in E-flat op.9/2