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Clifford Curzon - Decca Recordings Volume 2
Clifford Curzon (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra and Concertgebouw Orchestra, Josef Krips and Eduard van Beinum
Awards:
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Building a Library, May 2006, First Choice
it is the Brahms and Schubert Sonatas that sum up perfectly all that is uniquely cherishable in Curzon's art. The playing has great humanity and freshness. Both interpretations are totally spontaneous-sounding;...
Clifford Curzon - Decca Recordings Volume 2
Clifford Curzon (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra and Concertgebouw Orchestra, Josef Krips and Eduard van Beinum
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Awards:
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Building a Library, May 2006, First Choice
it is the Brahms and Schubert Sonatas that sum up perfectly all that is uniquely cherishable in Curzon's art. The playing has great humanity and freshness. Both interpretations are totally spontaneous-sounding;...
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- Clifford Curzon (piano)
- Recorded: 1941-12
- Clifford Curzon (piano)
- Recorded: 1941-11
- Clifford Curzon (piano)
- Recorded: 1941-06
- Clifford Curzon (piano)
- Recorded: 1941-06
- Clifford Curzon (piano)
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Josef Krips
- Recorded: 1953-10-22
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
- Clifford Curzon (piano)
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Josef Krips
- Recorded: 1953-10-22
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
- Clifford Curzon (piano)
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Eduard van Beinum
- Recorded: 1953-06-01
- Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- Clifford Curzon (piano)
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Anatole Fistoulari
- Recorded: 1951-10
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
- Clifford Curzon (piano)
- Recorded: 1962-12
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
- Clifford Curzon (piano)
- Recorded: 1962-12
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
- Clifford Curzon (piano)
- Recorded: 1962-12
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
- Clifford Curzon (piano)
- Recorded: 1972-11
- Recording Venue: "The Maltings", Concert Hall, Snape
- Clifford Curzon (piano), Willi Boskovsky (violin), Otto Strasser (violin), Rudolf Streng (viola), Robert Scheiwein (cello)
- Vienna Philharmonic Quartet
- Recorded: 1962-10-29
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
- Clifford Curzon (piano), Vienna Philharmonic Quartet (stringquartet), Willi Boskovsky (violin), Otto Strasser (violin), Rudolf Streng (viola), Emanuel Brabec (cello)
- Recorded: 1960-10-16
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Awards and reviews
2011 edition
it is the Brahms and Schubert Sonatas that sum up perfectly all that is uniquely cherishable in Curzon's art. The playing has great humanity and freshness. Both interpretations are totally spontaneous-sounding; yet in the Brahms, despite the underlying intensity, nothing is over-stated.