Great Pianists - Women at the Piano Volume 5

An Anthology of Historic Performances (1923-1955)

Johana Harris (piano), Emma Contestabile (piano), Denise Lassimonne (piano), Dorothea Winand-Mendelssohn (piano), Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano), Etelka Freund (piano), Felicitas Karrer (piano), Eva Wollman (piano), Denise Herbrecht, Lucien Petitjean (piano), Jean Melville (piano), Carmen-Marie-Lucie...

Vol. 5 is absorbing and includes performances of great documentary interest. As with the previous issue, many of these are by pianists whose names long ago slipped into oblivion and the newer... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2012 More…

Release Date: 3rd Sep 2012
Catalogue No: 8111219
Label: Naxos
Series: Historical, Great Pianists
Length: 77 minutes

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Frescobaldi: Fugue in G minor

Work length2:22

Johana Harris (piano)
Recorded: 1945
Recording Venue: Los Angeles

Galuppi: Keyboard Sonata in C minor, Illy No. 34

Work length4:45

Emma Contestabile (piano)
Recorded: 3 July 1953
Recording Venue: Italy

Keyboard Sonata in C minor, Illy No. 34: I. Larghetto. II. Allegro

Track length4:45

Mozart: Fantasia (Prelude) & Fugue in C major, K394

Work length8:19

Denise Lassimonne (piano)
Recorded: 13 June 1941
Recording Venue: London

Prelude

Track length4:32

Fugue

Track length3:47

Mendelssohn: Rondo capriccioso in E major, Op. 14

Work length6:16

Dorothea Winand-Mendelssohn (piano)
Recorded: 16 May 1951
Recording Venue: Beethoven-Saal, Hannover, Germany

Chopin: Variations brilliantes in B flat major on 'Je Vends des Scapulaires', Op. 12

Work length8:30

Tatyana Nikolayeva (piano)
Recorded: circa 1953
Recording Venue: Moscow

Excerpt, Brahms: Intermezzi (3), Op. 117

Work length3:51

Etelka Freund (piano)
Recorded: 1952
Recording Venue: New York

3 Intermezzos, Op. 117: No. 2 in B flat minor

Track length3:51

Wagner: Albumblatt in E flat major

Work length4:14

Felicitas Karrer (piano)
Recorded: 12 June 1950
Recording Venue: Telefunken Studio, Dornbach

Excerpt, Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37b

Work length4:10

Eva Wollman (piano)
Recorded: 1954
Recording Venue: Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria

Les saisons (The Seasons), Op. 37b: VI. June: Barcarolle

Track length4:10

Moszkowski: New Spanish Dances Op. 65

Work length7:47

Lucien Petitjean (piano), Denise Herbrecht (piano)
Recorded: 1930
Recording Venue: Paris

No. 1. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length3:09

No. 3. Habanera: Allegretto

Track length4:38

Lack, T: Valse Arabesque, Op. 82

Work length2:53

Jean Melville (piano)
Recorded: 1923
Recording Venue: London

Mayerl: Marigold

Work length2:34

Carmen-Marie-Lucie Guilbert (piano)
Recorded: 1932
Recording Venue: Paris

Mayerl: Robots, Op. 81

Work length2:19

Carmen-Marie-Lucie Guilbert (piano)
Recorded: 1932
Recording Venue: Paris

Williams, Alberto: Luciernagas en laredecilla de mi china, Op. 72, No. 7

Work length2:13

Madeleine Grovlez (piano)
Recorded: 1929
Recording Venue: Paris

Williams, Alberto: Milongas, Op. 64

Work length3:05

Madeleine Grovlez (piano)
Recorded: 1929
Recording Venue: Paris

Milongas, Op. 64: XVIII. La milonga del tropero

Track length3:05

Philipp: 3 Etudes de concert en doubles notes, Op.56

Work length3:08

Ida-Marie-Louise Perin (piano)
Recorded: 1929
Recording Venue: Paris

No. 2 in D flat major

Track length1:39

No. 1 in F major

Track length1:29

Excerpt, Scriabin: 8 Etudes, Op. 42

Work length1:49

Cornelia Rider-Possart (piano)
Recorded: 19 March 1926
Recording Venue: Berlin

8 Etudes, Op. 42: No. 3 in F sharp major

Track length1:49

Marx: 6 Piano Pieces

Work length3:16

Grete Scherzer (piano)
Recorded: 14 March 1951
Recording Venue: London

6 Piano Pieces: No. 2. Praludium

Track length3:16

Poulenc: Humoresque

Work length1:48

Annette Haas-Hamburger (piano)
Recorded: 1952
Recording Venue: France

Griffes: Fantasy Pieces, Op. 6

Work length4:19

Lenore Engdahl (piano)
Recorded: 1955
Recording Venue: New York

3 Fantasy Pieces, Op. 6: No. 3. Scherzo

Track length4:19

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