The Boesendorfer Sound

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Release Date: 30th Sep 2013
Catalogue No: DE3460
Label: Delos
Length: 70 minutes

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Bennett, R R: Barcarolle for piano

Work length3:09

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Carol Rosenberger

Ravel: Jeux d'eau (Fountains)

Work length5:32

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Carol Rosenberger

Excerpt, Liszt: Transcendental Studies, S139 Nos. 1-12

Work length12:05

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Carol Rosenberger

No. 11 in D-Flat Major, "Harmonies du soir" (Evening Harmonies)

Track length12:05

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Excerpt, Ravel: Miroirs, M.43

Work length7:14

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Carol Rosenberger

III. Une barque sur l'océan (A Ship on the Ocean)

Track length7:14

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Excerpt, Granados: Goyescas (piano suite)

Work length6:39

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Carol Rosenberger

IV. Quejas, ó la maja y el ruiseñor (Laments or the Maiden and the Nightingale)

Track length6:39

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Excerpt, Debussy: Préludes - Book 1

Work length6:48

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Carol Rosenberger

X. La cathédrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral)

Track length6:48

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Griffes: Roman Sketches, Op. 7

Work length3:46

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Carol Rosenberger

III. The Fountain of the Acqua Paola

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Debussy: Nocturne in D-Flat

Work length6:22

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Carol Rosenberger

Excerpt, Debussy: Images pour piano - Book 1

Work length5:31

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Carol Rosenberger

I. Reflets dans l'eau (Reflections in the Water)

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Chopin: Nocturne No. 16 in E flat major, Op. 55 No. 2

Work length5:57

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Carol Rosenberger

Griffes: Fantasy Pieces, Op. 6

Work length7:16

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Carol Rosenberger

I. Barcarolle

Track length7:16

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This collection features especially telling and beautifully recorded examples of the Boesendorfer model 290 Imperial Grand piano’s uniquely pure and resonant sound, as selected from the many recordings that distinguished Delos recording artist Carol Rosenberger has made on her personal instrument since 1979.

Delos Director and stellar pianist Carol Rosenberger’s lifelong love affair with Boesendorfer pianos dates from her student days in Vienna, where they are meticulously made, entirely by hand. Her 1979 search for the perfect piano for her first-ever digital recording for Delos brought her together with a magnificent model 290 Imperial Concert Grand that became “Boesie,” her personal instrument. With it, she has since made many recordings that stand not only as convincing proof of what the New York Times has called her “Ravishing, elegant pianism” – but as arguably the finest and most comprehensive demonstration of the Boesendorfer Imperial’s legendary sonic qualities that any pianist has ever achieved.

Carol’s recordings on “Boesie” are unique, in that a number of them offer repertoire that she chose specifically for its suitability as vehicles to demonstrate the instrument’s unique sound. This collection offers a carefully selected cross-section of said repertoire, featuring lovely examples by Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Enrique Granados, Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Richard Rodney Bennett. These sonically spectacular recordings – many of them made by iconic sound engineer John Eargle – went far to establish Delos’ reputation as an audiophile label.

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