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Special offer. Piano Library - Westminster & American Decca Edition
Jorg Demus (piano), Edith Farnadi (pianoo), Raymond Lewenthal (piano), Nina Millkina (piano), Egon Petri (piano) Carlo Zecchi (piano), Ben Moiseiwitsch (piano), Youra Guller (piano), Clara Haskill (piano)
Special offer. Piano Library - Westminster & American Decca Edition
Jorg Demus (piano), Edith Farnadi (pianoo), Raymond Lewenthal (piano), Nina Millkina (piano), Egon Petri (piano) Carlo Zecchi (piano), Ben Moiseiwitsch (piano), Youra Guller (piano), Clara Haskill (piano)
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An Original Jackets treasury of analogue-era pianism by legendary and lesser-known names from the catalogues of American Decca and Westminster released as a Limited Edition.
Spanning 1950 to 1963 - Clara Haskil in Scarlatti to Guiomar Novaes in Chopin and Debussy - the recordings in this set document the end of some distinguished careers (notably Benno Moiseiwitsch and Egon Petri) and the early fourishing of others, such as Jorg Demus and Nina Milkina. Classic examples of German, Russian, French, Hungarian, Romanian and American pianism illustrate the characteristics of their national schools, but most of all underline the personal artistry of musicians such as Haskil and Moiseiwitsch who always turned a phrase or a chord and made it their own.
The four solo LPs for Westminster recorded in 1956 by Raymond Lewenthal marked his return to the studio after an assault which had left him unable to play for several years. He would go on to become an early champion on record of the late- Romantic, ultra- virtuoso style, but these Westminster LPs capture him in repertoire from Beethoven sonatas and Scriabin preludes to popular encores.
Excerpts from some of these LPs have appeared on CD before, but not the full albums as originally sequenced. This is also true of the treasurable August 1961 sessions in New York made by Benno Moiseiwitsch, playing inimitably infected accounts of Beethoven, Schumann and Mussorgsky. There is a frst- time CD release for Petri's 'Moonlight' Sonata, alongside its original LP couplings of the 'Pathetique' and 'Appassionata', plus the 'Hammerklavier
Contents and tracklist
Jorg Demus: FRANCK Prelude, Choral et Fugue / Prelude, Aria et Final /
Jorg Demus: FAURE Impromptus Op. 25*, 31, 34*, 91 & 102 / Theme et
Variations / Barcarolle, Op. 70 / Nocturne, Op. 63 No. 6 / Edith Farnadi: LISZT
Soirees de Vienne / Edith Farnadi: Johann Strauss Waltz Paraphrases /
GODOWSKY Symphonic Metamorphosis on Kunstlerleben / Symphonic
Metamorphosis on Die Fledermaus / Symphonic Metamorphosis on Wein, Weib
und Gesang / DOHNANYI Schatz- Walzer (Der Zigeunerbaron) / SCHULHOF
Pizzicato Polka / Clara Haskill: SCARLATTI Keyboard Sonatas / Kk. 247, 2, 132,
35, 193, 386, 519, 322, 87, 515, 437 / Youra Guller: CHOPIN Mazurkas F minor, Op.
7 No. 3 / D fat major, Op. 30 No. 3 / C major, Op. 56 No. 2 / Raymond Lewenthal:
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata Nos. 8, 14 & 23 / SCRIABIN Fantasy; Vers la famme / 5 Preludes, Op. 74 / 24 Preludes, Op. 11 / Moonlight and Keyboard - DEBUSSY
Clair de lune / LISZT Liebestraum No. 3 in A fat major / SAINT- SAENSGODOWSKY Le Cygne (from Carnaval des animaux) / RACHMANINOFFLEWENTHAL Zdes' khoroso / BRAHMS Waltz in A fat major, Op. 39 No. 15* /
CHOPIN Nocturne in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2* / CHOPIN Nocturne in E fat
major, Op. 9 No. 2* / TRADITIONAL/LEWENTHAL Greensleeves / CHOPIN Waltz
in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2* / MASSENET Elegie (from Les Erinnyes) /
RUBINSTEIN Romance in E fat major, Op. 44 No. 1 / SCHUMANN Traumerei
(from Kinderszenen, Op. 15)* / BEETHOVEN Adagio sostenuto (from Piano
Sonata, Op. 27 No. 2 'Moonlight')* / SCHUBERT- LISZT Standchen (from
Schwanengesang, D. 957) / MENDELSSOHN- LISZT Auf Flugeln des Gesanges /
CHOPIN Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie- Impromptu'* /
Toccatas for Piano - DELLA CIAIA Toccata in G minor / J.S. BACH Toccata in C
minor BWV 911 / CZERNY Toccata in C major, Op. 92 / ALKAN Toccatina in C
minor, Op. 75 / SCHUMANN Toccata in C major, Op. 7 / PROKOFIEV Toccata, Op.
11 / DEBUSSY Toccata (from Pour le Piano) / RAVEL Toccata (from Le Tombeau
de Couperin) / JELOBINSKY Toccata in C major, Op. 19, No. 1 / LEWENTHAL
Toccata alla Scarlatti / MENOTTI Ricercare and Toccata on a theme from 'The
Old Maid and the Thief' / Nina Milkina: SCARLATTI Keyboard Sonatas / Kk. 190,
208, 396, 481, 447, 507, 450, 161, 29, 107, 125, 527 / C.P.E. BACH Keyboard
Sonatas / F minor, H.173; A minor, H.247; A major, H.186; D major, H.286 / Benno
Moiseiwitch: BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos. 14 & 26; Andante favori /
SCHUMANN Vogel als Prophet / SCHUMANN Kreisleriana; Kinderszenen /
Romance, Op. 28 No. 2; Arabeske / MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition /
SCHUMANN Carnaval / Guiomar Novaes: CHOPIN Barcarolle, Op. 60 / DEBUSSY
Les collines d'Anacapri (Preludes, Livre I No. 5) / La soiree dans Grenade (from
Estampes) / Poissons d'or (from Images, Livre II) / Minstrels (Preludes, Livre I No.
12) / LISZT Etudes de Concert, S.145 / Liebestraum No. 3 / Valse oubliee No. 1 /
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10 / Egon Petri: BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 14*
& 23 / BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas No. 29 / BUSONI Fantasia contrappuntistica /
BACH- BUSONI Chorale Preludes: / Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme / In dir ist
Freude / Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ / Nun freut euch, liebe Christen g'mein /
BUXTEHUDE-PETRI Wir danken dir, Herr Jesu Christ / BACH-PETRI / Vor deinen
Thron tret' ich hiermit / Minuet from Klavierbuchlein fur Wilhelm Friedmann
Bach / Schafe konnen sicher weiden (Sheep may safely graze) / BACH-BUSONI
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 / Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major,
BWV 564 / Prelude and Fugue in E fat major, BWV 552 / Prelude and Fugue in D
major, BWV 532 / Liszt - The Famous Piano Transcriptions - MENDELSSOHNLISZT Wedding March and Elfn Chorus / GOUNOD-LISZT Valse de l'opera Faust
de Gounod, S. 407 - Paraphrase de concert / BEETHOVEN-LISZT Adelaide / LISZTBUSONI Mephisto Waltz No. 1 / Fantasia on two themes from Mozart's The
Marriage of Figaro, S. 697 / Carlo Zecchi: SCARLATTI Sonatas, Kk. 159 & 259 /
J.S. BACH Prelude and Fugue No. 13 in F sharp major, BWV 858 (Well-Tempered
Clavier Book I) / Two-Part Invention No. 11 in G minor, BWV 782 / MOZART Piano
Sonata No. 9 in D major, K. 311 / CHOPIN Mazurkas Op. 41 No. 1 & Op. 17 No. 4 / SCHUMANN Kinderszenen
