Alfred Cortot
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The French Piano School: French School Pianists Play French Concertos
Jeanne-Marie Darre, Alfred Cortot (piano), Kazuko Kusama, Hisatada Otaka, Marcelle Herrenschmidt, Lucien Wurmser, Victor Gallois, Jean Doyen, Jean Fournet, Francis Poulenc (piano), Marguerite Roesgen-Champion, Marius-François Gaillard, Jean Françaix, Leo Borchard, Nadia Boulanger, Arnaud de Gontaut-Biron,...
Here, recorded between 1930 and 1949, are 14 works for piano and orchestra played either by their composer or by someone well acquainted with them...Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Mendelssohn & Schumann: Piano Trios
Jacques Thibaud (violin), Pablo Casals (cello) & Alfred Cortot (piano)
Tully Potter's introductory note reminds us that it was in Paris, in their later twenties, that these three legendary artists first made music together – just for pleasure. But international... —
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Great Cellists - Casals
Pablo Casals (cello), Jacques Thibaud (violin)
Pablo Casals Orchestra of Barcelona, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfred Cortot, George Szell
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Cortot’s 1928 recording of the Second Sonata is one of the earliest studio recordings of the work. He takes dizzying tempos at various points: both the scherzo and the finale are rapid and threaten... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2007, Re-issue of the Month
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Bach - Piano Transcriptions Volume 1
Selected works including Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 and more
Sergey Rachmaninov, Alfred Cortot, Winifred Christie, Ethel Bartlett, Rae Robertson, Olga Samaroff, George Copeland, Harriet Cohen, Alexander Kelberine, Walter Gieseking, Wilhelm Backhaus, Byron Janis, Artur Rubinstein (all piano)
This grand transcription may forever be associated with Vladimir Horowitz's 1965 historic return, yet his rival Arthur Rubinstein arguably played it better for one of his least discussed and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Best-kept Secrets
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There are wrong notes, some of the recordings are of poor quality, others remarkably good for the 1920s: what is amazing is the unfailing verve, poetry, warmth and spontaneity. Some of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2007, Re-issue of the Month
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Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 7 in B flat Major, Op. 97 'Archduke', etc.
Alfred Cortot, Jacques Thibaud & Pablo Casals
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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande, etc.
RecommendedJacques Jansen, Irène Joachim, Henri-Bertrand Etcheverry, Germaine Cernay, Paul Cabanel & Leila ben Sedira, Maggie Teyte & Alfred Cortot / Mary Garden & Claude Debussy
Chœurs Yvonne Gouverné & Orchestre Symphonique, Roger Désormière
Désormière conducts the definitively French Pelléas, luminously textured but intense. Young protagonists Jansen and Joachim studied with Debussy's repetiteur and the original Mélisande, Mary... —
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Building A Library, December 2025, Top Choice
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Haydn & Schubert: Piano Trios
Jacques Thibaud (violin), Pablo Casals (cello) & Alfred Cortot (piano)
