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The Earliest French Piano Recordings
Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Willaume, Louis Diémer, Vincert d'Indy, Raoul Pugno, Aimée-Marie Roger-Miclos, Gaston Régis, Francis Planté, Lucien Wurmser
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Wanda Landowska: The Complete Piano Recordings
Wanda Landowska (piano)
Chamber Orchestra, Walter Goehr
APR's three-disc album of Wanda Landowska the pianist...throws down the gauntlet at present-day convention and received wisdom. Few musicians have exerted their will and personality more strongly...overall,... —
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Taken as a whole, these performances throw open a window to a bygone era, revealing a musician less prone to what our modern ears might consider the wilful affectations of pianists like Hambourg... —
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Daring, insouciance, brilliant fingers? Yes. Precision? No. More importantly, Cortot's depth of expression, tonal beauty and unique musical imagination put him in a school of his own. —
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Special offer. Paderewski: The American Recordings
The Complete Victor Recordings, 1914-31
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (piano)
wonderful transfers giving us an unprecendentedly vivid idea of Paderewski’s vaunted ‘golden touch’ —
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The complete piano recordings of Nicolas Medtner
Volume 3 - The 1947 HMV recordings
Nicolas Medtner (piano)
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The Piano G & Ts Volume 2 - Recordings from the Gramophone & Typewriter era (1900-1907)
Incl. works by Mendelssohn, Massenet, Schubert
Alfred Grünfeld (Piano), Raoul Pugno (Piano), Natalia Janotha (Piano)
Gramophone and Typewriter (G&T) piano records have attained legendary status on account of their extreme rarity and the historical importance of most of the artists involved...These two volumes... —
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The Piano G & Ts Volume 3 - Recordings from the Gramophone & Typewriter era (1900-1907)
Incl. works by Saint-Saëns & Chaminade
Cécile Louise Chaminade (Piano), Camille Saint-Saëns (Piano), Gabriel Willaume (Violin), Meyriane Héglon (Mezzo Soprano)
Here is an important historical sound document... Cécile Louise Stéphane Chaminade (1857-1944) virtually invented French salon music and to be able to hear her complete recordings for the first... —
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Johann Strauss Jr: Transcriptions & Paraphrases for Solo Piano
Alfred Grünfeld (piano), Karol Szreter (piano), Sergei Rachmaninov (piano), Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano), Moriz Rosenthal (piano), Josef Lhevinne (piano), Otto Schulhof (piano), Stanislas Niedzielski (piano), Ernö Dohnányi (piano), Ania Dorfmann (piano), Louis Kentner (piano)
[These] excellent transfers have been ordered chronologically... The booklet and presentation are of the standard we have come to enjoy from this source. —
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To anyone not yet familiar with the playing of Barere the epithet ‘legendary’, far from being an exaggeration, almost understates his mercurial brilliance. —
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