Historic Piano Recordings

[Holden]

The recordings of Simon Barere might fit the bill quite nicely. The virtuoso style that sems to be a part of this piano playing era is so evident with Barere and some of it is just jaw droppingly amazing!! His Islamey is a case in point.

[dirkronk]

The recordings of Simon Barere might fit the bill quite nicely. The virtuoso style that sems to be a part of this piano playing era is so evident with Barere and some of it is just jaw droppingly amazing!! His Islamey is a case in point.

I agree. And there are rather interesting comparisons to be heard between his earlier EMI recordings and the very late Carnegie Hall recordings he did in the years just before his death.

I don't know if these pianists would qualify in terms of exemplifying 19th century pianism, but they do offer distinct (and distinctive) differences compared to more modern performers: early Gabrilowitsch, Thyssens-Valentin, Elly Ney (early or late), Heinrich Neuhaus, Goldenweiser, Egon Petri...and I agree about Lamond, Friedman and Feinberg.

FWIW,

Dirk

[George]

Schnabel (LvB, Schubert)
R Serkin's mono LvB
Edwin Fischer (Schubert)
Cortot (Chopin, Schumann)
Gieseking (Debussy on VAI)
Rachmaninov
Feinberg (Bach WTC on Russian Compact Disc)

[dtwilbanks]

Thanks for all the feedback. Am looking into some of these...

[dtwilbanks]

http://www.arbiterrecords.com/musicresourcecenter/musicresourcecenter.html

[Que]

http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/IPAMpianofiles.html
http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/IPAM/buyersguide.html

Q

[m_gigena]

Thanks, Q.

Jeanne-Marie Darré was born in Givet, France on July 30, 1905. She studied with Philipp and made her Paris debut in 1920. Following this performance, Darré toured throughout Europe. In 1958, she became a professor of piano at the Paris Conservatory. For many summers, Darré taught a well-attended master class in the French city of Nice. Her first American concerts took place in 1962. Darré was particularly esteemed for her performances of Chopin, Liszt and Saint-Saëns. She died in 1999.

It is said she could play all of Saint-Saens concertos in one night. I also read somewhere she played the second concerto to Saint-Saens himself, who was very pleased. Fortunately, she made recording of the five works.
Her Chopin is also very good.

[dtwilbanks]

   tx q!!!

[sidoze]

Her Chopin is also very good.

doesn't exactly turn heads though

[sidoze]

not necessarily historical but Altara are releasing volume 3 of their Michelangeli series. Apparently first ever releases of live performances of Rachmaninoff's PC 4 and Mozart's PC 25.

http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail/2653880

Though of course that isn't exactly true about the Rachmaninoff. Tahra released it just a few months ago. Pipped to the post 


Naive are also putting all of Sokolov's commercial Chopin into a 2 CD set. Worth it for the op. 25 etudes which are far and away the most powerful out there.

[ezodisy]

some new Russian piano releases from APR

Early Ginzburg

Goldenweiser

Nikolayeva