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Myra Hess - Unissued Live Recordings | APR APR5646

Myra Hess - Unissued Live Recordings

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Label: APR

Cat No: APR5646

Barcode: 5024709156467

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 26th February 2007

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Contents

Artists

Myra Hess (piano)
Griller String Quartet

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Piano Quintet in F minor, op.34

Schumann, Robert

Carnaval, op.9

Artists

Myra Hess (piano)
Griller String Quartet

About

Although Myra Hess made many commercial recordings over her life-time, including some magnificent interpretations, she was not fond of the recording studio and much preferred the spontaneity of live performance. We are therefore delighted to present her here in two recordings which originated in radio broadcasts for the BBC.
 
The Schumann Carnaval was a studio recording made without an audience, but at the time it was made, almost certainly recorded in one take without editing - a true performance as opposed to her earlier HMV set of 78rpm discs, and an interpretation which certainly improves on that slightly disappointing set.
 
Of even greater importance is the previously unissued Brahms Piano Quintet. During World War II, when conventional evening concerts had been stopped, Myra Hess established, and ran, a series of lunch-time concerts at London’s National Gallery which became legendary and stretched to a total of 1,698! This is thought to be the only concert of which there is a surviving recording and what better to represent that magnificent series than Myra Hess herself alongside the foremost English string quartet of the time - the Griller - in one of the greatest works of the chamber repertoire. As an added bonus this work is completely new to the Hess discography. 
 
Schumann: Carnaval Op.9
BBC Studio Recital, Broadcasting House, London, 13th October 1950
Brahms: Piano Quintet in Fminor Op.34
National Gallery Concert, London 25th August 1942

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