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Backhaus plays Chopin, Liszt, Schumann & Encore Pieces (1925-37) | APR APR6026

Backhaus plays Chopin, Liszt, Schumann & Encore Pieces (1925-37)

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Label: APR

Cat No: APR6026

Barcode: 5024709160266

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 28th September 2018

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Contents

Artists

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

Works

Albeniz, Isaac

Espana: Album Leaves (6), op.165 B37 (Seis hojas de album)
» II Tango (arr. Leopold Godowsky)
Iberia, Book 2
» no.3 Triana

Chopin, Frederic

Berceuse in D flat major, op.57
Etudes (12), op.10
Etudes (12), op.25
Impromptu no.4 in C sharp minor, op.66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu'
Preludes (24), op.28
» no.1 in C major
Waltzes (19)
» no.1 in E flat major, op.18 'Grande valse brillante'

Delibes, Leo

Naila
» Waltz (arr. Erno Dohnanyi)

Liszt, Franz

Concert Etudes (2), S145
» no.1 Waldesrauschen (Forest Murmurs)
Hungarian Rhapsodies (19), S244
» no.2 in C sharp minor
Liebestraume (3), S541
» no.3 Nocturne in A flat major
Soirees de Vienne: Valses caprices (9) d'apres Schubert S427
» no.6 in A minor
Widmung (Dedication), op.25 no.1 (Schumann), S566

Mendelssohn, Felix

A Midsummer Night's Dream
» Scherzo (arr. Hutcheson)

Moszkowski, Moritz

Caprice espagnol, op.37

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Don Giovanni, K527
» Serenata (arr. Wilhelm Backhaus)

Schubert, Franz

Marches militaires (3), op.51 D733
» no.3 in E flat major (arr. Wilhelm Backhaus)

Schumann, Robert

Fantasie in C major, op.17
Fantasiestucke (8), op.12
» no.2 Aufschwung
» no.7 Traumes Wirren
Nachtstucke, op.23
» no.4 in F major

Smetana, Bedrich

Polka in F major

Artists

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

About

Wilhelm Backhaus (1884–1969) left a 60-year recorded legacy which began in 1908, but the champion of Beethoven and Brahms we know from his later years performed a much wider repertoire before the war. This set focuses on this more ‘romantic’ repertoire – his Chopin études from 1928 were the first complete recorded cycle and still astonish with their virtuosity. His Schumann Fantasy is another landmark recording, the 78rpm era benchmark, and what a delightful surprise it is to hear him in his own spectacular transcriptions or in works by Albéniz and Moszkowski.

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