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Great Pianists: Louis Kenter | Naxos - Historical 8111223

Great Pianists: Louis Kenter

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 8111223

Barcode: 0747313322329

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th August 2007

Contents

Artists

Louis Kentner (piano)
Sadler’s Wells Orchestra

Conductor

Constant Lambert

Works

Balakirev, Mili

Piano Sonata in B flat minor

Chopin, Frederic

Bolero in A minor, op.19

Liszt, Franz

Annees de Pelerinage, 2nd Year (supplement), Venezia e Napoli, S162
» no.1 Gondoliera
» no.3 Tarantella
Annees de Pelerinage, 2nd Year, S161
» no.7 Apres une lecture du Dante 'Fantasia quasi Sonata' (orch. Constant Lambert)
Csardas macabre, S224
En reve - Nocturne, S207

Walton, William

Facade
» no.27 Valse

Artists

Louis Kentner (piano)
Sadler’s Wells Orchestra

Conductor

Constant Lambert

About

Described in 1987 by Yehudi Menuhin as “one of the most generously cultivated of men… He is a musician gifted with enormous talent, both creative to composer and executive – a wonderful pianist”, Louis Kentner settled in Britain where he quickly distinguished himself for his daring and monumental piano recitals. 
 
He gave the European première of Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto and, as these recordings testify, was a devoted and untiring advocate for the music of Franz Liszt. His recordings of Csárdás Macabre and En Rêve were the very first to appear on disc.
 
Kentner also championed Mili Balakirev whose Sonata in B flat minor here receives its first recording: “Louis Kentner plays the work superbly, with all the requisite virtuosity yet without any lack of delicate poetic insight” (The Gramophone, August 1951).
 
Recorded in London, 20th March, 1940.

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