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Great Pianists: Alfred Cortot (HMV Recordings 1931-1948) | Naxos - Historical 8112012

Great Pianists: Alfred Cortot (HMV Recordings 1931-1948)

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 8112012

Barcode: 0636943201275

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 2nd February 2009

Contents

About

Alfred Cortot was one of the very greatest pianists of the 20th Century, renowned above all for his intuitive, highly personal interpretations of Romantic masterpieces.

Drawn from sessions in London between 1931 and 1948, these recordings include a wonderfully poetic reading of Weber’s introspective and playful Second Piano Sonata, and intense yet subtly nuanced renditions of Liszt’s ground-breaking B minor Sonata, issued almost entirely from first takes, and Légende No.2.

Cortot’s own arrangements imbue Schubert’s Litanei and Brahms’s famous Lullaby with a heartfelt touch.

Contents:
Weber: Sonata No.2 in A flat Major, Op.39
Recorded on 10th March 1939 in EMI Studio No. 3, Abbey Road, London

Schubert: Ländler, D 790, Op.171
Recorded on 19th May 1937, EMI Studio No.3, Abbey Road, London

Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S 178
Recorded on 13th March 1939, Small Queen’s Hall, London

Liszt: Légendes, S 175/R 17: No.2 - St François de Paule marchant sur les flots
Recorded on 19th May 1937, EMI Studio No. 3, Abbey Road, London

Liszt: Études de concert, S 144: No.2 - La leggierezza
Recorded on 13th May 1931, Small Queen’s Hall, London

Schubert (arr. Cortot): Litanie auf das Fest Aller Seelen, D 343
Recorded on 19th May 1937, EMI Studio No. 3, Abbey Road, London

Brahms (arr. Cortot): Wiegenlied, Op.49, No.4
Recorded on 20th April 1948, EMI Studio No. 3, Abbey Road, London

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