This collection features some of the greatest composers ever to record, along with disciples playing pieces by their masters.

The disciples fall largely into two main ‘schools’: the Chopin/Schumann axis and the Liszt/Leschetizky group, offering piquant contrast in the piano styles that survived in the playing of Artur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz, respectively.

The recordings were selected for performance quality as well as historical and sonic considerations.

Contents:
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921)
Saint-Saëns: Marche militaire française, arr. from Suite algérienne, Op.60
Saint-Saëns: Rêverie du soir à Blidah, arr. from Suite algérienne
Recorded: Paris, November 24, 1919

VINCENT D’INDY (1851-1931)
D’Indy: Lac vert, from Tableaux de voyage, Op.33, No.4
D’Indy: Danses rythmiques, from Poème des montagnes, Op.15
Recorded: Hayes, Middlesex, June 7, 1923

CÉCILE CHAMINADE (1857-1944)
Chaminade: L’Enjôleuse (The Flatterer), Op.50
Recorded: London, c. Nov. 28, 1901

EDVARD HAGERUP GRIEG (1843-1907)
Grieg: Norwegian Bridal Procession, from Pictures from Folk Life, Op.19, No.2
Grieg: Gangar, ‘Peasants’ March’, from Lyric Pieces, Op.54, No.2
Recorded: Paris, May 2, 1903

ENRIQUE GRANADOS (1867-1916)
Granados: Danza española No.10, ‘Danza triste’
Granados: Improvisation on El pelele (No.7), from Goyescas
D Scarlatti/Granados: Sonata No.10, after Longo 250 [K.190] in B flat major
Recorded: Barcelona c. 1912

ILONA EIBENSCHÜTZ (1873-1967)
Brahms: Waltz in E major and Waltz in A flat major, Op.39, Nos 2 and 15
Brahms: Ballade in G minor, from Klavierstücke, Op.118, No.3 (abbr.)
Recorded: London, December 22, 1903 / London, December 16, 1903

ALFRED GRÜNFELD (1852-1924)
Johann Strauss II, arr. Grünfeld: Frühlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), Op.410
Johann Strauss II, arr. Grünfeld: Soirée de Vienne
Mozart, arr. Schulhoff: Minuet, from Symphony No.39 in E flat major, K.543
Recorded: Vienna late 1905 / Vienna October 26, 1910 / Vienna October 25, 1910

MARIE BAUMAYER (1851-1931)
R Schumann: Studie für den Pedal-Flügel in As-Dur (Étude for Pedal Piano in A flat major), Op.56, No.4
Recorded: Vienna? c. 1910

NATALIA JANOTHA (1856-1932)
Chopin: Fugue in A minor, Op.Posth.
Recorded: London December 10, 1904

ALEKSANDER MICHALOWSKI (1851-1938)
Chopin: Waltz in C sharp minor, Op.64, No.2
Recorded: Warsaw late 1905

ARMAND GEORG RAOUL VON KOCZALSKI (1885-1948)
Chopin: Polonaise No.6 in A flat major, Op.53, ‘Héroique’
Recorded: Berlin c. 1924

VASSILY SAPELLNIKOFF (1868-1941)
Tchaikovsky: Humoresque in G major, Op. 10, No.2
Recorded: London c. January 1924

MARK HAMBOURG (1879-1960)
Byrd: Lord Salisbury’s Pavane / Blow: Fugue in C / Bull: King’s Hunting Jygge
Recorded: Hayes, Middlesex, October 19, 1915

ARTHUR DE GREEF (1862-1940)
Grieg: Puck, from Lyric Pieces, Op.71, No.3
Recorded: Hayes, Middlesex, September 26, 1922

FREDERIC LAMOND (1868-1948)
Liszt: Gnomenreigen
Recorded: Hayes, Middlesex, November 7, 1921

ARTHUR FRIEDHEIM (1859-1932)
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 (abbr.)
Recorded: New York c. 1917