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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | The Welte Mignon Mystery Volume 9
Beethoven: | Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major, Op. 31 No. 1 (Adagio) | Chopin: | Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2 Étude Op. 10 No. 3 in E major 'Tristesse' | Saint-Saëns: | Symphony No. 2 in A minor, Op. 55 (Adagio) Valse nonchalante, Op. 110 Samson et Dalila, Op. 47 (Act 1 Finale) Le Rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 Mazurka for Piano no 3 in B minor, Op. 66 Suite algérienne, Op. 60 Suite for Piano in F major, Op. 90 Valse minonne in E flat major, Op. 104 | Schumann: | Der Abschied, Op. 82, No. 9 |
Saint-Saens (Welte-Mignon Piano) Camille Saint-Saëns playing his own music and that of Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin, recorded in 1905 on the Welte-Mignon Piano. Anyone searching for really unusual repertoire will find what they are looking for in Tacets Welte-Mignon Mystery series. On this release we hear Camille Saint-Saens playing his own compositions. It is documented that Saint-Saens was the only pianist whom Franz Liszt would listen to… other than himself! “The doyen of French composers, recorded on piano rolls from 1905, offers a strongly idiosyncratic performance style as well as an astonishing fluidity of fingerwork.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2008 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Patrick Rapold - La Campanella
Bach, J S: | Prelude in C major, BWV567 Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068: Air ('Air on a G String') arranged Frey | Chopin: | Prelude Op. 28 No. 20 in C minor Waltz No. 14 in E minor, Op. post., KKIVa:15, B 56 | Gluck: | Orfeo ed Euridice (Orphée et Euridice): Dance of the Blessed Spirits | Horovitz: | Variations On A Theme From Bizet's Carmen | Liszt: | Grande Étude de Paganini, S. 141 No. 3 'La Campanella' Soirées de Vienne: valse-caprice No. 6 (after Schubert), D427 No. 6 Consolation, S. 172 No. 3 in D flat major | Moszkowski: | Étincelles, Op. 36 No. 6 | Rachmaninov: | Morceau de fantaisie in G minor (1890) Melodie in E Major, Op. 3 No. 3 | Ravel: | Jeux d'eau | Scriabin: | Étude Op. 2 No. 1 in C sharp minor |
Few artists manage to keep up two careers at the speed that Patrick Rapold does. Born into an actor’s family in 1975, he studied acting in Hannover and Zurich and at the European Film Actor School in Zurich. Since then, he has appeared in more than 30 films for cinema and television. As of 1996, he started giving solo concerts on the piano both at home in Switzerland and abroad. On La Campanella, his first album for Sony Classical, Patrick has regrouped some of the most famous piano encores in the catalogue. Bizet’s Carmen Variations and Chopin’s Prélude op. 28 No.20 along with Schubert’s Soirée de Vienne in Liszt’s adaptation of the piece, and obviously Liszt’s famous La Campanella – the title piece making this album a selection of some of the most highly esteemed Romantic piano works to date. Patrick Rapold resides in Zurich and Los Angeles. “An impressive technique, but little musical insight from a pianist / actor” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Boris Goltz: Complete Works for Solo Piano
A traditional late-Romantic composer in the heritage of Scriabin and Rachmaninoff, Goltz might have become as famous as these giants of Russian pianism had he not perished at just 28 during the siege of Leningrad. Russian-American pianist Sergei Podobedov unearthed his brilliant solo piano compositions from the 1930s and has recorded them for the first time on this CD. The booklet contains an extensive discussion of the forgotten composer and his work by the Russian musicologist Olga Skorbyashenskaya. Notes in English and Russian | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Emil Gilels Live in Moscow, Vol. 41978 recital from the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory
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| |  | Chopin - Etudes Op. 10 & Ballades
The pianistic universe of Chopin is radical, in its harmony, its articulation, its melismata, its phrasing. This radicality is heard both as expressive violence - Chopin is an extremist - and as a perpetual interrogation of the foundations of the piano. Its virtuosity is never demonstrative: one always encounters harmonic problems closely linked to the placing of the hand, in an equilibrium constantly compromised and immediately restored. Hugues Dufourt. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Clemens Berg plays Chopin, Berg, Webern, Trojahn & Ginastera
This recital is released as part of the Oehms Debut Series. Young pianist Clemens Berg (born 1987) won the piano competition of the Cultural Circle of German Commerce in the BDI in 2007. This is a fine debut recording and this young man is fearless in this challenging programme. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Rudolf Firkusny
Recorded: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 21 February 1980 “Those inclined to think of Rudolf Firkušný as a stylish but understated pianist are in for a surprise.
True, in Schubert's D946 pieces he remains a master of understatement. Playing with a patrician ease and grace, he none the less finds all of the Second Impromptu's central agitation, and if the quietly pulsing centre at the heart of No 3 sounds oddly diffident, he ends this whimsical caprice in dazzling style. In the Mussorgksy Pictures you sit back and listen to the highest musical quality caught, as it were, on the wing, but it is Firkušný's unleashing of power in the final pages of 'The Great Gate of Kiev' that hints at the sort of reserves he had up his sleeve when in his most outgoing mood.
For his Czech items (always at the heart of a Firkušný recital) he throws off Martinu's Fantaisie and Toccata with a special authenticity and aplomb, though even here he hardly prepares you for his Smetana encores. Smetana's piano music bristles with every virtuoso challenge, and the sheer excitement of Firkušný's storm though the C major Concert Study (taken at a gloriously indiscreet, hair-raising speed) has the audience cheering him to the rafters. Chopin's Op 63 No 3 Mazurka is spun off with the most gentle lift to its phrases, another reminder of a pianist garlanded with honours, particularly in his homeland and in his adopted America. Firkušný was the sort of musician other musicians flocked to hear and since he made relatively few commerical recordings, this thrilling disc, finely mastered, is doubly welcome.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “Firkušný was the sort of musician other musicians flocked to hear and since he made relatively few commercial recordings, this thrilling disc, finely mastered, is doubly welcome.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2008 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Chopin - Piano Pieces
This is fascinating programme given by pianist Momo Kodama. Some of the compositions on this
recording are of Chopin’s most popular pieces. Two of them, the Fantaisie Impromptu and 3
Ecossaises were first published and premiered in 1855, six years after the composers death. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | The Great Pianists Volume 7 - Vladimir HorowitzMasters of the Piano Roll series
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contain some of the finest playing from the Great Pianists of the Early 20th Century.
Some of the rolls from which these recordings originate, are nearly 100 years old and come from a
collection owned by Denis Condon who is one of the worlds most respected authorities on the
piano roll and has some 18,000 in his collection. “The tour de force in this programme of piano rolls comes in the fast sections of Tchaikovsky's Dumka and the Bizet Carmen Variations, both of which Horowitz dispatches at superhuman speed.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2008 **** | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | The Great Pianists Volume 8 - Arthur RubinsteinMasters of the Piano Roll series
These recordings were made in 1992 from the original piano rolls and were recorded on a brand
new Yamaha Concert Grand under Denis Condon’s supervision “Rubinstein's charismatic personality shines through this programme, ranging from a bristling Prokofiev 'Suggestion diabolique' and an ecstatic Debussy L'isle joyeuse, to authoritative Brahms, Chopin and Spanish works.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2008 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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