Historical - up to 35% off selected lines
Until 24th April 2024, we're offering up to 35% off over 3,500 selected historical recordings across a wide range of labels. Whenever possible we have managed to include downloads in this offer, selling all download formats at MP3 prices (with no reduction on MP3).
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Here are some examples of what makes Cortot special...The combination of poetic inwardness and virtuoso exuberance is magical. — More…
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Yes, the technique at full stretch was getting slapdash. But with a Kinderszenen as poised and poetic as this, you forgive the 70-something master just about everything. — More…
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Cortot's sweeping spontaneity is irresistible. The Weber is tremendous, and Liszt's Sonata (recorded in 1929, not 1939 as per the track-listing) has a hugely impressive albeit rather breathless... — More…
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In glorious tone quality, drama, visionary intensity and sheer poetry, few pianists have ever surpassed Cortot. This CD is a treat, if you don't mind wrong notes, and includes two totally different... — More…
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Cortot’s 1928 recording of the Second Sonata is one of the earliest studio recordings of the work. He takes dizzying tempos at various points: both the scherzo and the finale are rapid and threaten... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2007, Re-issue of the Month
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Documentation is good and the transfers too...These discs trace Cortot in the studio between 1947 and 1954 and reflect the vicissitudes of the time, and sometimes the toll taken on the pianist... — More…
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This great artist was notoriously nervous, but these last recordings, of favourite works by Chopin and Mendelssohn, capture perfectly a Romantic atmosphere which was shortly to disappear, and... — More…
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The old and ill master-pianist sprays wrong notes about even more than usual. There's some scintillating Chopin nonetheless, and Cortot's trademark supple lyricism in Schubert's Ländler. — More…
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