Decca Sound: The Piano Edition
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Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat No: 4832243
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 55
Release Date: 10th November 2017
Contents
Artists
Martha ArgerichVladimir Ashkenazy
Wilhelm Backhaus
Leonard Bernstein
Jorge Bolet
Shura Cherkassky
Clifford Curzon
Ivan Davis
Bracha Eden
Alan Feinberg
Nelson Freire
Benjamin Grosvenor
Friedrich Gulda
Clara Haskil
Peter Jablonski
Julius Katchen
Peter Katin
Wilhelm Kempff
Alicia de Larrocha
Dinu Lipatti
Valentina Lisitsa
Kathleen Long
Radu Lupu
Moura Lympany
George Malcolm
Jean-Pierre Marty
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Olli Mustonen
John Ogdon
Cristina Ortiz
Kun-Woo Paik
Jorge Luis Prats
Andre Previn
Sviatoslav Richter
Pascal Roge
Arthur Rubinstein
Andras Schiff
Alexander Tamir
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Artists
Martha ArgerichVladimir Ashkenazy
Wilhelm Backhaus
Leonard Bernstein
Jorge Bolet
Shura Cherkassky
Clifford Curzon
Ivan Davis
Bracha Eden
Alan Feinberg
Nelson Freire
Benjamin Grosvenor
Friedrich Gulda
Clara Haskil
Peter Jablonski
Julius Katchen
Peter Katin
Wilhelm Kempff
Alicia de Larrocha
Dinu Lipatti
Valentina Lisitsa
Kathleen Long
Radu Lupu
Moura Lympany
George Malcolm
Jean-Pierre Marty
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Olli Mustonen
John Ogdon
Cristina Ortiz
Kun-Woo Paik
Jorge Luis Prats
Andre Previn
Sviatoslav Richter
Pascal Roge
Arthur Rubinstein
Andras Schiff
Alexander Tamir
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
About
Includes the only Decca recordings by piano luminaries Argerich, Rubinstein, Lipatti, Michelangeli, Bernstein and Haskil.
Select recordings played on composers’ own pianos – Thibaudet playing Chopin’s piano, Schiff and Malcolm on Mozart’s fortepiano.
Award-winning recordings include: Larrocha Ravel Concertos (Grammy Award), Mustonen Shostakovich 24 Preludes (Edison and Gramophone Awards).
Previously unpublished recordings included – Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.2 with Joyce; Argerich/Schumann with Chailly (first time on CD – her first Decca recording).
First international CD releases include: Rogé: Bartok Concertos 1-3 · Kathleen Long: Mozart Concerto No. 24 (Van Beinum) · Friedrich Gulda’s first Decca recordings · Eden & Tamir: Two-Piano Encores · Kempff’s early Decca recordings of sonatas by Schubert and shorter pieces by Bach, Handel, Rameau, Couperin, Beethoven, et.al. · Wilhelm Backhaus’ 1954 Carnegie Hall Recital
Repertoire:
- All five Beethoven Concertos: Gulda (Nos. 1 & 2), Lupu (Nos. 3 & 5), Haskil (No.4), Mustonen (Violin Concerto, transcription for piano)
- Both Brahms Concertos: Rubinstein (No.1), Ashkenazy (No.2); the Ravel Concertos with Larrocha (Grammy-Award winning recordings)
- Chopin’s complete works for piano and orchestra (Kun-Woo Paik)
- Mozart Concertos on fortepiano (Levin) and pianoforte (Curzon, Long, Bernstein)
- Encores/Transcriptions from Kempff (his own transcriptions of Bach, Beethoven and Handel); Cherkassky’s first Decca recording “Kaleidoscope” (complete on CD internationally for the first time); Grainger’s arrangements of Fauré and Gershwin on “The American Virtuoso” – one of the most captivating Argo recordings from the 90s with the ‘rebirth’ of the label; and Godowsky’s notoriously difficult arrangements of Chopin’s Études and Waltzes
- Music-making with friends: Piano Four-Hands and Two Pianos – Schiff & Malcolm, Ashkenazy & Previn, Katchen & Marty, Curzon & Britten; Rogé & Ortiz; Eden & Tamir
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