Cyril Smith: The Complete Solo & Concerto Recordings | APR APR7313

Cyril Smith: The Complete Solo & Concerto Recordings

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Cat No: APR7313

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Release Date: 3rd September 2021

Contents

Works

Albeniz, Isaac

Chants d'Espagne, op.232
» V Seguidillas
Espana: Album Leaves (6), op.165 B37 (Seis hojas de album)
» II Tango (arr. Leopold Godowsky)
Iberia, Book 2
» no.3 Triana

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Cantata BWV22 'Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwolfe'
» Sancify us by Thy Goodness (arr. Walter Rummel)
Partita for solo violin no.1 in B minor, BWV1002
» IV Bourree (arr. Saint-Saens)

Balakirev, Mili

Islamey

Bliss, Arthur

Suite for piano
» Polonaise

Chopin, Frederic

Barcarolle in F sharp major, op.60
Nocturnes (21)
» no.5 in F sharp major, op.15 no.2
Scherzi (4)
» no.1 in B minor, op.20
Waltzes (19)
» no.6 in D flat, op.64 no.1 'Minute'
» no.11 in G flat major, op.posth.70 no.1

Delibes, Leo

Naila
» Waltz (arr. Erno Dohnanyi)

Dohnanyi, Erno

Concert Etudes (6), op.28
» no.6 in F minor
Variations on a Nursery Theme, op.25

Friedman, Ignaz

Viennese Dances (6) on motifs by Eduard Gartner
» no.2

Liszt, Franz

Grandes Etudes (6) de Paganini, S141
» no.3 in G sharp minor 'La campanella'

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor, op.18
Piano Concerto no.3 in D minor, op.30
Preludes (10), op.23
» no.5 in G minor
Preludes (13), op.32
» no.5 in G major
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op.43

Rubinstein, Anton

Etudes (6), op.23
» no.2 in C major 'Staccato Etude'

Schubert, Franz

Impromptus (4), op.90 D899
» no.3 in G flat major
Impromptus (4), op.142 D935
» no.3 in B flat major

Schumann, Robert

Romances (3), op.28
» no.2 in F sharp major

Artists

Cyril Smith (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Liverpool Philhramonic Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductors

Malcolm Sargent
George Weldon

Works

Albeniz, Isaac

Chants d'Espagne, op.232
» V Seguidillas
Espana: Album Leaves (6), op.165 B37 (Seis hojas de album)
» II Tango (arr. Leopold Godowsky)
Iberia, Book 2
» no.3 Triana

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Cantata BWV22 'Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwolfe'
» Sancify us by Thy Goodness (arr. Walter Rummel)
Partita for solo violin no.1 in B minor, BWV1002
» IV Bourree (arr. Saint-Saens)

Balakirev, Mili

Islamey

Bliss, Arthur

Suite for piano
» Polonaise

Chopin, Frederic

Barcarolle in F sharp major, op.60
Nocturnes (21)
» no.5 in F sharp major, op.15 no.2
Scherzi (4)
» no.1 in B minor, op.20
Waltzes (19)
» no.6 in D flat, op.64 no.1 'Minute'
» no.11 in G flat major, op.posth.70 no.1

Delibes, Leo

Naila
» Waltz (arr. Erno Dohnanyi)

Dohnanyi, Erno

Concert Etudes (6), op.28
» no.6 in F minor
Variations on a Nursery Theme, op.25

Friedman, Ignaz

Viennese Dances (6) on motifs by Eduard Gartner
» no.2

Liszt, Franz

Grandes Etudes (6) de Paganini, S141
» no.3 in G sharp minor 'La campanella'

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor, op.18
Piano Concerto no.3 in D minor, op.30
Preludes (10), op.23
» no.5 in G minor
Preludes (13), op.32
» no.5 in G major
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op.43

Rubinstein, Anton

Etudes (6), op.23
» no.2 in C major 'Staccato Etude'

Schubert, Franz

Impromptus (4), op.90 D899
» no.3 in G flat major
Impromptus (4), op.142 D935
» no.3 in B flat major

Schumann, Robert

Romances (3), op.28
» no.2 in F sharp major

Artists

Cyril Smith (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Liverpool Philhramonic Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductors

Malcolm Sargent
George Weldon

About

We tend to remember Cyril Smith (1909–1974) these days as the pianist who overcame the misfortune of a paralysing stroke to form a hugely successful duo for three hands with his wife, pianist Phyllis Sellick. Before then though, he had conquered the virtuoso repertoire in a most un-British fashion – making Rachmaninov the centre of his art and recording a series of warhorses in spectacular style. The Dohnányi Capriccio of 1929, his earliest recording, and part of a prize for a competition win, lays down the gauntlet in a coruscating performance to rival the Horwitz version released the same year. His recordings of the 2nd and 3rd Rachmaninov concertos and Rhapsody were for a time best-sellers. But there is poetry and charm too, particularly in the various encore-like transcriptions he set down.

This set brings together for the first time all the recordings he made as a solo player before his stroke.
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