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Earl Wild: Franz Liszt · The 1985 Sessions [2 CD set]

Posted By : DanseDePuck | Date : 08 Nov 2011 00:13:00 | Comments : 4

Earl Wild: Franz Liszt · The 1985 Sessions [2CD set]
EAC rip | Flac, IMG+CUE, Log | 593 MB | Full 300 dpi scans | WinRar [5% recov. rec] | RS.com · MU.com · FSonic.com
Label: Ivory Classics # 72001 | Rel. 2001 | Rec: 1985 in New York City (DDD)

“From the notes: "Liszt is a composer who has been closely associated with Mr. Wild throughout his long career. In New York City in 1961, he gave a monumental recital celebrating the 150th anniversary of Liszt's birth. In 1986, honoring the 100th year of Liszt's death, he gave three recitals entitled "Liszt The Poet", "Liszt The Transcriber" and "Liszt The Virtuoso", in NY's Carnegie Hall. Championing composers such as Liszt long before they were fashionable, is part of the foundation on which Mr. Wild has built his long and successful career."”
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Earl Wild at 30 [Live Radio Broadcasts from the 1940's]

Posted By : DanseDePuck | Date : 06 Nov 2011 08:18:26 | Comments : 5

Earl Wild at 30 · Live Radio Broadcasts from the 1940's
EAC rip | Flac, IMG+CUE, Log | 265 MB | Full 300 dpi scans | WinRar [5% recov. rec] | RS.com · MU.com · FSonic.com
Label: Ivory Classics # 74003 | Rel. 2004 | Tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7: NBC early 1940's; Tracks 2, 8 & 9: ABC early 1940's

“From the notes: Earl Wild began performing on the radio in his home town of Pittsburgh in the late 1920's at the age of 12. He worked at Pittsburgh's KDKA radio station on and off for the next eight years until he went to New York City to work at the famous NBC radio network in Rockefeller Center. From 1937 to 1946 Earl Wild performed countless times on the radio, at NBC. There were many scheduled solo piano music periods on the radio at that time in which Mr. Wild would perform selections of his choice. Many of these wonderful old live radio broadcast performances have been lost but fortunately a few still remain on old 16" transcription acetates." by Christopher Weiss”
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Earl Wild: Brahms · Sonata in F minor, Op. 5 and Other Works

Posted By : DanseDePuck | Date : 03 Nov 2011 16:27:06 | Comments : 9

Earl Wild: Brahms · Sonata No. 3 in F minor & Other Piano Works
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Label: Ivory Classics # 72008 | Rel. 2002 | Rec.: May 5-6, 2002 (Tracks 1-5); 21-Sept-2000 (Tracks 6-11); 22-March-1982 (Track 12)

“From the notes (Some thoughts on the Sonata): In my 86 years on this planet, I have heard many great pianists play this monumental sonata, but for me Arthur Rubinstein remains quite special. His performances were outstanding because he best understood the strong rhythmical structure of this ingenious musical masterpiece. In Brahms' music generally, and especially in this piece, rhythmic and phrasing inconsistencies tend to weaken the structure.by Earl Wild”

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Les Rarissimes de Lili Kraus - Vol. II · Schubert [2 CDs]

Posted By : DanseDePuck | Date : 26 Nov 2010 20:31:41 | Comments : 4

Les Rarissimes de Lili Kraus - Vol. II · Schubert [2 CDs]
EAC rip | Flac, IMG+CUE, Log | 260 MB | Full 300 dpi Scans | WinRar [5% Rec] | MU · RS · FServe
Label: EMI No. 5 86471 2 | Rel. 2005 | Rec.: 1956 and 1957
with Homero de Magalahes · Willy Boskowsky

“From the notes:"The simplicity of phrasing, the natural, unforced elegance and the wonderful fluency of her playing have become emblematic of an art which effortlessly conjured up poetry. And it was Schubert, together with Mozart, who was the obsession of her musical life" Notes by Jean-Charles Hoffelé”


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Martha Argerich · Live at Verbier Festival | Bach · Bartók · Grieg · Lutoslawski · Mozart · Shostakovich [DVD9]

Posted By : DanseDePuck | Date : 20 Nov 2010 10:48:48 | Comments : 9

Martha Argerich · Live at Verbier Festival | Bach · Bartók · Grieg · Lutoslawski · Mozart · Shostakovich [DVD9]
Sound: PCM Stereo | DVD9 | NTSC | 16:9 ratio | 125 minutes | 6.53 GB
Medici Arts # 3078928 | Rel. 2008 | Full Scans | WinRar 5% Rec. Rec. | MU.com & FSonic.com
Bashmet · Bell · Capuçon · Kovacevich · Kraggerud · Maisky · Montero

“From the Notes: Though she is constantly in demand by the most prestigious orchestras, conductors and music festivals in Europe, Japan and America, chamber music occupies a significant part of her musical life. She regularly plays and records with pianists Nelson Freire and Alexandre Rabinovich, cellist Mischa Maisky and violinist Gidon Kremer: "This harmony within a group of people gives me a strong and peaceful feeling"...”
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Ferenc Fricsay · Music Transfigured: Remembering Ferenc Fricsay [DVD9] Une vie trop brève

Posted By : DanseDePuck | Date : 22 Aug 2010 14:39:40 | Comments : 5

Ferenc Fricsay · Music Transfigured: Remembering Ferenc Fricsay [DVD9] Une vie trop brève
Sound: PCM Stereo | DVD9 | NTSC | 4:3 ratio | Original Version: German, English | Subs: English, French
51 mins + 23 mins [Xtras] | 6.53 GB | Medici Arts # 3078528 | Rel. 2008 | Full Scans | WinRar 5% Rec. Rec. | MU.com
Directed by Gérald Caillat | A film by Stephen Wright & Gérald Caillat

“From the Notes:Although his international career lasted little more than a decade, from 1948 to 1960, Ferenc Fricsay's stylish and electrifying performances on the podium earned him fame as one of the most promising orchestral conductors of the second half of the 20th century. He worked relentlessly and his pursuit of absolute perfection made him both respected and feared amongst singers and musicians alike. And had he lived longer, he would undoubtedly have ranked amongst the greatest, easily on a par with a Bernstein or a Karajan....”
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Elisabeth Schumann · The Complete Bach Recordings [1927-1939]

Posted By : DanseDePuck | Date : 31 Jul 2010 21:34:44 | Comments : 5

Elisabeth Schumann · The Complete Bach Recordings [1927-1939]
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Label: Pearl [Pavilion Records]| Cat.No. GEMM CDS 9900 | Released 1991 | Recorded 1927-1939
Mass in B minor | "Wedding" Cantata | Bist du bei mir | with Friedrich Schorr, Walter Widdop, Margaret Balfour & Albert Coates

“From the notes: "The Story of This Recording: Jenny Lind's contribution to the first performances of the B minor Mass has a parallel in this recording where another opera singer, Elizabeth Schumann, is the soprano soloist in the first complete B minor Massto be committed to disc. While the Philharmonic Choir and London Symphony Orchestra needed much of the rehearsal time, sessions were so arranged as to take advantage of the presence in London of Elisabeth Schumann and the celebrated baritone, Friedrich Schorr, both under contract for the summer Season of opera at Covent Garden. Walter Widdop, the tenor, was also singing there, but he and Margaret Balfour, a mezzo soprano who was greatly esteemed for her work in oratorio, both lived in London. The conductor Albert Coates, normally associated with Russian music rather than with Bach's also had a comittment at Covent Garden, but was able to devote his complete concentration to the recording because his operatic performances were not scheduled until June. The recording was issued promptly in November 1929 on seventeen plum label 78s."”
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Walter Gieseking Aufnahmen des Hessischen Rundfunks · De Falla, Hindemith, Beethoven, Schumann & Chopin [2CDs]

Posted By : DanseDePuck | Date : 13 Jul 2010 23:31:21 | Comments : 4

Walter Gieseking Aufnahmen des Hessischen Rundfunks · De Falla, Hindemith, Beethoven, Schumann & Chopin [2CDs]
EAC rip + Logs | Flac, IMG+CUE | 209 MB | Full 300 dpi Scans | WinRar [rec. rec 5%] | RS.com
Label: Music & Arts | Cat.No. CD 1074[2]| Live recordings | Released 2001

“From the Notes: Although every truly great pianist has his own tone resulting from his total intrepretation, Gieseking perhaps had the most readily recognizable and the longest sustaining tone of all. His was a pure, transparent, nonpercussive tone of great dynamic range resulting from his phenomenal ear for prolonging vibrations, his masterful pedaling and his panlike inwardly-felt melodic outpouring. Music flowed from him effortlessly and enthusiastically, always colored by his innate sense of the exquisite - a beautiful landscape, the myriad colors of a butterfly wing or a flower. Yet for him tone was uncomplicated: "I have to hear beautiful sounds from my piano". written by Dean Elder”
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Myra Hess & Dimitri Mitropoulos [Live] with the NYPO in Works by Brahms · Haydn Variations · Piano Concerto No. 1 [1CD]

Posted By : DanseDePuck | Date : 10 Jul 2010 10:52:51 | Comments : 2

Myra Hess & Dimitri Mitropoulos [Live] with the NYPO in Works by Brahms · Haydn Variations · Piano Concerto No. 1 [1CD]
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Label: AS Disc | Cat.No. AS 610 | Very rare and OOP | Released in 1990 | Live performances 1955

“This volume released by AS Disc dedicated to Legenday Conductors, features Dimitri Mitropoulos and his soloist in both live venues is Myra Hess. He traveled from Paris to the US at the invitation of Serge Koussevitzky to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra and remained there fulfilling various commitments, leading the Minneapolis SO from 1937-1940 and at the same time was instrumental in the formation of the famous New York Philharmonic Orchestra where he was to remain as Director. It was there that Myra Hess, on one of her famous American Tours, met him and played under him.”

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Myra Hess · The Complete Solo American Columbia Rec.· Works by Bach, Scarlatti, Palmgren, De Falla, etc. [1 CD]

Posted By : DanseDePuck | Date : 10 Jul 2010 03:27:43 | Comments : 5

Myra Hess · The Complete Solo American Columbia Rec.· Works by Bach, Scarlatti, Palmgren, De Falla, etc. [1 CD]
EAC rip | Flac, IMG+CUE, Logs | 279 MB | Full 300 dpi Scans | WinRar [rec. rec 5%] | MU.com
Label: Biddulph | Cat. No. LHW 024 | Released 1994 | OOP and rare

“From the notes: It is no surprise that Bach featured prominently among her first records. The G major French Suite, in particular, was one of her specialties, and she often programmed a number of preludes and fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier in her recitals. Scarlatti was another composer admired by Hess, and her recording of the two sonatas vividly display her clarity of articulation and sensitivity of touch. Of particular interest among the American Columbia recordings are the works by 20th century composers. ... the selections by Debussy and Ravel which she recorded reveal her to be a superb colorist. ,,,, Perhaps most fascinating is the inclusion of De Falla's showy Ritual Fire Dance, although atypical of her preferred repertoire she carries it off with stylish aplomb." written by Wayne Kiley”
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Dame Myra Hess Volume 2 · Works by Schumman, MacDowell & Griffes [1 CD]

Posted By : DanseDePuck | Date : 09 Jul 2010 13:09:48 | Comments : 7

Dame Myra Hess Volume 2 · Works by Schumman, MacDowell & Griffes [1 CD]
EAC rip | Flac, IMG+CUE, Logs | 244 MB | Full 300 dpi Scans | WinRar [rec. rec 5%] | RS.com
Label: Pearl | Cat. No. GEMM CD 9463 | Released 1990 | OOP and rare

“From the notes: So often one finds in the history of music that the reputation of a great artist who was successful in life languishes after death for some time before being reappraised at its true worth; Dame Myra Hess is a good example. So significant were her National Gallery wartime midday recitals, in terms not only of musical excellence but also of spiritual significance, that the cumulative effect of them was that the memory of the hours of beautiful music-making was almost obscured by the success of the great undertaking itself. Posterity remembers the even rather that the artist." written by Charles Haynes”
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Dame Myra Hess Volume 1 · Works by Bach, Schubert, Beethoven [with Feuermann], Chopin, etc.

Posted By : DanseDePuck | Date : 08 Jul 2010 20:10:06 | Comments : 6

Dame Myra Hess Volume 1 · Works by Bach, Schubert, Beethoven [with Feuermann], Chopin, etc. [1 CD]
EAC rip | Flac, IMG+CUE, Logs | 304 MB | Full 300 dpi Scans | WinRar [rec. rec 5%] | RS.com
Label: Pearl | Cat. No. GEMM CD 9462 | Released 1990 | OOP and rare

“From the notes: Although Myra Hess became a legendary musical figure in Britain towards the end of her life (an image sharpened greatly by the series of lunchtime concerts give at the National Gallery to soothe the nerves of the war-weary Londoners) she had prior to 1939 enjoyed a greater success abroad than in the country of her birth. Indeed, she did not give a BBC broadcast until 1927, and her first English recordings (two discs only) were not made until 1931, some twenty-four years after a reasonably auspicious 1907 London début with Beecham..... The Beecham concert (it took place at the Queen's Hall on 14th November 1907) had been followed later in the same year by a Birmingham recital, in which she was joined by a young violinist who wa also subsequently to achieve great fame, her friend Joseph Szigeti." written by Charles Haynes”
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Ingrid Fliter Live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam - Works by Beethoven & Chopin

Posted By : DanseDePuck | Date : 08 Jul 2010 04:50:00 | Comments : 3

Ingrid Fliter Live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam · Works by Beethoven & Chopin
EAC rip | Flac, IMG+CUE, Log | 334 MB | Full 300 dpi Scans | WinRar [rec. rec 5%] | RS.com
Independent Label | J&R Productions | Released 2005 | Live Recital 14-Feb-2005

“This is the first CD that Ingrid Fliter recorded professionally and was for a time available from VAI [maybe still is]. Her career didn't take flight until she was awarded the Gilmore Prize but way before then, in 2000, she had already taken a 2nd Prize at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw against Yundi Li who won. She was the only competitor to play Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto, while all the other finalists played the first. I heard this broken up broadcast over a dial-up modem at my workplace in Buenos Aires, the only possible way for me to hear it at the time. I knew back then that she was a great pianist, that the hard work and endless practice hours had to catch the upward wind for her to become a household name. It is an honor to know her and I'm proud to call her a fellow-Argentine.”

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The Ten Sonatas for Violin and Piano · Claude Frank, piano & Pamela Frank, violin [4CD set]

Posted By : DanseDePuck | Date : 07 Jul 2010 14:57:29 | Comments : 14

The Ten Sonatas for Violin and Piano · Claude Frank, piano & Pamela Frank, violin [4CD set]
EAC rip + Logs | Flac, IMG+CUE | 943 MB | Full 300 dpi Scans | WinRar [rec. rec 5%] | MU.com
Label: Music & Arts | Cat. No. CD-1143 (4)| Released 2004 | DDD

“"Their performances are completely convincing-solid, robust, well-balanced interpretations, with exemplary rapport in phrasing and dynamics and an expert blend of the dramatic and lyrical elements". American Record Guide”

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Myra Hess · A vignette · Works by Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Brahms [2CD set]

Posted By : DanseDePuck | Date : 06 Jul 2010 12:33:03 | Comments : 12

Myra Hess · A vignette · Works by Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Brahms [2CD set]
EAC rip + Logs | Flac, IMG+CUE | 379 MB | Full 300 dpi Scans | WinRar [rec. rec 5%] | RS.com
Label: Appian Recordings | Cat# APR7012 | Released 1990
Hallé Orchestra, Leslie Heward, Jelly d'Aranyi (violin), Felix Salmond (cello), Gaspard Cassadó (cello)

“From the notes: Despite extraordinary international recognition Myra Hess never assumed the role of famed cosmopolitan soloist. Rather, she remained the archetypal English lady abroad. Even so she conquered America from the first, an appearance at New York in 1922 with a program that included Scarlatti and Bach, Franck and Schumann, Debussy and Chopin.--- Her American visits soon became annual events which, in turn, assumed the nature of extensive tours. ---- Myra Hess was preparing for an extensive tour of America when war was declared in 1939. Refusing to leave the UK, she soon became involved in a cause which eventually made her name a legend, the war-time National Gallery concerts. --- Chamber music was, quite simply, a life-long love that inexorably grew to a passion and which perhaps, reached its climax with appearances at Casals' Prades Festival in 1951-1952...." written by Bryan Crimp”

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