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CD-1202(2) ERVIN NYIREGYHÁZI IN PERFORMANCE: LIVE RECORDINGS, 1972-1982. CD No. 1 (76:28): LISZT: Légendes: No. 1, & 2; "St. François d'Assise: la prédication aux oiseaux"; excerpts from the oratorio Die Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth (arr. Nyiregyházi); "Waldesrauschen"; "Sonetto 123 del Petrarca"; "Aux cyprès de la Villa d'Este"; "Au lac de Wallenstadt". BRAHMS: Intermezzo in E-flat Minor, Op. 118/No. 6. SCRIABIN: Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp. GRIEG: Lyric Pieces, Op. 54: No. 4, "Notturno". CD No. 2: (74:51) Tchaikovsky: "Valse" in A-flat Major; Romance in F Minor. DEBUSSY: "Pagodes"; La plus que lente. CHOPIN: Mazurka in C-sharp Minor, Op. 6/No. 2; Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 28/No. 10; Mazurkas in F Minor, Op. 63/No. 2 & in B Minor, Op. 33/No. 4; Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55/No.1; RACHMANINOFF (arr.Nyiregyházi): Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18, II: Adagio sostenuto; SCUBERT (arr. Nyiregyházi): "Der Wanderer" & "Heidenröslein". Restoration Engineer: Albert Frantz (2007). Extensive notes in English and Japanese by Kevin Bazzana, author of Nyiregyházi's biography Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick, published in 2007 in the U.S. and Canada; soon to appear in Germany and Japan as well. ADD. UPC# 017685-120220 BUZZ: Ervin Nyiregyházi (1903-87) is largely forgotten today, but he was one of the greatest and most idiosyncratic pianists of the twentieth century, and his eccentric personality and bizarre career have few parallels in the history of music. These late concert recordings, all but four released here for the first time, are representative of Nyiregyházi's art, and should help to rehabilitate a lost genius whose reputation has rarely matched his artistic stature. |
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CD-790(1) BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 9 IN D MINOR, OP. 125. Wihelm Furtwängler and the Philharmonia Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Choir, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano, Elsa Cavelti, contralto Ernst Häfliger, tenor, Otto Edelmann, baritone. Lucerne, 22 August 1954 (Furtwängler's last performance of this work). ADD. Total Time = 75:20. New digital restoration (2007) by Aaron Z. Snyder, using the revolutionary "harmonic balancing" technique. UPC# 0-17685-07902-3. BUZZ: Our previous CD release of this performance in 1995 earned critical superlatives like these: "A very broad, deeply felt, poetic reading" (Henry Fogel in Fanfare); and "A palpable culmination of an already dying tradition...a Choral that Richard Wagner surely would have cherished" (Robert Cowan in BBC Music Magazine). |
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