SUPRAPHON New Release February 2011 - Gillmore Music

GHCD 2367
GHCD 2369/70
GHCD 2377
NEW RELEASES
GREA REAT PIANISTS IANISTS - VOL OLUME UME 2
Alexander Brailowsky (piano) with the Boston Symphony Orchestra,
Serge Koussevitsky (conductor); Shura Cherkassky (piano);
Rudolf Serkin (piano) with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
Of New York, Dimitri Mitropoulos (conductor)
This second release in Guild’s series of Historic ‘Three Great Pianists’ recordings
features live performances from Alexander Brailowsky, Shura Cherkassky and
Rudolf Serkin, recorded between 1945 and 1958, and intriguingly including two
performance of Liszt’s virtuoso ‘Don Giovanni’ Fantasy played by Cherkassky.
Throughout this CD, here is pianism of a consistently high quality, from three
masters of the keyboard from the latter half of the 20th-century. The conductors -
Serge Koussevitsky in the Mozart, and Dmitri Mitropoulos in the Richard Strauss
- were themselves amongst the greatest to hold senior positions with two great
American orchestras, lending artistry to this release which is quite unique.
Already available:
GHCD 2349 - Great Pianists, Vol. 1 - Backhous, Kraus, Rubinstein
T OSCANINI
- CHRISTMAS
OSCANINI - CHRISTMAS
DAY & F
NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini
& FAREWELL
AREWELL CONCERTS ONCERTS
This double album constitutes one of the most important issues of Toscanini’s
recorded legacy in that it combines in these two CDs the first ever broadcast
concert the Maestro gave with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, an orchestra
founded expressly for him in 1937 in New York, and the last - his final appearance
with the Orchestra in April 1954. A great deal of interest therefore attaches to these
two events, combined for the first time as a commercially issued package - a true
‘hail and farewell’ (Ave Atque Vale) to the art of the conductor whom many
reagard as the greatest of all.
RUDOLF UDOLF GANZ ANZ AS PIANIST IANIST AND
AND CONDUCTOR ONDUCTOR
Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rudolph Ganz
Rudolph Ganz (piano)
Rudolf Ganz (1876-1972) was one of the most remarkable Swiss musicians of the
20th-century, as pianist, teacher and conductor. From his earliest days he knew,
performed and recorded music by the latest composers before World War I, and
when he went to America he was conductor of the New York Philharmonic and
Chicago Symphony Orchestras for many years. He continued to give concerts in
his 80s as a pianist, and the range of his achievements is considerable. This new
CD is a magnificent tribute to a great musician, friend of Bartok, Korngold and
Busoni - Ravel dedicated one of his most famous piano works to Ganz - and
conductor who gave the world premieres of music by Copland and Elliott Carter,
among many others. On this CD, we have recordings from piano rolls of 1913, and
a very rare performance of Grieg’s ‘Holberg Suite’ recorded in the USA in the late
1940s. There are rare photographs and the booklet notes are
fascinatingly detailed. A most important record.
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