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WEBER, C.M. von: Piano Sonata No. 2 / LISZT, F.: Piano Sonata / SCHUBERT, F.: 12 Deutsche (Landler) (Cortot) (1931-1948) |
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Composer: |
Franz Schubert, Carl Maria von Weber, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms |
Artist: |
Idil Biret, Vladimir Horowitz, Jeno Jando, Alexander Paley, Alfred Cortot, Andreas Rothkopf, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Elizabeth Hainen, Solomon, Mischa Levitzki, Alfred Brendel, Frederic Lamond, William Wolfram, Gerhard Oppitz, Emil Gilels, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Vlado Perlemuter, Carlo Zecchi, Herbert Schuch, Lisa Smirnova, Michael Endres, Alfonso Alberti, Margarita Hohenrieder, Minoru Nojima, Olga Kozlova, Haiou Zhang, Ben Schoeman, Nino Gvetadze |
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Catalogue No.: |
8.112012 |
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CD |
Barcode: |
0636943201275 |
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Alfred Cortot was one of the very greatest pianists of the 20th Century, renowned above all for his intuitive, highly personal interpretations of Romantic masterpieces. Drawn from sessions in London between 1931 and 1948, these recordings include a wonderfully poetic reading of Weber’s introspective and playful Second Piano Sonata, and intense yet subtly nuanced renditions of Liszt’s groundbreaking B minor Sonata, issued almost entirely from first takes, and Légende No. 2. Cortot’s own arrangements imbue Schubert’s Litanei and Brahms’s famous Lullaby with a heartfelt touch.
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