Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Claude Achille Debussy, Gabriel Urbain Fauré, Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Ferencz Liszt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurice Ravel, Charles Camille Saint-Saëns
Performer: Gina Bachauer
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, London Orchestra
Conductor: Basil Cameron, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Alec Sherman
Number of Discs: 4
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Profil Medien
Catalogue: PH18018
Release: 2018
Size: 1.06 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
01. Announcement
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16
02. I. Allegro molto moderato
03. II. Adagio
04. III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 “Emperor”
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Adagio un poco mosso
07. III. Rondo: Allegro
CD 02
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Larghetto
03. III. Allegretto
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, K. 537 “Coronation”
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Larghetto
06. III. Allegretto
Bach: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BWV 564
07. I. Preludio
08. II. Intermezzo
09. III. Fugue
CD 03
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22, R. 190
01. I. Andante sostenuto
02. II. Allegro scherzando
03. III. Presto
04. Fauré: Ballade in F-Sharp Major, Op. 19
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit, M. 55
05. I. Ondine
06. II. Le gibet
07. III. Scarbo
Debussy: Pour le piano, L. 95
08. I. Prélude
09. II. Sarabande
10. III. Toccata
CD 04
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83
01. I. Allegro non troppo
02. II. Allegro appassionato
03. III. Andante
04. IV. Allegretto grazioso
Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173
05. VII. Funérailles
Liszt: 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244
06. No. 12 in C-Sharp Minor
07. Liszt: Rhapsodie espagnole, S254/R90, “Folies d’Espagne et jota aragonesa”
When Gina Bachauer – who was born in Athens in 1913 and died there during a concert tour in 1976 – made her first gramophone recordings in 1949, which can be heard on CD 3 of this set, she could already look back on an impressive career. Alfred Cortot and Sergei Rachmaninov were among her teachers; Dimitri Mitropoulos conducted her first public concert in Athens in 1935, and concert appearances all over Europe soon followed. When the Second World War broke out she was in Egypt, and while there she gave more than 600 concerts to the Allied troops. 1947 saw her resume her professional activities first in London and three years later – after a triumphant concert in Carnegie Hall in New York – in the USA as well. The State of Utah made her an honorary citizen, and the newly-opened Kennedy Center in Washington invited her to give the first solo recital in 1971. For John Barbirolli, she was the ‘glorious Greek’, and Yehudi Menuhin remembered her warm-hearted humanity. (Text adapted from the booklet notes, written by Jan Gärtner.)