Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8111219
Release: 2012
Size: 245 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Frescobaldi: Fugue in G minor
Galuppi: Keyboard Sonata in C Minor, Illy No. 34
02. I. Larghetto. II. Allegro
03. Mozart: Prelude
Mozart: Fantasia (Prelude) & Fugue in C major, K394
04. Fugue
05. Mendelssohn: Rondo capriccioso in E major, Op. 14
06. Chopin: Variations brilliantes in B flat major on ‘Je Vends des Scapulaires’, Op. 12
Brahms: Intermezzi, Op. 117
07. No. 2 in B-Flat Minor
08. Wagner: Albumblatt in E flat major
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37
09. VI. June: Barcarolle
Moszkowski: New Spanish Dances Op. 65
10. No. 1, Allegro ma non troppo
11. No. 3, Habanera: Allegretto
12. Lack: Valse Arabesque, Op. 82
13. Mayerl: Marigold
14. Mayerl: Robots, Op. 81
15. Williams: Luciernagas en laredecilla de mi china, Op. 72, No. 7
Williams: Milongas, Op. 64
16. XVIII. La milonga del tropero
Philipp: 3 Etudes de concert en doubles notes, Op.56
17. No. 2 in D-Flat Major
18. No. 1 in F Major
Scriabin: 8 Etudes, Op. 42
19. No. 3 in F-Sharp Major
Marx: 6 Piano Pieces
20. No. 2, Praludium
21. Poulenc: Humoresque
Griffes: Fantasy Pieces, Op. 6
22. No. 3, Scherzo
The fifth volume in this much admired series offers another fascinating anthology. Of the 17 pianists, the two oldest are the long-lived Cornelia Rider-Possart (1865-1963) who can be heard on an exceptionally rare, non-commercial 1926 Berlin disc, in the first recording of Scriabin’s Etude, Op. 42, No. 3, and Etelka Freund (1879-1977), a pupil of Brahms, who performs one of his Intermezzos in 1952. Jean Melville, a distant relation of Arthur Sullivan, plays Valse arabesque in London in 1923, whilst Johana Harris who, together with her husband, the American composer Roy Harris, enjoyed a highly successful career, can be heard playing Frescobaldi in Los Angeles.