Composer: Mily Balakirev, Frédéric François Chopin, Ferencz Liszt, Robert Schumann
Performer: Vladimir Horowitz
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: RCA
Catalogue: 88697548122
Release: 2010
Size: 148 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Schumann: Fantasie in C major, Op. 17
01. I. Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen
02. II. Mässig – Durchaus energisch
03. III. Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten
04. Balakirev: Islamey – Oriental Fantasy
05. Chopin: Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60
Liszt: Legendes, S. 175
06. No. 2 – St. François de Paule marchant sur les flots
Sony Masterworks expands the catalogue of its Carnegie Hall Presents series with a set of previously unreleased recordings by legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz, one of the most important performers of classical music in the twentieth century. The Sony Masterworks release of the three albums in The Private Collection makes these dazzling performances, previously held in the archives of Yale University as part of Horowitz’s papers, available to the public for the first time.
In 1988, a year before his death, Horowitz donated to Yale University a treasure trove of original recordings composed of Carnegie Hall concerts and performances he gave during the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s. Horowitz had employed an engineer to make 78-rpm recordings of his Carnegie Hall concerts in this period, and he used them to review and judge his performances. Most of these mono recordings were originally contained on 12- and 16-inch acetate discs. They have been impeccably mastered, with the sound restored, from new transfers made in the Yale archives. Significant press accompanied the original announcement of the donation of these recordings to Yale, where Horowitz performed often through the years and was an assistant fellow of Silliman College.