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Historical Classical: Conductors
Featuring the conducting of FurtwÄngler, Knappertsbusch, Mitropoulos and Toscanini and more.

Digital Classical Recordings
Listed Alphabetically: Modern high-fidelity recordings of standard as well as modern repertoire by some of today's greatest artists. With an emphasis on contemporary American music, and featuring Ursula Oppens, the Mirecourt Trio, Igor Kipnis, and the Composers' Quartet.

Pristine Audio & Natural Sound

CD-1259(1) THE GODOWSKY EDITION, VOLUME 7: TRANSCRIPTIONS AND PARAPHRASES, ALBENIZ TO RICHARD STRAUSS. ALBENIZ-GODOWSKY: Triana from Iberia, Book II, No. 3 (concert arrangement); Tango in D, Op. 165 No. 2 (concert version). BIZET-GODOWSKY: Adagietto from L'Arlésienne. BOHM-GODOWSKY: Calm As The Night (Still wie die Nacht). KREISLER-GODOWSKY: Rondino on a theme by Beethoven. SAINT-SAËNS-GODOWSKY: The Swan. STRAUSS-GODOWSKY: Ständchen (Serenade), Op. 17 No. 2. GODOWSKY: Symphonische Metamorphosen Johann Strauss'cher Themen, Drei Walzer-paraphrasen für das Pianoforte zum Concert Vortrag: Künstlerleben; Die Fledermaus; Wein, Weib und Gesang. Total time: 65:37. DDD. UPC # 0-17685-12592-8.

BUZZ: Transcription is the genre most generously represented in Godowsky's compositional output, and the one for which he is best known; he made piano transcriptions (and études), of various kinds, from works by...[Continued here]

CD-1261(2) KOCZALSKI PLAYS CHOPIN: BROADCAST RECORDINGS FROM GERMAN RADIO · 1945 AND 1948. CD 1: (65:56) Mazurka No. 25 in B minor, Op. 33, No. 4*; Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 9, No. 1*; Nocturne No. 19 in E minor, Op. 72, No. 1*. Waltz No. 14 in E minor, Op. Posth.*; Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 45*; Mazurka No. 17 in B flat minor, Op. 24, No. 4*;Waltz No. 6 in D flat, Op. 64, No. 1 ("Minute") *. Prelude No. 15 in D flat major, Op. 28, No. 15 ("Raindrop") *; Waltz No. 3 in A minor, Op. 34, No. 2 ("Valse brillante")*. Polonaise No. 3 in A, Op. 40, No. 1 ("Military") * [all Rec. Feb. 6, 1948 in Studio Kleistsaal, RIAS, Berlin]. Mazurka No. 31 in A flat, Op. 50, No. 2* [Rec. Feb. 9, 1948 in RIAS Studio I, Berlin]. Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49 [Rec. April 5, 1948 in RIAS Studio I, Berlin*]. Nocturne No. 9 in B, Op. 32, No. 1 [Rec. Feb. 9, 1948 in RIAS Studio I, Berlin*]. Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. 66 [Recorded 1945 in Berlin]. CD 2: (74:25) Etude No. 8 in F, Op. 10, No. 8* [ Rec. April 5, 1948 in RIAS Studio I, Berlin]; Impromptu No. 1 in A flat, Op. 29* [Rec. Feb. 9, 1948 in RIAS Studio I, Berlin]. Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58* [ Rec. Apr. 5, 1948 in RIAS Studio I, Berlin]; Waltzes: No. 3 in A minor, Op. 34, No. 2 ("Valse brillante"); No. 4 in F, Op. 34, No. 3 ("Valse brillante"); No. 8 in A flat, Op. 64, No. 3 [Rec. Oct. 24, 1948 in Berlin]. Ecossaises, Op. 72: No. 1 in D; No. 2 in G minor; No. 3 in D flat [Rec.Oct. 24, 1948 in Berlin]. Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21, with Berlin Radio Orchestra [Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin] conductor, Sergiu Celibidache [Rec. Sept. 25, 1948 in Berlin]. Raul von Koczalski, piano Audio Restoration Engineer: Mark Obert-Thorn. Includes over 70 minutes of unissued material. * previously unreleased UPC# 017685-12612-3.

BUZZ: Raul Koczalski (3 January 1884, Warsaw - 24 November 1948, Poznań) was a Polish pianist who studied with Chopin's pupil Karol Mikuli and became an acclaimed Chopin interpreter of the first half of the 20th century...[Continued here]

West Hill Radio Archives

WHRA-6042(4) EMANUEL FEUERMANN: COMPLETE ACOUSTIC 78S & SELECTED LIVE PERFORMANCES. Featuring 18 CD premieres; includes all 1922-26 Parlophone, Telefunken, etc. 78s of works by Bach, Haydn, Dvorak, Schumann, Popper, et al. Also includes these rare live performances: Dvorak: Concerto op.104, Chicago S.O., Hans Lange 1-9-41; Bloch: Schelomo. National Orchestral Assoc., Leon Barzin 11-10-40; D'Albert: Concerto op.20 National Orchestral Assoc., Leon Barzin 4-22-40 Reicha: Concerto in A op.4 no.1 Live, National Orchestral Assoc., Leon Barzin 1-27-40 Beethoven: Son. in D op.102 no.2 (exc.) Town Hall, New York, Albert Hirsch, piano 2-2-41 Dvorak: Concerto op.104 National Orchestral Assoc., Leon Barzin 1-27-40 Strauss: Don Quixote op.35 Studio 8H, New York, NBC S.O., Arturo Toscanini (Mischa Mischakoff, vn, Carlton Cooley, va) 10-22-38. Sound restoration: Lani Spahr. Producer & note writer: Terry King. Total Time 4 hrs 57 min. EAN # 5-425008-377957. Special offer: 4 CDs priced as 3.

$34.99 from WHRA

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BUZZ: Feuermann was born in Galicia, Poland in 1902 and died in New York City in 1942. In his short life he was recognized as one of the greatest cellists of his time; his pall bearers included Toscanini, Ormandy, Serkin, Elman, Huberman, Schnabel, and Szell. From 1929-33, Feuermann taught at the Berlin Hochschule and collaborated with violinists Carl Flesch, Bronislaw Huberman, Szymon Goldberg, Joseph Wolfsthal and composer-violist Paul Hindemith-the latter three having formed a very successful string trio. The rise of Nazism in 1933 led to Feuermann's dismissal from the Hochschule. He then moved to London, along with Goldberg and Hindemith, and toured Japan and the United States (New York City); he then returned to Europe where he married Eva Reifenberg in 1935. After the premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's Cello Concerto with Sir Thomas Beecham, Feuermann moved to Zürich. He happened to be in Vienna at the time of the Anschluss, but fortunately, Huberman was able to help Feuermann and his family escape to Palestine; from there they moved to the United States. In 1938 he played with the NBC Symphony. Soon he was under contract with RCA Victor, and made several timeless trio recordings with Heifetz, Rubinstein and Primrose as well as recital repertoire-a body of work closely associated with his legacy which has been repeatedly reissued. He taught privately and at the Curtis Institute of Music for a few short months-from the fall of 1941 until his death in May 1942.

These CDs bring together Feuermann's rarest commercial recordings, many not available since their original production in the 1920s-those from the acoustic era, i.e., before the advent of the microphone. All of Feuermann's acoustic discs are here, including five with orchestra. In all, 18 pieces are new to CD, some of which represent Feuermann's first versions of familiar repertoire he went on to record electrically. It also gives us an insight into the daring and simplicity of his performances in his twenties, altogether spontaneous and direct. - During the 1937-38 concert season, Feuermann launched an unprecedented series of concerts with the National Orchestral Association, America's professional training orchestra under Leon Barzin, which continued through 1940. Several of these public performances were recorded and are issued here in greatly improved sound.

NOTE: The above is a West Hill Radio Archives release, not a Music & Arts issue!