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Download Booklet 111065 bk Cortot4 EU 13/9/06 15:44 Page 5 pomp Cortot could bring to such a work, aided by a well recorded such as the Trois Nouvelles Etudes and the two 8.110065 recorded Steinway piano. Nocturnes, Op. 55. The recording of the Polonaise- Great Pianists • Cortot A recording by Cortot of the Polonaise-Fantasie, Fantasie is perhaps not the most successful of Cortot’s ADD Op. 61, was never issued during his lifetime. He had recordings, certainly the opening is rather more brusque recorded it in 1943 in Paris when he was attempting to than fantastic, but all of Cortot’s penetrating drive, set down all of Chopin’s works for French HMV. This energy and vision are there, and it certainly deserves to was never issued, but he recorded the work again in be heard. October 1947 in London during sessions where he was recording works of Chopin that he had not previously © 2006 Jonathan Summers CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 and 3 8.111035 Polonaises Producer’s Note The sources for the recordings featured here were British HMV shellac discs except for the acoustic Grande Polonaise, which came from a U.S. Victor pressing, and the unissued “My Joys”, whose source was a vinyl test 8.111052 pressing. One of the aims of this series of Cortot’s 78-era Chopin recordings is to present versions of these works which have not generally been available on CD, so I have included the 1928 version of the Funeral March Sonata (which EMI passed over in favor of his 1933 remake in their Cortot/Chopin boxed set) and the 1933 version of the B minor Sonata, which makes its first-ever CD appearance here. The B flat minor Sonata was rather dimly recorded and was issued on particularly noisy surfaces; its rarity, The Naxos historical label aims to make available the greatest recordings in the history of recorded music, in the best however, compels its inclusion in this series. The same applies to the unissued Polonaise-Fantasie, which came and truest sound that contemporary technology can provide. To achieve this aim, Naxos has engaged a number of from worn shellac tests. Although Cortot recorded the Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise complete in Japan respected restorers who have the dedication, skill and experience to produce restorations that have set new standards Alfred Cortot in 1952, its late date puts it beyond the purview of the current series. in the field of historical recordings. 1923 - 1947 Recordings Mark Obert-Thorn 8.111065 5 8.111065 6 111065 bk Cortot4 EU 13/9/06 15:44 Page 2 Fryderyk CHOPIN (1810-1849) 3 Chants Polonais, Op. 74 Alfred Cortot (1877-1962) (amongst other works) at a session in ‘C’ Studio of the in the repertoire of practically every pianist of the first (transcribed by Liszt) 8:02 Small Queen’s Hall on 11th December 1928. Although half of the twentieth century and have been recorded by CHOPIN: Sonatas • Polonaises Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 17:01 9 Spring (Wiosna) 2:34 a Pleyel piano was used for both 1928 sessions there is a such great pianists as Moritz Rosenthal, Ignace ‘Funeral March’ 0 The Ring (Pierscien) 2:05 The son of a French father and Swiss mother, Alfred America, and during his second tour in 1920 he played noticeable difference in sound quality because most of Paderewski, Leopold Godowsky and Josef Hofmann. 1 Grave; Allegro 4:51 ! My Joys (Moja piesczotka )* 3:23 Cortot was born in Nyon, Switzerland in 1877. During all five of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos in two the sonata was issued from the poorer quality Kingsway Cortot recorded four of the six songs on 10th March 2 Scherzo* 4:22 Recorded 10th March, 1939 his childhood the family moved to Paris and at the age evenings and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in Hall recording. Only the Scherzo comes from the ‘C’ 1939 and two of these, the rarely heard Spring and The 3 Marche funèbre 6:25 in EMI Abbey Road Studio No. 3, London of nine young Alfred joined the Paris Conservatoire, D minor, Op. 30, with the composer present. Also at Studio session. Cortot infuses his performance with an Ring were issued. The other two songs recorded at that 4 Finale (Presto) 1:23 Matrices: 0EA 7591-2 and 7592-1 where he studied piano first with Emile Descombes this time he founded the Ecole Normale de Musique for urgency and sweeping energy throughout; he recorded session were My Joys and The Maiden’s Wish; these Recorded 5th June, 1928 in Kingsway Hall and *2EA 7593-1 (1829-1912) and, from the age of fifteen, with Louis which he appointed a hand-picked staff. Cortot himself the work again for HMV at their Abbey Road Studios were not issued, and My Joys appears here from a test and *11th December, 1928 in Queen's Small Hall, First issued on HMV DA 1682 Diémer (1843-1919). Cortot made his début in 1897 taught there until 1961; his most famous students on 8th July 1933. pressing. All were recorded on a Steinway piano and London and *unissued on 78 rpm with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, include Magda Tagliaferro, Clara Haskil and Yvonne The Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58, was Cortot’s wonderful tone quality can be savoured, Matrices: CR 2053-1A, *Cc 15436-2, Op. 37, and gave piano duet recitals with Edouard Lefébure. first set down by Cortot in Paris on 20th and 21st May particularly in My Joys. At the same recording session CR 2055-1A and CR 2056-2A @ Grande Polonaise, Op. 22 4:49 Risler (1873-1929), playing arrangements for four Cortot was a great artist whose interpretations were 1930 but this was not issued. He recorded it again for Cortot recorded Weber’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in A flat First issued on HMV DB 1250 and 1251 Recorded 5th February, 1923 in Camden, hands of music by Wagner. His enthusiasm for the often on a spiritual level. He managed to convey a HMV on 12th May 1931 in London and this was issued which was issued, and Ravel’s complete Gaspard de la New Jersey German composer led to his appointment as choral depth of meaning through his playing and became on four ten-inch discs from a total of twenty two takes Nuit which was not issued owing to damaged matrices Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 23:22 Matrix: C 27366-3 coach, then assistant conductor at Bayreuth, working associated with the works of Schumann, Debussy and recorded that day. Between 4th and 9th July 1933, and he unfortunately never recorded the work again. 5 Allegro maestoso 8:39 First issued on Victor 74824 under Felix Mottl and Hans Richter. Cortot’s particularly Chopin. However, when he played however, Cortot recorded a huge amount of Chopin’s Cortot only recorded Chopin’s Andante Spianato 6 Scherzo (Allegro vivace) 2:32 experiences in Bayreuth left him eager to introduce Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Leopold music for HMV including the Fantasie in F minor, Op. and Grande Polonaise, Op. 22, complete when he was 7 Largo 7:06 # Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 6:30 Wagner’s music to French audiences, and in 1902 he Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1920 one 49, the Etudes, Op. 10, Berceuse, Op. 57, Tarantelle, in Japan in 1952. He recorded just the Polonaise, 8 Finale (Presto non tanto) 5:05 ‘Heroic’ founded the Société des Festivals Lyriques, through reviewer passed a comment repeatedly used in Op. 43, Polonaise in A flat, Op. 53, Barcarolle, Op. 60, however, for Victor on 5th February 1923 in Camden, Recorded 6th July, 1933 Recorded 4th-5th July, 1933 which in May of the same year he conducted the Paris descriptions of Cortot’s playing, ‘Alfred Cortot the complete Preludes, Op. 28, and the Four New Jersey. This is the only acoustic recording on this in EMI Abbey Road Studio No. 3, London in EMI Abbey Road Studio No. 3, London première of Götterdämmerung. The following year explores the spiritual depths of music. In the most Impromptus. At this time he also recorded both the B compact disc, but being made right at the end of the Matrices: 0B 5226-3, 5227-2, 5228-1, 5229-2, Matrices: 2B 5205-1 and 5206-3 Cortot organized another society enabling him to give genuine and unaffected way he is among the most minor and B flat minor piano sonatas and the Four acoustic era the sound is particularly good for its age. 5230-1, 5231-2, 5232-2 and 5233-1 First issued on HMV DB 2014 performances of major works such as Brahms’s poetic of pianists.’ Ballades. All these recordings were made in No. 3 Critics of Cortot’s technique can be silenced by this First issued on HMV DA 1333 through 1336 Requiem, Liszt’s St Elisabeth, Beethoven’s Missa Cortot first recorded the Piano Sonata No. 2 in B Studio at HMV’s Abbey Road location where the best stunning performance in which Cortot understands $ Polonaise No. 7 in A flat major, Op. 61 9:43 Solemnis and Wagner’s Parsifal, and not long after he flat minor, Op. 35, by Chopin on 5th December 1927 at possible sound of the day could be obtained. It is completely Chopin’s use of the decorated melodic line. ‘Polonaise-Fantasie’ became conductor of the Société Nationale, promoting a session where he also recorded the complete probably for this reason that HMV issued both Chopin At nearly five minutes, the side length of the 78 rpm Recorded 15th October, 1947 works by contemporary French composers.
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