111217 bk WomenPno 03 14/4/07 12:40 Page 12 Notes and Acknowledgements 8.111217 With this volume of the Historical Anthology of Women Pianists, we at last confront the frustrating gaps in the Great Pianists historical record documenting the careers of several of the artists we are including in this series. It is a dilemma ADD born of the place of women in music in general - as we have said, the achievements of women artists in general and women musicians in particular have been shamefully ignored until recently - and the principal reason for this series has been to redress this neglect. Though this neglect thankfully did not include the recording companies that preserved the performances we have discovered in the course of preparing this series, we must apologize in advance for the scanty trail we have so far WOMEN AT THE PIANO discovered for several of the artists included in this volume, and we appeal to our auditors for any information they may be able to share about these artists that has so far not come to our attention. A project of this scope and size requires due diligence and asistance from scholars, collectors and librarians. Since An Anthology of Historic Performances the recordings are rare and scarce, we have relied on many musical colleagues to provide advice, their discerning ears, their extensive collections, and willingness to help in order to preserve and share recordings not commonly heard today. Special thanks go to Peter Bromley, Paolo Zeccara, and to archivist and discographer Michael Gray for Volume 3 making sure that the historical data was accurate. Many thanks to engineer and collector Richard Wahlberg, historian and collector Lance Bowling, pianist William Corbett-Jones, and researcher Terry McNeill. Additional thanks go to Michael Gartz and Peter Ford for their advice, and for searching and locating extra copies of some of the recordings. Previously Available: Women at the Piano, Vol.1 (Naxos Historical 8.111120) Women at the Piano, Vol.2 (Naxos Historical 8.111121) 8.111217 12 111217 bk WomenPno 03 14/4/07 12:40 Page 2 Women at the Piano Vol. 3 rare musical nature.” This auspicious début began a Székely at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest major career that included solo tours, chamber concerts (graduating in 1938), with Professor Robert An Anthology of Historic Performances 1928-1954 with the Budapest Quartet and many other ensembles, Teichmuller at the Leipzig Conservatory, and with Paul and appearances with most of the important orchestras. Weingarten of the Vienna Conservatory. She also won Annarosa TADDEI (b.1918) Upon her return to New York, she performed frequently the Grand Prix de l’Académie Franz Liszt. In 1946 she 1 Sandro Fuga: Studio N. 1 1:39 on radio. From November 1938 to March 1939 she was invited to participate in the Marguerite Long / (CETRA AT0230 (54200F.C.)) • Recorded in Rome, 6th May 1950 appeared on live studio broadcasts over WOR in an Jacques Thibaud competition in Paris as one of several historic series of all of the Mozart piano concertos, young European Jewish musicians brought there by the Annie d’ARCO (1920-1998) conducted by Alfred Wallenstein. During the next American Joint Distribution Commission (a fellow 2 Felix Mendelssohn: Étude in F Major, Op. 104, No. 2 3:21 decade she continued to perform a wide variety of Hungarian, Hedy Schneider won that year). Sir (Pathé PDT274 (CPTX972-21)) • Recorded in Paris, 16th March 1951 concertos (Mischa Portnoff, Liszt No. 2, Kabalevsky, Malcolm Sargent first brought her to the attention of the No. 2, d’Indy, Prokofiev No. 3, Rimsky-Korsakov, and British public after a successful orchestral concert, and Rosalyn TURECK (1914-2003) others), and began to devote herself more fully to the since that time her solo and concerto appearances in 3 J.S. Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808: Gigue 1:18 two greatest musical joys in her life, chamber music and London during the 1950s were widely hailed. She (Victor 11924-B) • Recorded in New York, 3rd June 1936 teaching. She appeared frequently with the cellists appeared as a soloist with such conductors as Sir Adrian Joseph Schuster and Leonard Rose, violinists William Boult, André Cluytens, Eugen Jochum, Josef Krips, Ethel LEGINSKA (1886-1970) Kroll, Joseph Fuchs, Mishel Piastro and Georges Rafael Kubelík, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Konstantin 4 Franz Schubert: Moment Musical in F Minor, Op. 94, No. 5 2:40 Enesco, the Budapest String Quartet, and with Benny Silvestri and Walter Susskind. In 1963 she was invited (Columbia 17015-D (145736)) • Recorded in New York, 8th March 1928 Goodman recorded the Brahms Sonata in E flat major. to make her début in the United States by the She taught at the Curtis Institute of Music, was Visiting Rockefeller Institute. Subsequently she made her New Isabelle YALKOVSKY (Byman) (1906-1981) Professor of Music at the University of Southern York début with a recital at the Town Hall which was 5 Leopold Godowsky: Triakontameron: Alt-Wien 2:06 California, and and guest lecturer at New York outstandingly successful. Madame Rév now makes her (Victrola 4115-A) • Recorded in New York, 11th March 1929 University. She also conducted master-classes for home in France. Still quite active, between her travels to pupils and teachers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the Rubin Japan, Hong Kong, the Middle East, Africa and Maro AJEMIAN (1920-1978) Academy of Music in Jerusalem, with the New Jersey elsewhere, she teaches at the Université Musicale 6 Béla Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Book VI (BB105 (Sz 107), No. 148: Bulgarian Dance No. 1 1:59 Music Teachers Associations, and was on the faculties Internationale de Paris. Each year she gives a public (RCA Victor 12-03434-B (1E)) • Recorded in New York, 5th December 1947 of the Mannes and Queens Colleges, as well as the master-class at the Institut Hongrois in Paris, and has Juilliard School, in New York City. She continued her also appeared in recital at the Academy of Music in Gisele KUHN (1910-1996) very active career to the very end, always committed to Budapest (most recently in 2006 in celebration of her 7 Aram Khachaturian: Poem about Stalin (“Song of the Ashug”): Chant du Mirza (1937/8) 4:12 music. Her health failing, she died on Friday, 10th June, ninetieth birthday). She has recorded extensively for (Le Chant du Monde No. 5059 (PARTX 9289-1)) • Recorded in Paris, 12th July 1950 1983. Her solo repertoire included most of the SAGA, Palexa, and Hyperion. Among the works she important Russian composers, some of which she also recorded are the complete Préludes of Debussy, Ida KREHM (1912-1998) recorded for Westminster. From her 1954 sessions, we Chopin’s complete Nocturnes and Mendelssohn’s 8 Alexander Scriabin: Etude in B flat Major (“Etude in Ninths”), Op. 65, No. 1 3:27 hear a very sensitive performance of Rachmaninov’s complete Songs Without Words. Among her earliest ( (Paraclete Music Disc 30B) • Recorded in East Haven, Connecticut in 1942 Melodie in E minor, Op. 10, No. 4 (Track ). recordings made around 1947 were a series of sixteen- Livia Rév was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1916. inch radio transcription discs for the Standard Program Yvonne LORIOD (b.1924) In 1923 she began her musical education with Margit Library. From that set of recordings we hear her 9 Olivier Messiaen: Les Sons Impalpables du Rêve (Prélude No. 5) (1929) 3:41 Varro and Klara Mathe. It was evident from a very early virtuosic performance of Francis Poulenc’s Toccata ) (Pathé PDT132 (CPTX636-2)) • Recorded in Paris, 19th June 1946 age that she was exceptionally talented as she won the (Track ). Grand Prix des Enfants Prodiges when she was nine. In Phyllis SELLICK (b.1911) later years she studied with Leo Weiner and Arnold Marina and Victor Ledin 0 Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin: Toccata 3:51 (DECCA R.103 (CP.1065B (Special Recording for Rimington van Wyck)) • Recorded in London in 1940 8.111217 211 8.111217 111217 bk WomenPno 03 14/4/07 12:40 Page 10 music, as well as new compositions by Shostakovich Casella, and Germano Arnaldi at the Santa Cecilia Elly NEY (1882-1968) and her brother José. She recorded many works for two Accademia at Rome, graduating in 1939. She then ! Ludwig van Beethoven: Andante Favori in F Major (WoO 57) (1803) 7:52 pianos with José Iturbi, and also several, much praised attended the Manhattan School of Music in New York (HMV DB4676 (2RA.2490-3 and 2RA.2491-6)) • Recorded in Berlin, 16th February 1938 albums of solo works, including a complete recording studying with Harold Bauer and Carl Friedberg. of Granados’ Goyescas. She died in Beverly Hills, Franceschi made her Paris début in 1939, her Milan Halina CZERNY-STEFANSKA (1922-2001) California, on 21st April 1969 of a brain tumour. She is début in 1940, and first appeared with the San Francisco @ Fryderyk Chopin: Waltz No. 1 in E flat Major, Op. 18 4:23 heard in one of her more rare recordings from 1949 of Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Pierre (HMV C3968 (2EA14369-1)) • Recorded in London, 10th December 1949 Manuel Infante’s Guadalquivir (Track ^). Monteux in 1948. So impressed with her pianistic Helen Schnabel was born in New York on 22nd abilities was Monteux that he took her on as his Clara HASKIL (1895-1960) July 1911, or so most official biographies claim. An protégée and conducted her performances in Chicago # Joseph Haydn: Variations in F Minor (Hob.XVII:6) 6:04 interesting New York Times (28th March, 1923) review and New York.