The legendary Cuban virtuoso Jorge Bolet’s 1952-1953 inscriptions restored, and they reveal a polished artist of colossal technique and intelligent refinement.
Jorge Bolet: His Earliest Recordings – APR (2 CDs)
Tag Archives: Franz Liszt
Eileen Joyce, piano: The Complete Parlophone and Columbia Solo Recordings – APR (5 CDs)
A superlative assemblage of Eileen Joyce shellacs, which taken as a whole reveal a potent virtuoso of the first order, to whom poetry and fire came naturally.
Gyorgy Cziffra plays LISZT = Both Piano Concertos, Totentanz, Fantasy – IDIS
Appropriate for the Liszt bi-centenary, virtuoso Gyorgy Cziffra returns in the main staples for piano and orchestra, fiery and poetic.
LISZT: Les Preludes; Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major; Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major; Hungaria – Andor Foldes, piano/Berlin Philharmonic/Leopold Ludwig (Les Preludes and concertos)/Bamberg Philharmonic/Ferdinand Leitner (Hungaria) – Guild
LISZT: Les Preludes; Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major; Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major; Hungaria–Symphonic Poem – Andor Foldes, piano/Berlin Philharmonic/Leopold Ludwig (Les Preludes and concertos)/Bamberg Philharmonic/Ferdinand Leitner (Hungaria)
Guild GHCD 2381, 66:20 [Distr. By Albany] ****:
The current Liszt bicentennial spurs the reissue of some fascinating documents, and the two concertos as performed by Hungarian virtuoso Andor Foldes (1913-1992) with Leopold Ludwig from the DGG ar…