2011 – Page 2 – The Piano Files

Rachmaninoff’s Choice

by Mark Ainley / Uncategorized / No Comments / March 19, 2011

One of the pianists whom I wanted to hear most after reading Harold C Schonberg’s tome ‘The Great Pianists’ was Josef Hofmann. Schonberg clearly idolized him and wrote about him in such detail that I

Dinu Lipatti: The Chopin Concerto Scandal

by Mark Ainley / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / March 19, 2011

In 1966, EMI issued a previously unknown recording of Chopin’s Piano Concerto #1 in E Minor featuring the pianist Dinu Lipatti. No orchestra or conductor was named. On the record jacket of the British release

La Dadame

by Mark Ainley / Uncategorized / No Comments / March 19, 2011

Marcelle Meyer met Debussy at the premiere performance of Erik Satie’s Parade, for which she was the pianist. To give you an idea of the production: the mise-en-scene was by Jean Cocteau, the sets were

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Rachmaninoff’s Choice

Dinu Lipatti: The Chopin Concerto Scandal

La Dadame