Recordings – Page 10 – The Piano Files

Celebrating Eileen Joyce

by Mark Ainley / Recordings / Review / No Comments / March 19, 2018

A number of CD companies are doing a wonderful job producing box sets featuring a complete artist’s recordings, such as Sony’s exemplary Maryla Jonas set that was featured here recently. Eloquence have more than outdone

A Tribute to Dinu Lipatti

by Mark Ainley / Feature / Interview / Recordings / No Comments / March 19, 2018

Much of my focus in the field of historical recordings the last three decades has been with the legendary Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti, who has had a cult following since even before his tragically early

An Appreciation of Ilona Eibenschütz

by admin / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / March 2, 2018

Historical recordings provide an invaluable opportunity to hear the artistry of performers trained in the 19th century tradition of composers whose music we still revere today. While some composers actually recorded their own works themselves

A Chopin Celebration

by Mark Ainley / Recordings / 4 Comments / March 1, 2018

Chopin was born on this day in 1810 – or at least this day is what is generally referred to as his birthday: although February 22nd was apparently entered in the baptismal register, March 1st

Magical Maryla

by admin / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / February 20, 2018

The Polish pianist Maryla Jonas is one whose name has all but been forgotten except by the most ardent piano fans and record collectors. First pressings as well as early LP discs of her 78rpm

The Marvellous Marcelle Meyer

by admin / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / February 20, 2018

This is an edited version of an article previously published in the now defunct magazine Classical Recordings Quarterly. A famous 1921 portrait by Jacques-Émile Blanche entitled ‘Le groupe des Six’ depicts five of the six composers

Magnificent Münz

by Mark Ainley / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / May 26, 2015

It is a sad truth that there are many great pianists who never had the career that their artistry warranted. For some it was management, for others luck, and yet for others, there is the

The Firebrand

by Mark Ainley / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / August 19, 2014

The Israeli-American pianist Natan Brand was one of the most fiery of pianists, a towering talent with a mercurial temperament that fuelled his impassioned conceptions. When he died in 1990 at the age of 46,

Twilight of a God

by Mark Ainley / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / April 23, 2012

Alfred Cortot’s name is sometimes uttered with disdain for his technical ability at the keyboard. It is indeed a fact that some of Cortot’s performances have wrong notes, something that our sanitized ears today are

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

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