Brahms / Rehberg: Polydor Recordings - COMPACT DISCS

Brahms / Rehberg: Polydor Recordings - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Polydor Recordings Artist: Brahms Rehberg Label: Apr Recordings Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5024709173099 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2018 05 04 Number of Discs: 3 Additional Details: 3 PACK The Swiss pianist, editor and writer, Walter Rehberg (1900 1957) was a mainstay of the German Polydor label in the 1920s & 1930s, but his work has never before been transferred to modern recording formats, and as a result he has faded from view. He

Title: Polydor Recordings
Artist: Brahms / Rehberg
Label: Apr Recordings
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5024709173099
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018-05-04
Number of Discs: 3
Additional Details: 3 PACK

The Swiss pianist, editor and writer, Walter Rehberg (1900-1957) was a mainstay of the German Polydor label in the 1920s & 1930s, but his work has never before been transferred to modern recording formats, and as a result he has faded from view. He was entrusted with the first ever recordings of such masterworks as the Schubert and Schumann Fantasies, and these and his Liszt performances reveal a true Romantic virtuoso who was nevertheless equally at home in the Classicism of the Haydn sonata he recorded in early 1925 - another gramophone premiere. Gramophone wrote in 1928: "Rehberg has done well, his technique is equal to the formidable demands made on it, but his virtuosity never blinds him to the imaginative qualities of the music... I have nothing but admiration for a rendering that is both competent and poetical." Rehberg was also a champion of the Janko piano, an instrument that allowed the easier playing of larger intervals and complex chords. The instrument never caught on, but the pianist's own compositions for it (featured on the latter portion of this release) reveal the fascinating sonorities that could be created with it. The transfers and remastering featured on this album were expertly done by Ward Marston.

Tracks:
1.1 I. Allegretto Innocente
1.2 II. Presto
1.3 I. Allegro Con Fuoco Ma Non Troppo
1.4 II. Adagio
1.5 III. Presto
1.6 IV. Allegro
1.7 Menuetto
1.8 Impromptu in G-Flat Major, Op. 90, No. 3, D899
1.9 Impromptu No. 4 in A-Flat Major, D899
1.10 Moment Musical in F minor, D780, No. 3
1.11 Polonaise No. 7 in A-Flat Major, Op. 61, 'Polonaise-Fantaisie'
1.12 Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17
2.1 Mephisto Waltz No 1, S514
2.2 Funérailles, S173. No. 7
2.3 Consolation No. 3 in D-Flat Major, S172
2.4 Rapsodie Espagnole, S254
2.5 Eglogue No. 7, S160
2.6 Sonetto 104 Del Petrarca No. 5, S161
2.7 Les Jeux D'eaux À la Villa D'este, S163, No. 4
2.8 Ave Maria 'Die Glocken Von Rom' S182
2.9 Soirée de Vienne No. 6 in a Minor, S427
2.10 Valse de L'opéra 'Faust' S407
2.11 Rigoletto - Paraphrase de Concert, S434
3.1 Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65
3.2 Waltz No.1 - Waltz No. 2 - Waltz No. 4 - Waltz No. 5 - Waltz No. 6 - Waltz No. 11 - Waltz No. 14 - Waltz No. 15
3.3 Rhapsody in B minor No. 1, Op. 79
3.4 Rhapsody in G minor No. 2, Op. 79
3.5 Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Op. 65, No. 6
3.6 To Spring, Op. 43, No. 6
3.7 Spring Song, Op. 62, No. 6
3.8 Rustle of Spring, Op. 32, No. 3
3.9 Prelude in C-Sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2
3.10 Frühlingsstimmen, Walzer, Op. 410
3.11 Soirée de Vienne, Op. 56
3.12 The Beautiful Blue Danube
3.13 Tanzstudien in B minor, Op. 3
3.14 Tanzstudien in G Major, Op. 3
3.15 FÜNF Fantasien Über Ein Thema Von Verdi, Op. 2

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