Historic Archive

Three great pianists of the last century in performances appearing on disc for the first time: Friedrich Gulda offering a young man’s views of all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas; Emil Gilels on aristocratic form in sonatas by Beethoven and Weber and Sviatoslav Richter on superb form in a challenging performance of Schubert’s C minor Piano Sonata.

Beethoven - Complete Piano Sonatas Friedrich Gulda (Winner)

Beethoven - Piano Son. No 21, ‘Waldstein’; Weber - Piano Son. No 2 Emil Gilels

Bartók. Prokofiev. Schubert. Szymanowski - Piano Works
Sviatoslav Richter

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