Gina Bachauer - First HMV Recordings 1949-51
A splendid memento of one of the last century’s grandest of pianists
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Composer or Director: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Liszt, Johann Sebastian Bach
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Archive Piano Recordings
Magazine Review Date: 8/2005
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 77
Mastering:
Mono
ADD
Catalogue Number: APR5643
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(19) Hungarian Rhapsodies, Movement: No. 12 in C sharp minor |
Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer Gina Bachauer, Piano |
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 26, 'Coronation' |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Alec Sherman, Conductor Gina Bachauer, Piano New London Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
Harmonies poétiques et réligieuses, Movement: No. 7, Funérailles |
Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer Gina Bachauer, Piano |
Rapsodie espagnole |
Franz Liszt, Composer
Alec Sherman, Conductor Franz Liszt, Composer Gina Bachauer, Piano New London Orchestra |
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Gina Bachauer, Piano Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer |
Author: Bryce Morrison
Her opening to Liszt’s Funérailles may be fast-flowing for adagio but the line and direction are inexorable, and the final pages of the Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 have pulverising strength and tonal opulence. In Mozart’s Coronation Concerto she and her husband Alec Sherman are content to plough a straight but musicianly furrow. Less stylishly committed than such eminent Mozartians as, say, Brendel or Perahia, their performance is nonethless exceptionally fluent and satisfying. Finally, there’s Busoni’s rarely heard arrangement of Liszt’s Rapsodie espagnole complete with braying orchestration and much added, brilliantly pianistic tracery. Bachauer is once more in her element and it would be hard to imagine this romantic curio given with greater brio and facility.
Here then is evidence that for Gina Bachauer music was ‘like life itself. It illuminates every day from its opening.’ The recordings capture much of this artist’s immense dynamic range and Bryan Crimp’s accompanying essay lovingly charts a truly charismatic career.
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