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Moriz Rosenthal Complete Recordings

The modest entire catalogue of an outstanding Polish pianist

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Fryderyk Chopin, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Anatole Konstantinovich Liadov (Lyadov), Isaac Albéniz, Moritz Rosenthal, Claude Debussy, George Frideric Handel

Genre:

Instrumental

Label: Appian Publications & Recordings

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 366

Mastering:

Stereo
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Catalogue Number: APR7503

Moriz Rosenthal Complete Recordings

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Sonata for Piano No. 3 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Berceuse Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Tarantelle Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Iberia, Movement: Triana Isaac Albéniz, Composer
Isaac Albéniz, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(27) Etudes, Movement: A minor, Op. 10/2 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(27) Etudes, Movement: G flat, 'Black Keys', Op. 10/5 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(27) Etudes, Movement: F minor, Op. 25/2 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 16 in A flat, Op. 24/3 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 17 in B flat minor, Op. 24/4 (1834-35) Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 23 in D, Op. 33/2 (1837-38) Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 25 in B minor, Op. 33/4 (1837-38) Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 31 in A flat, Op. 50/2 (1842) Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 39 in B, Op. 63/1 (1846) Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 41 in C sharp minor, Op. 63/3 (1846) Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 42 in G, Op. 67/1 (1835) Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Nocturnes, Movement: No. 2 in E flat, Op. 9/2 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Nocturnes, Movement: No. 8 in D flat, Op. 27/2 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 1 in C Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 3 in G Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 6 in B minor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 7 in A Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 11 in B Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 13 in F sharp Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 19 in E flat Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 20 in C minor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 23 in F Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Waltzes, Movement: No. 5 in A flat, Op. 42 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Waltzes, Movement: No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64/2 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Waltzes, Movement: No. 14 in E minor, Op. posth. Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(6) Chants polonais (Chopin), Movement: Mädchens Wunsch Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(6) Chants polonais (Chopin), Movement: Meine Freuden (Mes Joies) Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(6) Images, Movement: Reflets dans l'eau Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(8) Suites for Keyboard, Set I, Movement: Suite No. 5 in E, HWV430 George Frideric Handel, Composer
George Frideric Handel, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(A) Musical snuffbox Anatole Konstantinovich Liadov (Lyadov), Composer
Anatole Konstantinovich Liadov (Lyadov), Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(4) Preludes, Movement: B flat Anatole Konstantinovich Liadov (Lyadov), Composer
Anatole Konstantinovich Liadov (Lyadov), Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(19) Hungarian Rhapsodies, Movement: No. 1 in C sharp minor Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(3) Liebesträume, Movement: No. 3 in A flat, O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Carnaval de Vienne Moritz Rosenthal, Composer
Moritz Rosenthal, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Fantasia on themes by Johann Strauss (II) Moritz Rosenthal, Composer
Moritz Rosenthal, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
New Carneval de Vienne Moritz Rosenthal, Composer
Moritz Rosenthal, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
(6) Moments musicaux, Movement: No. 3 in F minor Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
Soirées de Vienne: 9 Valses caprices d'après Schubert, Movement: No. 6 in A minor (first edition) Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer
Moriz Rosenthal, Piano
There are 97 titles on these five CDs lasting just over six hours, a timing that includes two live broadcasts from 1935 (BBC) and 1937 (NBC). Of these 97 titles, Rosenthal recorded two or more versions of 18 of them – hardly surprising since, between his first recordings (March or April 1928) and last (March 1942), Rosenthal recorded for six different labels and seems to have been keen that each one should have a version of his favoured party pieces. Take Chopin’s Mazurka in G major, Op 67 No 1. This he first recorded in 1928 for Argentine Odeon (a disc which only came to light in 2004 when it was bought on eBay for $54), then for Edison the following year (unpublished), for Parlophone in 1931, HMV in 1935 and HMV again in 1937 (unpublished). When APR says ‘The Complete Recordings’, it means it. Every extant take is included. Pianophiles will indulge themselves comparing the nuances, phrasing and sometimes finger slips in the four versions of Chopin’s Waltz in C sharp minor, Op 64 No 2, a work which Rosenthal had an inimitably seductive manner of playing, or the five versions of the ‘Black Keys’ Etude, each one of which Rosenthal ends with an uncharacteristically inelegant glissando.

Non-specialists to whom such variations of detail are of no interest might be deterred from investigating. I would urge them to think again because they will be missing out on hearing one of the indisputably great pianists in history, albeit captured when he was judged to be past his prime (he was 65 when he made his first disc recording) – though few living pianists at the height of their powers can equal the sexagenarian Rosenthal in his own dizzying Fantasy on Themes from Johann Strauss (the best of the two versions is from 1928 and in amazingly good sound) or, even better, Carnaval de Vienne (‘Humoresque on Themes of Johann Strauss’) recorded in 1930.

As one of the leading lights of the so-called Golden Age, Rosenthal, a friend of Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and particularly Anton Rubinstein, was of the era when the personality of the performer was paramount. He studied with the Chopin pupil Karol Mikuli, Joseph Dachs (a pupil of Czerny) and finally Liszt. In his heyday no one matched him for speed and power. These are still evident in many of the performances here (listen to the extraordinary 1931 recording of Chopin’s C major Etude, Op 10 No 1, played with hardly any pedal) but it is Rosenthal’s old-world charm, beguiling sound and almost conversational phrasing that make him unique and unforgettable. Among the best are his 1935 recording of Chopin’s Nocturne in E flat, Op 9 No 2, Schubert’s Moment musical No 3 (1937) and the Largo from Chopin’s Sonata No 3 from 1939. The finale of the latter somewhat taxes the 77-year-old, as do the final pages of the same composer’s E minor Concerto recorded in 1930 with the first movement’s opening tutti truncated (as was then customary) and the orchestral introduction to the ‘Romanza’ completely cut.

With Ward Marston’s superb restoration and remastering, APR’s exemplary annotation and a first-rate booklet from Jonathan Summers, this is, quite simply, pianophile heaven.

Moriz Rosenthal Complete Recordings

Moriz Rosenthal Complete Recordings

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1

Sonata for Piano No. 3

Berceuse

Tarantelle

Iberia, Movement: Triana

(27) Etudes, Movement: A minor, Op. 10/2

(27) Etudes, Movement: G flat, 'Black Keys', Op. 10/5

(27) Etudes, Movement: F minor, Op. 25/2

Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 16 in A flat, Op. 24/3

Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 17 in B flat minor, Op. 24/4 (1834-35)

Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 23 in D, Op. 33/2 (1837-38)

Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 25 in B minor, Op. 33/4 (1837-38)

Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 31 in A flat, Op. 50/2 (1842)

Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 39 in B, Op. 63/1 (1846)

Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 41 in C sharp minor, Op. 63/3 (1846)

Mazurkas (Complete), Movement: No. 42 in G, Op. 67/1 (1835)

Nocturnes, Movement: No. 2 in E flat, Op. 9/2

Nocturnes, Movement: No. 8 in D flat, Op. 27/2

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 1 in C

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 3 in G

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 6 in B minor

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 7 in A

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 11 in B

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 13 in F sharp

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 19 in E flat

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 20 in C minor

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 23 in F

Waltzes, Movement: No. 5 in A flat, Op. 42

Waltzes, Movement: No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64/2

Waltzes, Movement: No. 14 in E minor, Op. posth.

(6) Chants polonais (Chopin), Movement: Mädchens Wunsch

(6) Chants polonais (Chopin), Movement: Meine Freuden (Mes Joies)

(6) Images, Movement: Reflets dans l'eau

(8) Suites for Keyboard, Set I, Movement: Suite No. 5 in E, HWV430

(A) Musical snuffbox

(4) Preludes, Movement: B flat

(19) Hungarian Rhapsodies, Movement: No. 1 in C sharp minor

(3) Liebesträume, Movement: No. 3 in A flat, O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst

Carnaval de Vienne

Fantasia on themes by Johann Strauss (II)

New Carneval de Vienne

(6) Moments musicaux, Movement: No. 3 in F minor

Soirées de Vienne: 9 Valses caprices d'après Schubert, Movement: No. 6 in A minor (first edition)

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