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CORTOT, Alfred: Encores - 78 rpm Recordings (1925-26)
This collection brings together Alfred Cortot's complete electrical recordings for the Victor Talking Machine Company. Of special interest to collectors are the March 1925 recordings of the second half of Chopin's G minor Ballade, which here receives its first CD release outside Japan, and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11, transferred for this Naxos release from a vinyl test pressing for the unissued twelveinch 78rpm. All these early electrical recordings are notable not only for the improved quality of sound, but for the way the microphone captured Cortot's huge palette of tonal colours, on a Steinway piano rather than his preferred Pleyel. As a critic wrote after Cortot's 5th January 1927 recital at New York's Aeolian Hall: 'He is one of those great musicians from whose readings of familiar works there is almost invariably something to learn and remember… it would be hard to surpass his sincerity, his feeling, his colouring, and declamation of the music. Nor are many as fortunate as he in striking the mean between what is nobly expressive and what is sentimental….'
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Franz Schubert
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- Litanei auf das Fest aller Seelen, D. 343 (arr. A. Cortot for piano) 00:03:28
Fryderyk Chopin
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- Impromptu No. 2 in F sharp major, Op. 36 00:04:39
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- Etude No. 13 in A flat major, Op. 25, No. 1, "Harp Study" 00:02:09
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2 00:03:04
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 (concluding section) 00:04:08
Johannes Brahms
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- 5 Lieder, Op. 49: No. 4. Wiegenlied (Lullaby) (arr. A. Cortot for piano) 00:02:34
Franz Liszt
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies, S244/R106: Rhapsody No. 11 in A minor 00:04:16
Carl Maria von Weber
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- Aufforderung zum Tanze (Invitation to the Dance), Op. 65, J. 260 00:06:35
George Frideric Handel
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- Keyboard Suite No. 5 in E major, HWV 430: IV. Air and Variations, "The Harmonius Blacksmith" 00:03:37
Isaac Albeniz
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- Chant d'Espagne, Op. 232: III. Sous le palmier 00:03:37
Carl Maria von Weber
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- Aufforderung zum Tanze (Invitation to the Dance), Op. 65, J. 260 00:06:31
Fryderyk Chopin
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 00:08:18
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57 00:04:22
Franz Liszt
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies, S244/R106: Rhapsody No. 2 in C sharp minor 00:09:26
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies, S244/R106: Rhapsody No. 11 in A minor 00:05:36
| Cortot, Alfred, piano |
- Verdi - Rigoletto: Paraphrase de concert , S434/R267 00:06:42
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Naxos has been restoring Cortot's acoustic and electric recordings with commendable assiduity. Here we have early electrics recorded between 1925 and 1926 for Victor in Camden, New Jersey and they make for memorable listening.
Each side has inimitable virtues. Schubert's Litany for example courses with manifold voicings, shadings and colours; the left hand is in constant painterly motion, and it brings richness and poetry to the playing. Chopin's A flat major Etude sports rubati that roll back and forth like waves, a perpetual play of time held in check and released. Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.11 is dispatched with leonine power, its drama matched by moments of playfulness and wit, all served up with Cortot's seemingly limitless battalions of colour. Cortot's Liszt is a vortex of drama and projection uncompromised by weakness or limitation, The Weber is an Invitation indeed - vivacious and full of verve. We can hear it in two takes made two months apart - both were issued on Victor 1201; there are also two performances of the Hungarian Rhapsody already noted; one from March 1925 and never issued on 78, the other from December 1926 and released on Victor 1277.
Mark Obert-Thorn's note on the subject clears up what will be for some a peculiarity. "Part Two" (only) of the G minor Ballade was released on English HMV DB853. Twenty-one months later Cortot recorded the Ballade again, which was then issued on Victor 6612 - it wasn't merely a case of "adding" Part One. Both performances it should be noted contain a veritable arsenal of dropped notes.
In short then Cortot's Victors have a secure repository here. Not all the alternative takes are included, collectors will notice, but the disc is packed to the rafters in any case. Including them would have necessitated a companion but very brief appendix disc and there would be little genuine call for that, beyond the needs of highly specialist collectors. Obert-Thorn's transfers are commendably vital.
--Review by Jonathan Woolf, Musicweb International, December 2007