2CDs
The pianistic discovery of the decade.
The complete Columbia recordings 1936-39
CHOPIN Rondo • Ballades 2 & 3 • Etudes Op.10/5-8 & 12
Scherzo 1 • Mazurka 13
LISZT Feux follets • Vallée d'Obermann • Petrarch Sonnets 47 & 123
GODOWSKY-STRAUSS Die Fledermaus • BRAHMS16 Waltes, Op.39
Rimsky-Korsakov • Scriabin • Schumann • Rachmaninov
On the evidence of these 26 titles, lovingly remastered in almost uniformly remarkable sound, here is one of the major pianists of the century... I would definitely put this important release into my "Top Fifty All-time Great Piano recordings" without a doubt. Classic CD (UK)