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Rudolf Firkusny - Rudolf Firkusny Edition [New CD] Ltd Ed, Boxed Set, Australia
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Custom Bundle
- No
- Duration
- Album
- Modified Item
- No
- Features
- Ltd Ed, Boxed Set, Australia - Import
- Title
- Rudolf Firkusny Edition
- Album Name
- Rudolf Firkusny Edition
- Type
- Album
- Brand
- Eloquence Australia
- UPC
- 0028948463930
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Product Identifiers
Record Label
Eloquence Australia, Eloa
UPC
0028948463930
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20071184349
Product Key Features
Format
CD
Release Year
2024
Genre
Classical Artists
Artist
Firkusny, Rudolf
Release Title
Rudolf Firkusny Edition
Dimensions
Item Height
1.49 in
Item Weight
0.77 lb
Item Length
5.32 in
Item Width
5.17 in
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia
Number of Discs
12
Notes
LIMITED EDITION. SINGLE PRESSING ONLY. From a landmark Janácek album to a previously unpublished Schubert/Mozart recording, this collection presents the Deutsche Grammophon, British and American Decca, and Westminster legacy of Rudolf Firkušný (1912-1994), acclaimed by Stereo Review as 'the outstanding champion of Czech piano music on the international circuit'. 30 years after his death (on 19 July 1994), there are still works in the piano repertoire that have become indelibly associated with the artistry of Rudolf Firkušný: most of all, the piano works of Leoš Janácek, whom Firkušný knew as a young student in Prague. The pianist went on to make his US debut in 1941, when he played not a repertoire warhorse but the neglected Piano Concerto by Dvorák, under Sir Thomas Beecham. Firkušný made six recordings of the Concerto across the course of a long career; the Westminster version newly remastered here was made in 1963 and conducted by Lázsló Somogyi, and has often since been placed at the head of the work's discography along with the version recorded Sviatoslav Richter and Carlos Kleiber. Firkušný's 1960 version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition also attracted favourable comparison with Richter for it's plain-spoken virtuosity. It seemed to listeners at the time that the pianist's patrician technique and finely-wrought musicality had been rounded out by a new passion to his playing in what became the middle of his career. Although record labels tended to pigeonhole Firkušný in Czech repertoire, his sympathies were wide, as the span of this set suggests. His 1973 recording of Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto on Decca (with the New Philharmonia under Uri Segal) has been forgotten, though reviewers at the time thought it was finer than the more familiar Capitol recording with William Steinberg. A 1974 album of sonatas further underlines his Beethovenian credentials, though he had already established them on Decca in a partnership with the violinist Erica Morini which yielded four albums. As well as four Beethoven sonatas, they made enduringly elegant recordings of sonatas by Mozart, Brahms and Franck. By ranging in this way across Firkušný's remarkably sensitive reflexes as a concerto, chamber and solo pianist, this Eloquence set demonstrates the truth of Tully Potter's verdict: 'Of all the notable 20th-century Czech pianists, Firkušný was surely the greatest'. Perhaps most valuable of all is the inclusion of previously unreleased recordings of Mozart's Dupont Variations and Schubert's final Piano Sonata in B flat D.960. These were made in January 1963 for the American branch of Decca, but then shelved for reasons unknown. They present Firkušný at the peak of his powers, his phrasing typically natural and unostentatious. An essay by Jed Distler surveys Firkušný's life and career in the context of the albums newly remastered within this Original Jackets collection.
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