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The Great Female Pianists Vol.5 - Masters of the Piano Roll - Chopin, Debussy, etc. - Olga Samarov
ID: DSPRCD016 (EAN: 5060104470111) | 1 CD | DDD
Released in: 2007
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Review: Olga Samarov & other rare recordings Olga Samaroff was a very fine teacher. She worked in a succession of well-known music schools in the U.S. and was married to Leopold Stokowski for ten years. Critics often wrote of her amazing power at the piano. Her roll of the Brahms Rhapsody in G minor, with its explosive contracts, could have been recorded recently rather than ninety years ago, such is the freshness of her playing. Faure’s Impromptu Op.31, is given a poised rendition here with beautiful phrasing and grand style. But it is the Chopin Sonata in B minor that really takes our attention - a timeless interpretation, a spacious opening movement, a fleeting scherzo, a thoughtful largo and a noble finale. The English pianist Katherine Bacon’s roll of the Ondine from Gaspard de la Nuit is remarkable. The piece holds no problems for her, either technically or musically. This disc features some further excellent performances of Debussy and Saint-Saëns by a selection of very accomplished female pianists, which concludes this series. Some of these rolls are nearly 100 years old and come from a collection owned by Denis Condon who is one of the worlds most respected authorities on the piano roll and has some 18,000 in his collection. He also can construct the machines that read the rolls. 13.00 eur
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