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CLIFFORD CURZON
The Complete Decca Recordings
CD 1
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 “Emperor”
LPO / Szell (1949)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1
New SO / Szell (1950)
CD 2
Schubert: Four Impromptus, D935 (1952) Sonata, D850 (1964)
CD 3
Mozart: Piano Concertos 23, K488 & 27, K595
WP/Szell (1964)
CD 4
Franck: Variations symphoniques (1958)
Falla: Noches en los jardines de España (1951)
Rawsthorne: Piano Concerto No.2 (1951)
CD 5
Schubert, arr. Liszt: “Wanderer” Fantasy (1937)
Mozart: Piano Quartets 1, K478 & 2, K493 (1952)
CD 6
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.23, K488
National SO/Neel (1945)
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1
National SO/Jorda (1946)
CD 7
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1
WP/Solti (1958)
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 (1955)
CD 8
Grieg: Piano Concerto
LSO/Fjeldstad (1959)
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 (1957)
CD 9
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 4 & 5 “Emperor”
WP/Knappertsbusch (1959/1957)
CD 10
Schubert: Four Impromptus, D899 (1941)
Mozart: Piano Concertos 23, K488 & 24, K491
LSO/Krips (1953)
CD 11
Schumann: Fantasie, op.17
Kinderszenen (1954)
Schubert: Wanderer-Fantasie, D760 (1949)
CD 12
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1
Concertgebouw/Van Beinum (1953)
Grieg: Piano Concerto
LSO/Fistoulari (1951)
CD 13
Liszt: Piano Sonata
Liebestraum No.3
Valse oubliée No.1
Gnomenreigen
Berceuse, S174 (1963)
CD 14
Dvorák: Piano Quintet
Franck: Piano Quintet
(1962/1960)
CD 15
Mozart: Piano Concertos 23, K488 & 24, K491
LSO/Kertész (1967)
CD 16
Mozart: Piano Concertos 26, K537 “Coronation”
& 27, K595
LSO/Kertész (1967)
CD 17
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1
LSO/Szell (1962)
Liebeslieder-Walzer
Zum Schluss, op.65 no.15 (1952)
CD 18
Schubert: Piano Quintet, D667 “Trout” (1957)
Britten: Two pieces for two pianos, op.23
Britten (1944)
Pijper: Symphony No.3 (1953)
CD 19
Schubert: Impromptus, D899 nos.3 & 4 (1964)
& D935 no.2 • 6 Moments musicaux, D780 (1971)
Beethoven: “Eroica” Variations and fugue, op.35 (1971)
CD 20
Brahms: Piano Sonata No.3
Intermezzos, op.117 no.1 & op.119 no.3 (1962)
Schubert: Piano Sonata, D960 (1970)
CD 21
Mozart: Piano Concertos 20, K466 & 27, K595
ECO/Britten (1970)
CD 22 Unpublished recordings* and rarities
Beethoven: Alla ingharese quasi un capriccio, op.129 (1942)*
Medtner: Fairy Tale, op.26 no.3 (1942)*
Liszt: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (1942)
Mephisto Waltz No.1
Liebestraum No.3 (1947)
Brahms: Intermezzi, opp.119 no.3, 118 no.6 & 117 no.1*
Capriccio, op.76 no.2*
Rhapsody, op.79 no.2* (1943)
Chopin: Nocturne in C sharp minor (1949)
DVD
The BBC Recitals
Produced by Walter Todds
Schumann: Kinderszenen
Brahms: Capriccio, op.116 no. 1 (1959 [black & white])
Schubert: Moment musical, D780 no.3
Impromptu, D899 no.4
Piano Sonata No.21, D960 (1968 [colour])
CD 23
BBC Interviews
Desert Island Discs (1978)
Curzon remembers his teachers, including Artur Schnabel (1973)
Clifford Curzon, piano
It is 30 years since legendary British pianist Clifford Curzon died (1 September 1982). Over the course of his career, during a long and almost exclusive association with Decca, Clifford Curzon established a pre-eminence unrivalled by any other British pianist of his generation.
For the first time this collection brings together absolutely every recording he ever made for Decca which has survived [in the days of fragile 78rpm shellac discs one or two items were given to the artist as unique-copy test-pressings and these have not survived], including several which have never been published on CD ( or even LP) by Decca [Falla: Noches en los jardines de España (recorded in September 1945); Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No.1 and Liebestraum No.3 – recorded in September 1947, Liszt: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca recorded in1942].
Published for the first-time ever in any format are 8 pieces including a Medtner Fairy Tale, Chopin C sharp minor nocturne, Beethoven’s “Rage over a lost penny”, and 5 pieces by Brahms. These recordings survived as 78rpm test-pressings in Clifford Curzon’s private collection and have been made available for publication through his family.
Also herewith alongside 23 CDs is a famous DVD programme made by the BBC. It includes Curzon performing solo works by Schumann and Brahms [filmed in 1959, black & white] and Schubert – including a complete performance of the Piano Sonata in B flat, D960, filmed in 1968 [colour].
Decca Classics 23cds plus DVD 4784389
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