180g Vinyl - Available Once Again!
Vinyl lovers like those from Speakers Corner can lament about how difficult it can be to dig up audio treasures and enhance them to make them as fresh and new. A good mastertape and precise cutting is of prime importance, of course. But a collector's heart will also miss a beat when taking a look at the original cover. Record dealers know this only too well and demand a high price for rare original recordings, as though they were dealing in gold. The rarer the recording, the more expensive it comes. In order to close the gap between the demand for coveted LPs and the potential for speculation with such productions, Speakers corner are re-releasing a number of first-class recordings by Mercury and Decca. All the titles appeared in their catalogue but were sold out years ago.
It is an unwritten rule of concert life, signalized by the continuous applause of an enthusiastic audience, that no good soloist is allowed to leave the platform before he has given at least one encore. Whether the virtuoso pulls a contemplative, lyrical or thrilling piece out of his hat is entirely up to him or her to decide. But one thing is absolutely imperative: an encore must be short and popular.
Twelve such little gems, all of them different in their own way, have been chosen by Byron Janis for this coupling. They are all well-loved from the technically demanding Sixth Rhapsody and the frisky "Valse oubliée" by Liszt, to Schumanns seemingly weightless Romance in F sharp major and his energetic Novelette with its cascades of chords. Byron Janis displays his deft finger technique in Prokofievs furious "Toccata", while tender sentimentality pervades Mendelssohns "Lied ohne Worte". Pintos three sparkling "Scenes from Childhood" are played with humour and nicely round off this musical pot-pourri.
Features:
180g Virgin Vinyl
High Quality Pressing
Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering
Musicians:
Byron Janis, piano
Selections:
Side A:
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
1. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6
2. Valse Oubliee
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
3. Romance in F Sharp Major
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
4. The Miller's Dance, from The Three-Cornered Hat
Franz Liszt
5. Sonetto del Petrarco CIV
David Guion (1892-1981)
6. The Harmonica Player
Side B:
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
1. Toccata
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
2. Song Without Words (May Breezes)
Robert Schumann
3. Novellette in F Major
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
4. Etude in F Major
5. Waltz in A minor
Octavio Pinto (1890-1950)
6. Three Scenes from Childhood
Recording: June 1962 in Bolshoi Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russia
Vinyl lovers like those from Speakers Corner can lament about how difficult it can be to dig up audio treasures and enhance them to make them as fresh and new. A good mastertape and precise cutting is of prime importance, of course. But a collector's heart will also miss a beat when taking a look at the original cover. Record dealers know this only too well and demand a high price for rare original recordings, as though they were dealing in gold. The rarer the recording, the more expensive it comes. In order to close the gap between the demand for coveted LPs and the potential for speculation with such productions, Speakers corner are re-releasing a number of first-class recordings by Mercury and Decca. All the titles appeared in their catalogue but were sold out years ago.
It is an unwritten rule of concert life, signalized by the continuous applause of an enthusiastic audience, that no good soloist is allowed to leave the platform before he has given at least one encore. Whether the virtuoso pulls a contemplative, lyrical or thrilling piece out of his hat is entirely up to him or her to decide. But one thing is absolutely imperative: an encore must be short and popular.
Twelve such little gems, all of them different in their own way, have been chosen by Byron Janis for this coupling. They are all well-loved from the technically demanding Sixth Rhapsody and the frisky "Valse oubliée" by Liszt, to Schumanns seemingly weightless Romance in F sharp major and his energetic Novelette with its cascades of chords. Byron Janis displays his deft finger technique in Prokofievs furious "Toccata", while tender sentimentality pervades Mendelssohns "Lied ohne Worte". Pintos three sparkling "Scenes from Childhood" are played with humour and nicely round off this musical pot-pourri.
Features:
180g Virgin Vinyl
High Quality Pressing
Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering
Musicians:
Byron Janis, piano
Selections:
Side A:
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
1. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6
2. Valse Oubliee
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
3. Romance in F Sharp Major
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
4. The Miller's Dance, from The Three-Cornered Hat
Franz Liszt
5. Sonetto del Petrarco CIV
David Guion (1892-1981)
6. The Harmonica Player
Side B:
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
1. Toccata
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
2. Song Without Words (May Breezes)
Robert Schumann
3. Novellette in F Major
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
4. Etude in F Major
5. Waltz in A minor
Octavio Pinto (1890-1950)
6. Three Scenes from Childhood
Recording: June 1962 in Bolshoi Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russia
