[ Decca Original Masters / 4 CD ]
Release Date: Monday 24 March 2003
Gramophone Magazine Award Finalist 2003
'Neither de Falla nor Rawsthorne could have asked for finer advocacy of their music...Clifford Curzon was a real thoroughbred, no question' (Gramophone)
CD 1
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 In E flat major,
op.73 "Emperor"
London Philharmonic Orchestra/George Szell
Recorded in London, Sept. 1949
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, op.23
New Symphony Orchestra/George Szell
Recorded in London, Sept. 1950
CD 2
Schubert: Four Impromptus, D935
Piano Sonata in D major, D850
Recorded in London, Dec. 1952 & Vienna, Jan. 1964
CD 3
Franck: Variations symphoniques
Litolff: Scherzo (Concerto symphonique No.4, op.102)
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Adrian Boult
Recorded in London, Dec. 1958
De Falla: Noches en los jardines de España
New Symphony Orchestra/Enrique Jorda
Recorded in London, July 1951
Rawsthorne: Piano Concerto No.2
London Symphony Orchestra/Malcolm Sargent
Recorded in London, Oct. 1951
CD 4
Mozart: Piano Concertos No.23 in A major, K488 &
No.27 in B flat major, K595*
Wiener Philharmoniker/George Szell
Recorded in Vienna, Dec. 1964
First ever release*