Irene Scharrer: The complete electric & selected acoustic recordings
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Irene Scharrer: The complete electric & selected acoustic recordings
Irene Scharrer (piano)
[ APR / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Monday 1 October 2012
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IRENE SCHARRER, though perhaps the least remembered of the major Matthay pupils, was the earliest to record, beginning in 1909 at the age of 21.That in itself is a credit to her early fame, which she established through an extrovert, but always musical, virtuosity.
She excelled in such works as the Chopin Etudes, nine of which she recorded, and in other brilliant pieces such as those here by Scarlatti and Liszt, but the poise and refinement of her Chopin nocture or the slow movement of the Mozart sonata reveal another side to her playing that is sadly underrepresented on disc. Her final recording, of the Litolff Scherzo, was also her most famous; in its day it was a best seller and was responsible for putting that work on the musical map. This set reissues for the first time all Scharrer's electrical recordings and also an example of every work she recorded in the acoustic era (pre 1925) that was not later remade as an electrical recording. For completeness, a discography of all her other acoustic recordings is also included.
"Her playing is a revelation and shows her to be a far more charismatic player than her distant cousin Harriet Cohen...What charm and brio, what joie de vivre! If the fingers sometimes run away with themselves with an occasional loss of detail, who can possibly object in the face of such uninhibited, joyous bravura?...This is an invaluable release."
(Gramophone)
Tracks:
Bach, J S:
Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben': Jesu, bleibet meine Freude
Prelude & Fugue Book 1 No. 3 in C sharp minor, BWV848
Boyce:
Trio Sonata No. 12 in G major: Gavotte
Chopin:
Étude Op. 10 No. 5 in G flat major 'Black Key'
Waltz No. 14 in E minor, Op. post., KKIVa:15, B 56
Impromptu No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 29
Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu'
Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu'
Etude Op. 10 No. 11 in E flat major
Étude Op. 10 No. 12 in C minor 'Revolutionary'
Étude Op. 25 No. 1 in A flat major 'Aeolian Harp'
Étude Op. 25 No. 9 in G flat major 'Butterfly'
Étude Op. 25 No. 6 in G sharp minor
Étude Op. 25 No. 11 in A minor 'Winter Wind'
Étude Op. 25 No. 12 in C minor
Trois Nouvelles Études: Étude in F minor
Trois Nouvelles Études: Étude in D flat major
Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31
Nocturne No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1 abridged
Prelude Op. 28 No. 8 in F sharp minor
Étude Op. 25 No. 2 in F minor
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre': 3rd movement (Funeral March)
Waltz No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz'
Debussy:
Arabesque No. 2
Reflets dans l'eau (No. 1 from Images pour piano - Book 1)
Poissons d'or (No. 3 from Images pour piano - Book 2)
Goodhart:
Tipperary - Five Variations
Liszt:
Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 12 in C sharp minor
Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434 after Verdi's opera
Gnomenreigen, S145 No. 2
Fantasy on Hungarian Folk-tunes, S123 abridged
Litolff:
From Concerto symphonique, No. 4 Op. 102: Scherzo
Mendelssohn:
Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 4 in C major 'Spinning Song' or 'Bee's Wedding'
Andante and Rondo capriccioso in E major Op. 14
Mozart:
Piano Sonata No. 5 in G, K283
Paradies:
Toccata
Purcell:
Toccata Prelude
Saint-Saëns:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22: Allegro scherzando abridged
Scarlatti, D:
Keyboard Sonata K14 in G major
Keyboard Sonata K1 in D minor
Keyboard Sonata K11 in C minor
Keyboard Sonata K159 in C major 'La caccia'
Schumann:
Intermezzo from Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26
Scott, C:
Danse nègre, Op.58 No.5 (W89)
Sinding:
Frühlingsrauschen (Rustle of Spring), Op. 32 No 3
