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Buy Now	Chopin - Interpretations by Emile Pandolfi (more) »rank: 208700 from: MagicMusic Productions, Inc. :Album Description:Emile Pandolfi on Chopin; 'Ever since Chopin's arrival on the music scene in Paris in 1831, his name has become indelibly tied to the subject of piano repertoire. His brief career of composing, teaching and playing was an interrupted success, notwithstanding his fragile health, until his death in 1849 at the tender age of 39. To a pianist, Chopin is a dream come true. From the most expressive song-like melodies to the most exciting virtuosic passages, the compositions offer challenges and opportunities that are unlike any others. Chopin's writing, while technically demanding, conforms so beautifully to the natural movement of the hand. ...	Buy Now	Classical Evolution: Chopin: Famous Piano Works, Vol. 1 (more) »rank: 166328 from: Delta :Album Description:Emile Pandolfi on Chopin; 'Ever since Chopin's arrival on the music scene in Paris in 1831, his name has become indelibly tied to the subject of piano repertoire. His brief career of composing, teaching and playing was an interrupted success, notwithstanding his fragile health, until his death in 1849 at the tender age of 39. To a pianist, Chopin is a dream come true. From the most expressive song-like melodies to the most exciting virtuosic passages, the compositions offer challenges and opportunities that are unlike any others. Chopin's writing, while technically demanding, conforms so beautifully to the natural movement of the hand. ...
Buy Now	Original Jacket Collection: Vladimir Horowitz (more) »rank: 64580 from: Sony :Album Description:Emile Pandolfi on Chopin; 'Ever since Chopin's arrival on the music scene in Paris in 1831, his name has become indelibly tied to the subject of piano repertoire. His brief career of composing, teaching and playing was an interrupted success, notwithstanding his fragile health, until his death in 1849 at the tender age of 39. To a pianist, Chopin is a dream come true. From the most expressive song-like melodies to the most exciting virtuosic passages, the compositions offer challenges and opportunities that are unlike any others. Chopin's writing, while technically demanding, conforms so beautifully to the natural movement of the hand. ...	Buy Now	Beethoven: Piano Variations; Bagatelles [Box Set] (more) »rank: 92890 from: Brilliant Classics :Album Description:Emile Pandolfi on Chopin; 'Ever since Chopin's arrival on the music scene in Paris in 1831, his name has become indelibly tied to the subject of piano repertoire. His brief career of composing, teaching and playing was an interrupted success, notwithstanding his fragile health, until his death in 1849 at the tender age of 39. To a pianist, Chopin is a dream come true. From the most expressive song-like melodies to the most exciting virtuosic passages, the compositions offer challenges and opportunities that are unlike any others. Chopin's writing, while technically demanding, conforms so beautifully to the natural movement of the hand. ...
Buy Now	Vladimir Horowitz: Favorite Encores (more) »rank: 223973 from: Sony :Album Description:Emile Pandolfi on Chopin; 'Ever since Chopin's arrival on the music scene in Paris in 1831, his name has become indelibly tied to the subject of piano repertoire. His brief career of composing, teaching and playing was an interrupted success, notwithstanding his fragile health, until his death in 1849 at the tender age of 39. To a pianist, Chopin is a dream come true. From the most expressive song-like melodies to the most exciting virtuosic passages, the compositions offer challenges and opportunities that are unlike any others. Chopin's writing, while technically demanding, conforms so beautifully to the natural movement of the hand. ...	Buy Now	Arthur Rubinstein plays Chopin [Box Set] (more) »rank: 63808 from: EMI Classics :Album Description:Emile Pandolfi on Chopin; 'Ever since Chopin's arrival on the music scene in Paris in 1831, his name has become indelibly tied to the subject of piano repertoire. His brief career of composing, teaching and playing was an interrupted success, notwithstanding his fragile health, until his death in 1849 at the tender age of 39. To a pianist, Chopin is a dream come true. From the most expressive song-like melodies to the most exciting virtuosic passages, the compositions offer challenges and opportunities that are unlike any others. Chopin's writing, while technically demanding, conforms so beautifully to the natural movement of the hand. ...
Buy Now	Earl Wild at 30: Live Radio Broadcasts from the 1940's (more) »rank: 222857 from: Ivory Classics :Album Description:Emile Pandolfi on Chopin; 'Ever since Chopin's arrival on the music scene in Paris in 1831, his name has become indelibly tied to the subject of piano repertoire. His brief career of composing, teaching and playing was an interrupted success, notwithstanding his fragile health, until his death in 1849 at the tender age of 39. To a pianist, Chopin is a dream come true. From the most expressive song-like melodies to the most exciting virtuosic passages, the compositions offer challenges and opportunities that are unlike any others. Chopin's writing, while technically demanding, conforms so beautifully to the natural movement of the hand. ...	Buy Now	Backhaus: The Complete British Acoustic Recordings, 1908-25 (more) »rank: 95966 from: Pearl : :Backhaus was among the giants of 20th-century keyboard artists, renowned for his solid--some would say stolid--Beethoven and Brahms interpretations. The younger Backhaus was a more overtly virtuosic pianist with a wide repertory. This invaluable Pearl set covers his British recordings, starting in 1908 when he was only 24, and it includes composers and works he abandoned in later years when he pared his programs down to essential masterworks. So we get his only recordings of Rachmaninoff, whom he admired as the greatest among living piano composers, along with Bach, Scarlatti, and others. Backhaus's dazzling virtuosity can be heard in his abridged Brahms Paganini ...
Buy Now	Josef Hofmann - Great Pianists of the 20th Century (more) »rank: 224641 from: Philips : :Before he became the brilliant and charismatic virtuoso to whom Rachmaninov dedicated his Third Piano Concerto, Joseph Hofmann was a child prodigy. He was also the first pianist ever to make a record: in 1888, at age 12, he sat on Thomas Edison's lap and played into a prototype of the cylinder machine. That was a year after his New York debut at the old Metropolitan Opera house had caused general amazement among the public and the critics, but had also brought the wrath of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children upon the heads of his promoters. A wealthy New ...	Buy Now	Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1 etc. (more) »rank: 215586 from: EMI (Angel) : :Before he became the brilliant and charismatic virtuoso to whom Rachmaninov dedicated his Third Piano Concerto, Joseph Hofmann was a child prodigy. He was also the first pianist ever to make a record: in 1888, at age 12, he sat on Thomas Edison's lap and played into a prototype of the cylinder machine. That was a year after his New York debut at the old Metropolitan Opera house had caused general amazement among the public and the critics, but had also brought the wrath of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children upon the heads of his promoters. A wealthy New ...