Great Pianists Of The Century - Box Set 5CDs

Label : Brilliant
Format : Flac track
Cover : Yes

Tracklist :

CD 1 :

Robert Schumann
1-22. Carnaval, Op. 9

Sergey Rachmaninov - piano

Frédéric Chopin
23. Berceuse in D flat major Op. 57
24. Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor Op. 39
25. Waltz in C sharp minor Op. 64 No. 2
26. Mazurka in A flat major Op. 59 No. 2

Artur Rubinstein - piano

27. Etude in G sharp minor Op. 25 No. 6 "Thirds"

Johann Strauss II
28. Blue Danube Waltz

Josef Lhevinne - piano

Franz Liszt
29. Funérailles

Frédéric Chopin
30. Etude in F major Op. 10 No. 8
31. Mazurka in F minor Op. 7 No. 3
32. Scherzo No. 4 in E major Op. 54

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
33. Flight of the Bumblebee

Vladimir Horowitz - piano

Recordings (1-22): 1929
Recordings (23-25): 1928
Recordings (26): 1938
Recordings (27-33): 1933

CD 2 :

Franz Liszt
1. Liebestraum
2. Un Sospiro

Frederic Lamond - piano

Frédéric Chopin
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 35

Alfred Cortot - piano

Wagner / Liszt
7. Tannhäuser Overture

Benno Moiseiwitsch - piano

                                                                     Felix Mendelssohn
                                                              8. Venetian Gondola Song
                                                                           9. Duetto

Ignaz Friedman - piano

Frédéric Chopin
10. Etude in G flat major Op. 10 No. 5
Etude in G flat major Op. 25 No. 9

Leopold Godowsky - piano

Alexander Scriabin
11. Poeme Op. 32 In F sharp major
12. Poeme Op. 32 In D major

Vladimir Sofronitsky - piano

13. Nocturne in D flat major Op. 27 No. 2

Solomon Cutner - piano

Recordings (1-2): 1927
Recordings (3-6): 1933
Recording (7): 1938
Recordings (8-9): 1930
Recording (10): 1928
Recordings (11-12): 1948
Recording (13) : 1942

CD 3 :

Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54

Dinu Lipatti - piano
Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in B flat major K570

Walter Gieseking - piano

Ludwig van Beethoven
7. Piano Sonata in A major Op. 101, 1-rst movement

Franz Schubert
8. Piano Sonata in B flat major D 960, 1-rst movement

Artur Schnabel - piano

Robert Schumann
9. Toccata in C major Op. 7

Emil Gilels - piano

Mily Balakirev
10. Islamey, Oriental Fantasy

Claudio Arrau - piano

Recordings (1-3): April 1948
Recording (4-6): September 1936
Recording (7): 1934
Recording (8):1939
Recording (9): 1938
Recording (10): 1928

CD 4 :

Sergey Rachmaninov
1. Prelude in D major Op. 23 No. 4
2. Prelude in G minor Op. 23 No. 5
3. Prelude in B minor Op. 32 No. 10
4. Prelude in G sharp minor Op. 32 No. 12

Frédéric Chopin
5. Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 31

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
The Seasons (Selection)
6. May, White Nights
7. June, Barcarolle
8. November, Troika
9. January, By the Fireplace

Sviatoslav Richter - piano

Claude Debussy
Images Book 1
10. Reflets dans l"eau
11. Hommage a Rameau
12. Mouvement
Images Book 2
13. Cloches a travers les feuilles
14. Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut
15. Poissons d"or

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - piano

Recordings: 1971 (5), 1983 (1-4, 6-9)
Recording (10-15): 1964

CD 5 :

Franz Liszt
1. Mephisto Waltz 1

Sigismund Thalberg
2. "Don Pasquale" Fantasy

Earl Wild - piano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3. Fantasy in C minor K396

Franz Liszt
4. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C sharp minor
5. Csardas obstiné

Alfred Brendel - piano

6. La Leggierezza

Sergey Prokofiev
7. Toccata Op. 11

Martha Argerich - piano

Sergey Rachmaninov
8. Etude-tableau in E flat minor Op. 39 No. 5

Mendelssohn / Rachmaninov
9. Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night"s Dream

Nikolai Lugansky - piano

Recordings (1-5): 1968,
Recordings (6-7): Busoni Competition 1957
Recording (8-9): 1992 / 1993