ICON - Annie Fischer: The Complete London Studio Recordings
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This set of Annie Fischer’s complete EMI recordings represent her during a particular decade, when she had made her European reputation. These recordings helped spread that reputation and increased her prominence among pianists.
As studio recordings, they form an unusual part of Fischer’s legacy – during most of her time as a performer, she avoided recording studios as she did not believe in playing in a studio without the presence of an audience. She shared this view with her eminent colleague Sviatoslav Richter, who said of her, ‘Annie Fischer is a great artist, imbued with a spirit of greatness and genuine profundity.’ However, from 1955 to 1966, she made a series of recordings for EMI. It began with Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto, the only work she recorded in 1955, and concluded with two of the six Mozart Piano Concertos. They were all made at Abbey Road Studios in London, with the exception of Schumann’s Kinderszenen and Kreisleriana, recorded in Vienna.
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Bartók:
Piano Concerto No. 3, BB 127, Sz. 119
London Symphony Orchestra, Igor Markevitch
Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 'Pathetique'
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight'
Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat major, Op. 31 No. 3 'The Hunt'
Piano Sonata No. 24 in F sharp major, Op. 78
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein'
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Liszt:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124
Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
Mozart:
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K466
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan'
Philharmonia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch
Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K482
Philharmonia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K491
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz
Schubert:
Impromptu in A flat major, D935 No. 2
Impromptu in F minor, D935, No. 4
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960
Schumann:
Fantasie in C major, Op. 17
Carnaval, Op. 9
Kinderszenen, Op. 15
Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer