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Alexander Brailowsky: The Berlin Recordings 1928-1934

Alexander Brailowsky: The Berlin Recordings 1928-1934

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Alexander Brailowsky
Almost from the time of his debut in Paris immediately following the First World War, the Russian pianist Alexander Brailowsky (1896-1976) became
part of that small and indomitable group of elite pianists whose number seldom exceeds a dozen. For some magic reason, and sometimes even contrary to the fluctuations of taste and style, their names possess the magnetism which enables these first-rate musicians to fill even the most capacious concert halls all over the world, and to reap their applause as if according to a longstanding and irrevocable agreement between them and their audience.
Brailowsky, who like so many of his pianist colleagues (Schnabel, Rubinstein, Borovsky and Horowitz) was of Jewish extraction, was born in Kiev,
the capital of the Ukraine, on 16 February 1896 to Peter and Elizabeth (Raptchinsky) Brailowsky. His father had a music shop, but also found time to
teach the piano, and when his son Alexander displayed an extraordinary talent for the instrument at an early age, it was his father who taught him the rudiments of music. “My father was a musical amateur of fine taste and cultivation who played the piano well,” Brailowsky once said. “I can remember,
when I was only five, how my father and I used to sit at the piano and play scales together, each of us trying to see which one would get to the top of the
keyboard first.”

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Frederic Chopin 
Piano Concerto No. 1 E minor, Op. 11
1.  Allegro Maestoso
2. Romance. Larghetto
3. Rondo. Vivace

Sonata No. 2 B flat minor, Op. 35
4. Grave – Doppio movimento
5. Scherzo
6. Marche funĂ©bre – Lento. Presto

7. Barcarolle F sharp minor, Op. 60
8. Ballade No. 1 G minor, Op. 23

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1. Mazurka B flat Major, Op. 7,1
2. Nocturne E flat major, Op. 9,2
3. Prélude B minor, Op. 28,6 & G Major, Op. 28,3
4. Prélude D flat major, Op. 28,15
5. Waltz A flat Major, Op. 34,10
6. Waltz C sharp minor, Op. 64,2
7. Waltz A flat Major, Op. 69,1
8. Waltz E minor, Op. posth.
9. Impromptu A flat Major, Op. 29
10. Fantaisie-Impromptu C sharp minor, Op. 66
Etudes:
11. E Major, Op. 10,3
12. C sharp minor, Op. 10,4
13. G flat Major, Op. 10,5
14. A flat Major, Op. 25,1
15. F minor, Op. 25,2
16. F Major, Op. 25,3
17. G flat Major, Op. 25,9
18. A minor, Op. 25,11
19. C minor, Op. 25,12

20. Polonaise A flat major, Op. 53

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Franz Listz
Piano Concerto No. I E flat Major
1. Allegro maestoso
2. Quasi adagio – Allegretto vivace – Allegretto animato
3. Allegro marziale e animato – Presto

4. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 C sharp minor

5. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 D flat Major

6. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 C sharp minor

7. Valse impromptu

8. Gnomenreigen (Etude de concert No. 2)

9. Liebestraum No. 3 A flat Major

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Richard Wagner/Liszt:
1. TannhÀuser Overture
2. Spinnerlied (from Fliegende HollÀnder)

Franz Schubert/Liszt:
3. MorgenstÀndchen

Schubert/Th. Leschetizky:
4. Moment Musicale Op.94, 3

Schubert/Karl Tausig:
5. Marche Militaire Op.51

Scarlatti/Tausig:
6. Pastorale-Capriccio

Felix Mendelssohn:
7. Spinnerlied C Major Op.67, 4
8. Scherzo Op.16, 2

Robert Schumann:
9. Traumeswirren Op. 12, 7
10. Intermezzo from Faschingsschwank Op. 26

Carl Maria von Weber:
11. Rondo – perpetuum mobile Op.24, 4

Claude Debussy:
12. Serenade For The Doll (from Children’s Corner)
13. Toccata (from Pour le Piano)

Alexander Scriabin:
14. Prelude C sharp minor Op.11, 10
15. Etude D sharp minor Op.8, 12

Manuel de Falla:
16. Danse Rituelle (from El amor brujo)

RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 2019

CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 336-339

EAN: 5709499336397

Brailowsky on record ©
At the end of the 1920’s and the beginning of the 30’s, the German gramophone company Polydor issued a number
of much sought-after Brailowsky recordings, and even today the technical quality of these recordings as regards
to resonance and tonality is astonishing. These old Berlin recordings, the matrices of which were unfortunately
destroyed during the 1940-45 bombardment, must surely be some of the most inspiring; here the commercial 78
rpm pressings are presented in brand new digital transfers preserving the art of the “Keyboard Giant” Alexander
Brailowsky, a Chopin player of rare distinction renowned for his prodigious technique and beautiful tone.

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