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Track(s) taken from APR7502

Viennese Dance No 2, on motifs by Eduard Gärtner

composer

Eileen Joyce (piano)
Recording details: February 1936
London, United Kingdom
Release date: September 2011
Total duration: 3 minutes 26 seconds
 

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Leslie Howard (piano)

Reviews

‘Listening to Joyce is strangely addictive. One cannot wait, as it were, to read the next chapter. She shares with Kreisler and Tauber the same unteachable ability to elevate the second-rate to the first-rate, and to illuminate familiar masterpieces with a convincing and unmistakable voice … this is such a cornucopia of good things it is hard to know where to start … full marks all round for an early Award contender’ (Gramophone)

‘The quality that comes across in these performances is the sheer joy of playing. Joyce possessed a formidable technique and an interpretative mind that blended stylish sensibility with passion … Joyce’s breadth as well as her impeccable touch and distinctive artistic personality are valuably recalled here’ (The Telegraph)» More

‘The Ballades are simply magnificent, up there with the best. Always warm and well-shaped, they are very complete in their understanding of where the music is going, always convincing in their rubato’ (MusicWeb International)
Although Ignacy Friedman studied composition and produced a mountain of now-forgotten music, no piano buff is unaware of his absolutely wonderful piano playing. Friedman, a pupil of Leschetitzky, left us some unique recordings. For his own use, and for his pianist friends, he produced a set of Six Viennese Dances between 1916 and 1920 ‘on motifs by Eduard Gärtner’, about which gentleman scrupulous research has revealed next to nothing! This second dance of the series is dedicated to Isidor Philipp.

from notes by Leslie Howard © 2004

Ignaz Friedman étudia la composition et écrivit une montagne de pièces aujourd’hui oubliées, mais aucun mordu de piano ne peut ignorer quel merveilleux interprète il fut: élève de Leschetitzky, il nous a laissé quelques enregistrements uniques. Pour son propre usage, et pour celui de ses amis pianistes, il créa un corpus de Six danses viennoises (entre 1916 et 1920) «sur des motifs d’Eduard Gärtner», monsieur sur qui de scrupuleuses recherches n’ont presque rien révélé! La danse proposée ici, la deuxième de la série, est dédiée à Isidor Philipp.

extrait des notes rédigées par Leslie Howard © 2004
Français: Hypérion

Ignacy Friedman hat zwar ein Kompositionsstudium absolviert und einen Berg inzwischen vergessener Musik hervorgebracht, aber alle Kenner der Klaviermusik wissen vor allem um sein absolut wunderbares Klavierspiel. Friedman, ein Schüler von Leschetitzky, hat uns mehrere einzigartige Schallplattenaufnahmen hinterlassen. Für den Eigengebrauch und für seine Freunde unter den Pianisten hat er zwischen 1916 und 1920 Sechs Wiener Tänze „nach Motiven von Eduard Gärtner“ geschaffen, einem Mann, über den selbst eingehende Recherchen so gut wie nichts zutage gefördert haben! Der vorliegende zweite Tanz der Sammlung ist Isidor Philipp gewidmet.

aus dem Begleittext von Leslie Howard © 2004
Deutsch: Anne Steeb/Bernd Müller

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