MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Geza Anda

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BARTOK / CHOPIN / W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Geza Anda
Geza Anda (piano/conductor) / RSO Berlin, Ferenc Frisay, Camerata Academica des Salzburger Mozarticum

[ BMG / Philips / Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 25 January 2000

In the mid-1950s, Anda gave masterclasses at the Salzburg Mozarteum, and in 1960 he took the position of director of the Lucerne masterclasses, succeeding Edwin Fischer. His students included Per Enflo, who later became renowned for his work in mathematical analysis.

As a performer, Anda was particularly noted for his interpretation of Schumann's and Brahms's piano music. The New Grove Dictionary cites his "charismatic readings of Bartók and Schumann".He was regarded as the principal Bartók interpreter of his generation, even if other pianists since his death have made more obviously exciting recordings of that composer's concertos. Although he played very little Mozart in his early career, he became the first pianist to record the full cycle of Mozart's piano concerti; he recorded them between 1961 and 1969, conducting the orchestra from the keyboard.

Tracks:

Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto No. 1 In A, Sz. 83
Piano Concerto No. 2 In G, Sz. 95
Piano Concerto No. 3 In E, Sz. 119

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21 In C, KV 467

Frédéric Chopin
13 Waltzes