Since you are interested in Chopin: Etudes (Complete) (1933-1949), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Ballades Nos. 1-4 / Nocturnes (Cortot, 78 rpm Recordings, Vol. 5) (1929-1951) Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] "A triumphant end for the Cortot-Chopin series then. Good restoration work allows us to hear these performances in all their disputatious but teeming glory." (MusicWeb May 2007) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Encores - 78 rpm Recordings (recorded 1925-26) Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 13/Sep/2007 ] 'He is one of those great musicians from whose readings of familiar works there is almost invariably something to learn and remember… it would be hard to surpass his sincerity, his feeling, his colouring, and declamation of the music. Nor are many as... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 - 3 / Polonaises (Cortot 78 rpm Recordings Vol. 4) Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] "A valuable repository of some of the most charismatic and resourceful Chopin playing on record" (MusicWeb May 2007) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Mazurkas, Vol. 1 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] Fryderyk Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, in 1810. His father, Nicolas Chopin, was French by birth, but had been taken to Poland in 1787, at the age of sixteen, working first as a clerk in a tobacco factory, before taking part in the... |