Since you are interested in Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 - 3 / Polonaises (Cortot 78 rpm Recordings Vol. 4), 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: Etudes (Complete) (1933-1949) Alfred Cortot (Piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 14/Sep/2006 ] Volume 3 of Cortot 78RPM recordings. Cortot was a great musician whose interpretations were often on a spiritual level. He managed to convey a depth of meaning through his playing and became associated with the works of Schumann, Debussy and... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Waltzes Nos. 1-14 (rec 1933-1949) Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 13/Mar/2006 ] The son of a French father and Swiss mother, Alfred Cortot was born in Nyon, Switzerland in 1877. During his childhood the family moved to Paris and young Alfred joined the Paris Conservatoire at the age of nine, studying the piano first with Emile... |
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... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Nocturnes (Selection) Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] Among forms that Chopin made his own was the Nocturne, at one time synonymous with the Serenade, but with the Irish pianist John Field and Chopin, his successor, a lyrical piano piece offering, nominally at least, a poetic vision of the night. Field... |