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Noel Mewton wood Legendary Recordings (piano)
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Label: ABC Classics Medium: CD No. Discs: 3
Noel Mewton-Wood, Melbourne born, was a performer of amazing breadth and range, both in terms of his musicianship and repertoire as well as his pianistic capabilities. He committed suicide in London on 4 December 1953, a few days after his 31st birthday. His recordings are as rare as gold dust and have been sought after by collectors for decades.
This 3-CD anthology features Mewton-Wood as concerto soloist, solo recitalist and chamber musician. It includes both his first and last commercial recordings, a privately-made radio recording (Schumann and Liszt) making its first appearance in any recorded format, and the world-premiere recordings of any of Tippett\'s vocal works (Boyhood\'s End and The Heart\'s Assurance), recorded for Argo/Decca and here receiving their first issue on CD.
Championed by Sir Thomas Beecham, he quickly established a reputation and began working with the likes of Richard Tauber, Josef Hassid and Ida Haendel. Other musical partnerships included Benjamin Britten, Michael Tippett, Peter Pears, Max Rostal, Bernard Heinze, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Walter Goehr, Sir Henry Wood, George Szell and Norman Del Mar. He was also a reasonably prolific composer performing one of his own compositions, albeit anonymously, at his early audition for Sir Thomas Beecham.
Were he to have lived longer, he would have been assured a career of the status of such pianistic giants as Horowitz, Argerich or Haskil. His playing suffused vitality with warmth and ranged from almost imperceptibly delicate to massively thundering. His early death must be one of music\'s most tragic losses.
An Australian Heritage series title on the ABC Classics label.
Artists: Noel Mewton-Wood (piano), Ida Haendel (violin), Max Rostal (violin), Peter Pears (tenor).
Conductor: Walter Goehr.
Orchestras: Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra, Utrecht Symphony Orchestra, Winterthur Symphony Orchestra.
CD 1
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58
Utrecht Symphony Orchestra
Walter Goehr
Recorded 1952
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 8 in G, Op. 20 No. 3
Allegro assai
Tempo di menuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso
Allegro vivace
Ida Haendel (violin)
Recorded 18 February 1941
ISAAC ALBENIZ (1860-1909)
Malaguena, Op. 71 No. 6
Ida Haendel (violin)
Recorded 2 April 1941
FREDERIC CHOPIN (1810-1849)
Tarantelle in A-flat, Op. 43
Recorded 12 June 1941
CARL MARIA VON WEBER (1786-1826)
Sonata for Piano No. 1 in C, Op. 24
Rondo (Presto) \'Moto perpetuo\'
Recorded 18 August 1941
FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)
Annees de Pelerinages II \'Italie\'
Petrarch Sonnet 47
Petrarch Sonnet 104
Recorded c. 1953
CD 2
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G, Op. 44 (ed. Siloti)
Peter Rybar (solo violin)
Antonio Tusa, (solo cello)
Winterthur Symphony Orchestra
Walter Goehr
Recorded 1952
DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)
Concerto No. 1 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, Op. 25
Allegro moderato - Allegro vivace -
Allegretto - Allegro - Moderato
Lento - piu mosso - Largo
Moderato
Allegro brio - Presto - Allegretto poco moderato -
Allegro con brio - Presto
Harry Sevenstern (trumpet)
Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra
Walter Goehr
Recorded 1953
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)
Kinderszenen, Op. 15
Von fremden Landern und Menschen
Kuriose Geschichte
Hasche-Mann
Bittendes Kind
Gluckes genug
Wichtige Begebenheit
Traumerei
Am Kamin
Ritter vom Steckenpferd
Fast zu ernst
Furchtenmachen
Kind im Einschlummern
Der Dichter spricht
Recorded 1950
CD 3
FERRUCCIO BUSONI (1866-1924)
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in E minor, Op. 36a
Langsam
Presto
Andante, piuttosto grave - Alla marcia, vivace
Max Rostal (violin)
Recorded 1952
MICHAEL TIPPETT (1905-1998)
Boyhood\'s End
Peter Pears (tenor)
Recorded 1952
MICHAEL TIPPETT
The Heart\'s Assurance
Song
The Heart\'s Assurance
Compassion
The Dancer
Remember your lovers
Peter Pears (tenor)
Recorded 1952
