Great Pianists

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Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Géza Anda
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Géza Anda cover
Compilation album by Géza Anda
Released July 20, 1999
Recorded at Berlin and Salzburg
Genre Classical
Length 200 Cds
Label Polygram
Producer Tom Deacon

Great Pianists of the 20th Century was a 200 CD box set released by Phillips in 1999. The box set was comprised of 100 volumes each with 2 cds, that featured 74 different classical pianists. Two volume contained a pair of pianists. The pianists Martha Argerich, Jorge Bolet, Shura Cherkassky, Alfred Cortot, Edwin Fischer, Walter Gieseking, Friedrich Gulda, Clara Haskil, Byron Janis, Julius Katchen, Stephen Kovacevich, Alicia de Larrocha, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, John Ogdon, Maurizio Pollini, and Rosalyn Tureck all were pianists that had two volumes dedicated to them. Claudio Arrau, Alfred Brendel, Emil Gilels, Vladimir Horowitz, Wilhelm Kempff, Artur Rubinstein, and Sviatoslav Richter each had three total volumes dedicated to them. The set as a whole contains a variety of composers ranging from Bach to Mozart.


Contents

[edit] Featured Performers

1. Geza Anda
2. Martha Argerich
3. Martha Argerich II
4. Claudio Arrau
5. Claudio Arrau II
6. Claudio Arrau III
7. Vladimir Ashkenazy
8. Wilhelm Backhaus
9. Daniel Barenboim
10. Jorge Bolet
11. Jorge Bolet II
12. Alfred Brendel
13. Alfred Brendel II
14. Alfred Brendel III
15. Lyubov Bruk & Mark Taimanov
16. Robert Casadesus
17. Shura Cherkassky
18. Shura Cherkassky II
19. Van Cliburn
20. Alfred Cortot
21. Alfred Cortot II
22. Clifford Curzon
23. Gyorgy Cziffra
24. Christoph Eschenbach
25. Edwin Fischer
26. Edwin Fischer II
27. Leon Fleisher
28. Samson Francois
29. Nelson Freire
30. Ignaz Friedman
31. Andrei Gavrilov
32. Walter Gieseking
33. Walter Gieseking II
34. Emil Gilels
35. Emil Gilels II
36. Emil Gilels III
37. Grigory Ginsburg
38. Leopold Godowsky
39. Glenn Gould
40. Friedrich Gulda
41. Friedrich Gulda II
42. Ingrid Haebler
43. Clara Haskil
44. Clara Haskil II
45. Myra Hess
46. Josef Hofmann
47. Vladimir Horowitz
48. Vladimir Horowitz II
49. Vladimir Horowitz III
50. Byron Janis
51. Byron Janis II
52. William Kapell
53. Julius Katchen
54. Julius Katchen II
55. Wilhelm Kempff
56. Wilhelm Kempff II
57. Wilhelm Kempff III
58. Evgeny Kissin
59. Zoltan Kocsis
60. Stephen Kovacevich
61. Stephen Kovacevich II
62. Alicia de Larrocha
63. Alicia de Larrocha II
64. Josef & Rosina Lhévinne
65. Dinu Lipatti
66. Radu Lupu
67. Nikita Magaloff
68. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
69. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli II
70. Benno Moiseiwitsch
71. Ivan Moravec
72. John Ogdon
73. John Ogdon II
74. Ignacy Jan Paderewski
75. Murray Perahia
76. Maria Joao Pires
77. Mikhail Pletnev
78. Maurizio Pollini
79. Maurizio Pollini II
80. Andre Previn
81. Sergei Rachmaninoff
82. Sviatoslav Richter
83. Sviatoslav Richter II
84. Sviatoslav Richter III
85. Artur Rubinstein
86. Artur Rubinstein II
87. Artur Rubinstein III
88. Andras Schiff
89. Artur Schnabel
90. Rudolf Serkin
91. Vladimir Sofronitsky
92. Solomon
93. Rosalyn Tureck
94. Rosalyn Tureck II
95. Mitsuko Uchida
96. Andre Watts
97. Alexis Weissenberg
98. Earl Wild
99. Maria Yudina
100. Krystian Zimmerman

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc 1

  1. "Allegro moderato" – 9:09
  2. "Andante" – 8:36
  3. "Allegro molto" – 7:13
  4. "Allegro" – 9:45
  5. "Adagio - Più adagio - Presto" – 12:14
  6. "Allegro molto" – 6:12
  7. "Allegretto" – 7:08
  8. "Adagio religioso" – 10:18
  9. "Allegro vivace" – 6:46
  10. "Allegro" – 13:48
  11. "Andante" – 7:10
  12. "Allegro vivace assai" – 6:22


[edit] Disc 2

  1. "Waltz in E flat, Op. 18 'Grande Valse brillante" – 5:58
  2. "Waltz in A flat, Op. 34 No. 1 'Valse brillante'" - 6:12
  3. "Waltz in A minor, Op. 34 No. 2" - 5:45
  4. "Waltz in F, Op. 34 No. 3" - 2:45
  5. "Waltz in A flat, Op. 42 'Grande Valse'" - 4:26
  6. "Waltz in D flat, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute'" - 2:05
  7. "Waltz in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2" - 3:45
  8. "Waltz in A flat, Op. 64 No. 3" - 3:31
  9. "Waltz in A flat, Op. 69 No. 1 'Farewell'" - 3:41
  10. "Waltz in B minor, Op. 69 No. 2" - 3:45
  11. "Waltz in G flat, Op. 70 No. 1" - 2:20
  12. "Waltz in F minor/A flat, Op. 70 No. 2" - 1:45
  13. "Waltz in D flat, Op. 70 No. 3" - 2:35
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