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Thanks for your question, and above all for appreciating this wonderful music-making. Like so many of Schubert's pieces, the names were supplied by the publishers long after his death. I have now added D.946 to identify them. It's a set that is generally simply called Three Piano Pieces - Drei Clavier-Stücke as first published in 1868 edited anonymously by Brahms. The original seems to be a 'draft' autograph rather than a fair copy, although they could well have ended up being (perhaps part of ) a set of Impromptus, like the D.899 and D.935.

I was too - on such recordings I can feel the presence of the experience. There were players in those days whose physical and personal presence was palpable - Firkusny, Cherkassky, Nikoleava and Vogel. The current era is equally phenomenal, but there was something quite distinctive about that previous culture, and the live experience.

The catalogue of Lully’s works (Lully-Werke-Verzeichnis) contains multiple errors. Oesterle probably just helped to spread the misattribution in his edition. By the way, it is also noteworthy that several elements of this piece (particularly the Courante) are also found in JS Bach’s BWV 935, composed in 1720.

it’s a document of a memory, and it’s special to have such a document. Mere memory is even more hazy than a cassette transfer.

an interesting perspective - she was quite particular about her legato, and it was much more from the fingers than the pedal.

Thank you for your comments. Edith Vogel's musicianship is certainly individual, and sometimes idiosyncratic, but she was highly sensitive to the musical material, and I'm not alone in considering the recording of Op119 that you mention - despite the audio inadequacies - to be exceptionally fine. On this channel there is a link to an article I wrote about her a couple of years ago, if you would really like to know more about her. The reason I have posted her recordings is because they are not available elsewhere, and there are unique insights within them. She is not 'easy listening' and I explain a little in my article about that characteristic. If you'd like to engage about these recordings I'd be grateful, but 'cack-handed' and 'elephantine' are not entirely helpful terms to begin to grasp what it is that you are disliking. Many thanks, Andrew

Outrageous comments by big bong about a musician of the highest integrity, Edith Vogel and a formidable pianist too in terms of accuracy and instrumental command. She belongs in the company of Schnabel, Fischer and other greats who were music’s humble servants upholding the very highest and most noble of standards.

@@robertbailey8784 In the company of Schnabel? Seriously??🤣🤣🤣

@@bigbong620 Are you a musician yourself big bong?

@@robertbailey8784 Yes.