Thanks much for these fascinating ideas! Do you think it's possible that more of Horowitz's unreleased concerts might appear - beyond the 50-CD box of unreleased material from SONY? Also - if you visit Ann Schein's website you will find a complete discography. Not just the Kapp releases but things on other labels as well. I have treasured all of her recordings. Every one is top quality. I have waited - in hope - for CD release of those Kapp recordings for decades. She is still a highly valued faculty member at The Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University, where she has mentored many gifted students.
Thank you for writing. I'm well aware of Ann Schein's discography and long and distinguished career, and, in fact, she was a guest on my radio program Between the Keys back in November 2019, marking her 80th birthday. Here's a link to listen to that episode: www.wwfm.org/webcasts/2019-11-05/celebrating-ann-schein-on-between-the-keys-november-5th. As for the Horowitz material, I did mention in my podcast that I'd love to see all of the Horowitz Carnegie Hall material in the Yale Collection remastered and issued.
But wait, there's more! Boxed or otherwise, unless I'm unaware of them: Chasins, Keene (both together and separately), Rosen, A.Verne, Pembaur, Palmgren, Kienzl, Cadman, P. Schuyler.
I've been waiting since the advent of Classical CD's for the Nyiregyhazi '74 and '78 studio recordings to reappear, and have wondered why it's never happened. One pianophile I knew said you need a man in three-piece suit in an office suite convincing some exec that it will make money. Or today it could be taken on as a charity, as Dave has talked about. Yes, some of them have appeared, on Marston and VAI, and there was the Music and Arts box. Sonetto has done a fine job with what they have done, IMO. But getting it ALL together in a finely annotated and state-of-the-art remastering would be a dream come true. It would be like throwing a grenade into the lap of today's international piano scene, for those that never heard of him and are too young to remember his rehabilitation. I actually talked to the man on a pilgrimage to his San Francisco fleabag hotel in 1978. It didn't go well, but that's another story. Two other Hungarians : Edith Farnadi and Louis Kentner. If somebody could invest the time and money at Sony to bring back Maryla Jonas, certainly those two deserve complete dream boxes too. And look what they did for Oscar Levant! That book and CD set revealed a pianist occasionally on the Horowitz plateau, so much more than a flashy and appealingly eccentric Gershwin/Hollywood token. I did see Cherkassky on DG with Karajan in Liszt's Hungarian Fantasy, too. I heard him at UCLA, I think, in 1977, got his autograph on a program. I remember him snorting during the Bartok Sonata. A hearty second for the VH Yale material. I can imagine Glenn Gould covering his ears or holding his nose at Lipatti's or Harriet Cohen's recordings of the Bach D minor. Don't know where I'd place on the maven-geek-looney tune spectrum, but I'm definitely there. Have a great New Year too.
Sony/BMG actually did bring out a complete Maryla Jonas edition in 2017, for which I provided the booklet notes. I don't know if the physical box set is still in print, but you can easily purchase a download edition. Coincidentally, Scribendum just issued a big box set devoted to Edith Farnadi's commercial recordings, it's about 95-per-cent complete, with only a few things missing. Kentner's legacy, alas, is all over the place, mainly because he recorded for so many labels as both a soloist and a chamber musician. I agree that Sony/BMG did a splendid job with their Levant set, which was lovingly co-produced by Michael Feinstein. Feinstein also had a major hand in that huge Jose Iturbi complete RCA collection that came out a few years ago, which I reviewed for Classicstoday.com
Thanks for another fascinating episode. I would like to make a recommendation if you don’t mind. Going back in time, one of Josef Lhevinne’s outstanding students at Juilliard was a man named Stanley Hummel. He was quite an accomplished pianist but his performing career never took off in a big way. He settled in the Albany NY area and recorded on his own label in the 50s. They were engineered by Bela Bartok’s son Peter and all are loaded on YT. If you feel inclined give some a listen. He certainly had a virtuoso technique!
Good suggestions. I’ll add a few, that may have less novelty value, but ought to be very realistic: I would like to see Lilya Silverstein’s DG recordings in a box, perhaps also a project for Australian Eloquence, and a complete Alexis Weissenberg box from Warner. And Decca must surely be planning a complete Mitsuko Uchida edition - if not they should be.
Yes, a Zilberstein (that's the correct spelling) edition might be interesting. Theoretically a complete EMI/Warner Weissenberg would interest collectors, even if I find his EMI output maddeningly inconsistent. Also a complete Tamas Vasary on DG box, and a complete EMI/Warner/Cetera Maria Tipo box.....a complete EMI/Warner Gina Bachauer box....I could go on and on!
@@jdistler2 May I suggest an episode covering the two Piano Library box sets issued by Eloquence? I got them recently, and it's mostly a lot of names that I don't recognize.
@@EnriqueHernandez-zk7qc I'm already ahead of you! I do recommend these boxes in my next episode, which is a "Best of 2024" retrospective. My detailed reviews for both of these boxes should appear soon on Classicstoday.com. I will eventually cover them on The Piano Maven in detail, but I want to wait until my reviews are posted. For me, the DG box is more interesting, simply because of the bigger variety in repertoire, and also because more pianists are represented, including, as you said, several with whom many collectors may not be familiar. Still, it's wonderful that Eloquence brought them out.
@@jdistler2 Btw, when reading on some of the subjects of the episode, all of a sudden I found myself in the gossip division, totally unexpectedly so haha
I record the podcasts in my music studio, which isn't soundproofed, so you hear the wind against the windows sometimes. Can't be helped, sorry! If I could afford to rent a real studio, I would!
@@jdistler2 No problem at all, Jed. I just like to check my ears sometimes. Thanks so much for your ongoing work on this channel and of course, for Classics Today!
Thanks much for these fascinating ideas! Do you think it's possible that more of Horowitz's unreleased concerts might appear - beyond the 50-CD box of unreleased material from SONY?
Also - if you visit Ann Schein's website you will find a complete discography. Not just the Kapp releases but things on other labels as well. I have treasured all of her recordings. Every one is top quality. I have waited - in hope - for CD release of those Kapp recordings for decades.
She is still a highly valued faculty member at The Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University, where she has mentored many gifted students.
Thank you for writing. I'm well aware of Ann Schein's discography and long and distinguished career, and, in fact, she was a guest on my radio program Between the Keys back in November 2019, marking her 80th birthday. Here's a link to listen to that episode: www.wwfm.org/webcasts/2019-11-05/celebrating-ann-schein-on-between-the-keys-november-5th. As for the Horowitz material, I did mention in my podcast that I'd love to see all of the Horowitz Carnegie Hall material in the Yale Collection remastered and issued.
Great fun! Thank you for this.
But wait, there's more! Boxed or otherwise, unless I'm unaware of them: Chasins, Keene (both together and separately), Rosen, A.Verne, Pembaur, Palmgren, Kienzl, Cadman, P. Schuyler.
We've already had the Sony/BMG Complete Charles Rosen Columbia Album Collection.
I've been waiting since the advent of Classical CD's for the Nyiregyhazi '74 and '78 studio recordings to reappear, and have wondered why it's never happened. One pianophile I knew said you need a man in three-piece suit in an office suite convincing some exec that it will make money. Or today it could be taken on as a charity, as Dave has talked about. Yes, some of them have appeared, on Marston and VAI, and there was the Music and Arts box. Sonetto has done a fine job with what they have done, IMO. But getting it ALL together in a finely annotated and state-of-the-art remastering would be a dream come true. It would be like throwing a grenade into the lap of today's international piano scene, for those that never heard of him and are too young to remember his rehabilitation. I actually talked to the man on a pilgrimage to his San Francisco fleabag hotel in 1978. It didn't go well, but that's another story.
Two other Hungarians : Edith Farnadi and Louis Kentner. If somebody could invest the time and money at Sony to bring back Maryla Jonas, certainly those two deserve complete dream boxes too. And look what they did for Oscar Levant! That book and CD set revealed a pianist occasionally on the Horowitz plateau, so much more than a flashy and appealingly eccentric Gershwin/Hollywood token.
I did see Cherkassky on DG with Karajan in Liszt's Hungarian Fantasy, too. I heard him at UCLA, I think, in 1977, got his autograph on a program. I remember him snorting during the Bartok Sonata.
A hearty second for the VH Yale material.
I can imagine Glenn Gould covering his ears or holding his nose at Lipatti's or Harriet Cohen's recordings of the Bach D minor.
Don't know where I'd place on the maven-geek-looney tune spectrum, but I'm definitely there.
Have a great New Year too.
Sony/BMG actually did bring out a complete Maryla Jonas edition in 2017, for which I provided the booklet notes. I don't know if the physical box set is still in print, but you can easily purchase a download edition. Coincidentally, Scribendum just issued a big box set devoted to Edith Farnadi's commercial recordings, it's about 95-per-cent complete, with only a few things missing. Kentner's legacy, alas, is all over the place, mainly because he recorded for so many labels as both a soloist and a chamber musician. I agree that Sony/BMG did a splendid job with their Levant set, which was lovingly co-produced by Michael Feinstein. Feinstein also had a major hand in that huge Jose Iturbi complete RCA collection that came out a few years ago, which I reviewed for Classicstoday.com
I was unclear, I do have the Jonas set. Thanks for alerting me to the Iturbi! Was unaware, I just have APR and Pearl releases.
Ditto for Farnadi!
Thanks for another fascinating episode. I would like to make a recommendation if you don’t mind. Going back in time, one of Josef Lhevinne’s outstanding students at Juilliard was a man named Stanley Hummel. He was quite an accomplished pianist but his performing career never took off in a big way. He settled in the Albany NY area and recorded on his own label in the 50s. They were engineered by Bela Bartok’s son Peter and all are loaded on YT. If you feel inclined give some a listen. He certainly had a virtuoso technique!
I have a few of Stanley Hummel's recordings, and I like them a lot. They ought to be reissued!
Good suggestions. I’ll add a few, that may have less novelty value, but ought to be very realistic: I would like to see Lilya Silverstein’s DG recordings in a box, perhaps also a project for Australian Eloquence, and a complete Alexis Weissenberg box from Warner. And Decca must surely be planning a complete Mitsuko Uchida edition - if not they should be.
Yes, a Zilberstein (that's the correct spelling) edition might be interesting. Theoretically a complete EMI/Warner Weissenberg would interest collectors, even if I find his EMI output maddeningly inconsistent. Also a complete Tamas Vasary on DG box, and a complete EMI/Warner/Cetera Maria Tipo box.....a complete EMI/Warner Gina Bachauer box....I could go on and on!
W Maria Tipo and Gina Bachauer!!
@@jdistler2 May I suggest an episode covering the two Piano Library box sets issued by Eloquence? I got them recently, and it's mostly a lot of names that I don't recognize.
@@EnriqueHernandez-zk7qc I'm already ahead of you! I do recommend these boxes in my next episode, which is a "Best of 2024" retrospective. My detailed reviews for both of these boxes should appear soon on Classicstoday.com. I will eventually cover them on The Piano Maven in detail, but I want to wait until my reviews are posted. For me, the DG box is more interesting, simply because of the bigger variety in repertoire, and also because more pianists are represented, including, as you said, several with whom many collectors may not be familiar. Still, it's wonderful that Eloquence brought them out.
@ Glad to hear. I will be looking forward to it.
As far as I remember Dave was asking for a Schiff box which is actually now available.
Yes, he may have asked for a Schiff box on that old video, where he mainly mentioned orchestral recordings.
@@jdistler2 Btw, when reading on some of the subjects of the episode, all of a sudden I found myself in the gossip division, totally unexpectedly so haha
Is it me, or does this sound like it was recorded in a windstorm?
I record the podcasts in my music studio, which isn't soundproofed, so you hear the wind against the windows sometimes. Can't be helped, sorry! If I could afford to rent a real studio, I would!
@@jdistler2 No problem at all, Jed. I just like to check my ears sometimes. Thanks so much for your ongoing work on this channel and of course, for Classics Today!
@@zaoria123 Me, too. At 75, my ears don't work quite as well as they once did.