Title from disc label. Dinu Lipatti, Josef Labor, Iso Ellinson, Moritz Roesenthal, Ivan Davis, Stanley Hummel, Leff Pouishnoff, Alfred Cortot, Ervin Nyiregyhazi, Abram Chasins, Vladimir Horowitz, Guiomar Novaes, piano ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Adrian Boult, conductor ; Bell Telephone Laboratory ; Little Orchestra Society ; Thomas Scherman, conductor. Disc 1, tracks 1-5 recorded around 1945-1946. Disc 1, track 3 recorded around 1921. Disc 1, tracks 7-8 recorded 1932 January 8. Disc 1, track 9 recorded 1939 June 30, Chicago. Disc 1, track 10 recorded around 1960. Disc 1, track 11 recorded around 1960, Albany, New York. Disc 1, tracks 12-15 recorded 1946 July 27, London. Disc 1, track 16 recorded 1927 December 6. Disc 1, track 17 recorded 1978 March 20, San Francisco. Disc 2, track 1 recorded 1931 November 12, London. Disc 2, tracks 2-6 recorded 1932 February 5-6. Disc 2, track 7 recorded 1959 May 29, New York City. Disc 2, track 8 recorded 1980 May 2, New York City. Disc 2, track 9 recorded around 1956, New York City. Disc 2, tracks 10-12 recorded 1950 January 9. Disc 2, track 13 recorded around 1961-1962, New York. Booklet with biographical and program notes in (31 pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Contents:
disc 1. Dinu Lipatti. Sonata in D minor, K. 9 (3:21) ; Sonata in G, K. 14 (2:50) ; Sonata in G minor, K. 450 (3:21) / Scarlatti -- Intermezzo in C, op. 119, no. 3 (1:38) ; Capriccio in D minor, op. 116, no. 7 (2:15) / Brahms -- Josef Labor. Sonata no 7 in D, op. 10, no. 3 / Beethoven (5:22) -- Iso Ellinson. Mazurka in G-sharp minor, op. 33, no. 1 (1:18) ; Etude in G-sharp minor, op. 25, no. 6 (2:08) / Chopin -- Moritz Rosenthal. Waltz in E minor, op. posthumous / Chopin (2:31) -- Ivan Davis. Grandes études de Paganini no. 3, La campanella / Liszt (5:02) -- Stanley Hummel. The lark / Glinka/Balakirev (4:51) -- Leff Pouishnoff. Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18 / Rachmaninoff (32:21) -- Alfred Cortot. Petrouchka. Danse russe / Stravinsky (2:34) -- Ervin Nyiregyhazi. Three pieces, op. 11. Mässig, no. 2 / Schönberg (9:40) -- disc 2. Abram Chasins. Variations sérieuses, op. 54 / Mendelssohn (10:50) -- Vladimir Horowitz. Concerto no. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 23 / Tchaikovsky (17:51) -- Sonata in D, op. 10, no. 3, third movement / Beethoven (1:47) -- Scherzo a capriccio in F-sharp minor / Mendelssohn (0:48) -- Parody of the promotional message for the RCA album Showcase in sound (0:54) -- Guiomar Novaes. Concerto no. 9 in E-flat, K. 271, Jeunehomme / Mozart (31:32) -- Excerpt from Novaes's final recording session for Vox Records (13:44)
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