Artur Balsam plays Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, Strauss, Hindemith, Clementi, CPe Bach, Paganini, Hummel, Ravel, Debussy

Featuring

Szymon Goldberg
Artur Balsam
Joseph Fuchs
Clemens Dahinden
Nathan Milstein
Raya Garbousova

Walter Goehr
Louis Kaufman
Jacques Dumont
Maurice Crut
Léon Pascal
Robert Salles
Zino Francescatti
Victor Desarzens
Otto Ackermann
Erica Morini
Zara Nelsova
Yehudi Menuhin
Michael Rabin
Symphonie-Orchester Winterthur
Johannes Brahms
Ludwig van Beethoven
Gabriel Fauré
César Franck
Claude Debussy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ernest Chausson
Maurice Ravel
Richard Strauss
Paul Hindemith
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Niccolò Paganini
Muzio Clementi
Darius Milhaud
Alexander Glazunov
Henryk Wieniawski
Igor Stravinsky
Tommaso Antonio Vitali
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Antonín Dvořák
Pablo de Sarasate
Fritz Kreisler
Carl Engel
William Kroll

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Performer Biography

Artur Balsam served for five years as the pianist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Arturo Toscanini, a celebrated Italian conductor.

Performer Biography

Artur Balsam was also a dedicated teacher, holding positions at the Eastman School of Music, Boston University, and the Manhattan School of Music, and directing summer courses at Kneisel Hall.

Performer Biography

Artur Balsam recorded nearly 250 works, including all solo piano music by Mozart and Haydn, and complete violin and cello sonatas by Beethoven.

Performer Biography

Artur Balsam, the pianist on this album, was born in Warsaw in 1906 and studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin with Artur Schnabel.

Historical Context

Artur Balsam emigrated to the United States in 1933 after Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, settling in New York in 1940.

Performer Biography

Artur Balsam won the Mendelssohn Prize for chamber music in 1931 and toured the USA with the young Yehudi Menuhin, a renowned violinist, in 1932.

Performer Biography

Artur Balsam was a sought-after chamber music partner, collaborating with famous violinists like Nathan Milstein and David Oistrakh, and cellists like Pierre Fournier and Mstislav Rostropovich.