IDAGIO | Fanny Davies & Adela Verne - the complete recordings 5024709156481

Featuring

Fanny Davies
Ernest Ansermet
Adela Verne
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Robert Schumann
Frédéric Chopin

Ignacio Cervantes
Moritz Moszkowski

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Performer Biography

Adela Verne, another pianist featured on this album, was a child prodigy who traveled extensively, including crossing the Andes on a mule, and even took a flight from the USA to Canada when planes were still made of canvas and hickory.

Recording & Production

Fanny Davies' recording of Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze, possibly her finest, was never issued in the UK but was briefly available in the USA, which is unusual as she never performed there.

Performer Biography

Fanny Davies considered meeting Clara Schumann, the renowned pianist and composer, to be the "crowning event" of her student life, crediting Schumann with guiding and invigorating her studies.

Performer Biography

Fanny Davies had an extensive repertoire, including 32 concertos and at least 450 solo works by 1913, and was one of the first pianists to include keyboard works by William Byrd and other Tudor composers in her recitals.

Recording & Production

Fanny Davies made her first gramophone recordings for Columbia Graphophone Company between 1928 and 1930, when she was already in her late 60s, despite having made piano roll recordings around 1907.

Performer Biography

Fanny Davies, one of Clara Schumann's pupils, had a distinguished career as a performer and was once mistaken for Clara Schumann by Clara's elder daughter, Marie Schumann.

Performer Biography

Fanny Davies, a pianist on this album, began playing the piano at age three, picking up pieces by ear, and had her first public performance at Birmingham Town Hall at age seven.