The Complete Columbia & Electrola Solo & Concerto Recordings (Recorded 1929-1951)

Featuring

Egon Petri
Leslie Hays Heward
Walter Goehr
Dimitri Mitropoulos
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

Frédéric Chopin
Franz Liszt
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Schubert
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Johannes Brahms
Ferruccio Busoni
César Franck

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Recording & Production

The recordings on this album were sourced from three different origins: transfers by Bryan Crimp, archival transfers by Seth Winner, and new transfers by Mark Obert-Thorn, who also remastered the entire collection.

Performer Biography

Egon Petri was a teacher who encouraged pupils to analyze their own difficulties rather than promoting exercises and scales, and he stressed the importance of structure and close listening to harmonies.

Recording & Production

This album compiles Egon Petri's complete commercial solo and concerto recordings for German Electrola and both UK and US Columbia labels, spanning from 1929 to 1951.

Interpretation

Egon Petri's interpretations were known for being "searching and all-embracingly comprehensive" and were never driven by attention-seeking bravura.

Performer Biography

Ferruccio Busoni, a close friend of Egon Petri's father, strongly influenced Petri's career by recommending he focus on the piano rather than the violin.

Performer Biography

As a child, Egon Petri received musical training in violin from his father, Henri Petri, a pupil of the famous violinist Joseph Joachim.

Performer Biography

Egon Petri, the pianist on this album, was born to professional Dutch musicians; his mother was a singer and his father, Henri Petri, was an established violinist and concertmaster.