Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 22, Rondo, K. 382 - Franz Schubert: Impromptu, D. 935 No. 4
9/1/2016, 8 Tracks, 1:22:06
Featuring
Sir Adrian Boult
Annie Fischer
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Ervin Lukács
Philharmonia Orchestra
Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Franz Schubert
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Performer Biography
Annie Fischer's most significant legacy is a studio-made integral set of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, which she worked on for 15 years but did not allow to be released during her lifetime.
Performer Biography
Annie Fischer, a Hungarian classical pianist, studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Ernő Dohnányi.
Performer Biography
Annie Fischer's playing was praised for its intensity, effortless phrasing, technical power, and spiritual depth by contemporaries like Otto Klemperer and Svjatoslav Richter.
Performer Biography
Annie Fischer, who was Jewish, fled with her husband, Aladar Toth (an influential critic and musicologist), to Sweden in 1940 after Hungary joined the Axis powers during World War II.
Performer Biography
In 1933, Annie Fischer won the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Budapest.
Recording & Production
This album features recordings made in London in February and April 1959, and in Budapest in April 1959.
Performer Biography
Annie Fischer considered interpretations created without an audience to be artificially constricting, as no interpretation was ever truly finished.
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