Research Catalog

Title

Alfred Cortot, the master classes.

Author

Cortot, Alfred, 1877-1962.

Publication

New York : Sony Classical, [2005], ℗2005.

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Additional Authors

• Perahia, Murray.
• Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
• Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
• Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856.
• Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849.

Description

3 audio discs : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Alternative Title

Master classes

Subject

• Piano music > Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
• Piano > Instruction and study

Note

• Original recordings made by Pierre Thouzery.
• Compact discs.
• Introduction and commentary by Murray Perahia in English and French, and Cortot's commentary, transcribed and with English translation (52 p. : ports.) laid in container.

Event (note)

• Recorded live at the Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris, 1954-1960.

Language (note)

• Commentary by the performer in French.

Contents

Partita no. 1, BWV 825 / J.S. Bach -- Fantasy in C minor, K. 475 ; Piano sonata no. 11, K. 331 ; Piano sonata no. 8, K. 310 / Mozart -- Piano sonata no. 26, op. 81a "Les Adieux" ; Piano sonata no. 27, op. 90 ; Piano sonata no. 28, op. 101 ; Piano sonata no. 30, op. 109 ; Piano sonata no. 31, op. 110 / Beethoven -- Piano sonata no. 2 , op. 22 (second movement) ; Fantasy in C major, op. 17 (first movement) / Schumann -- Piano sonata no 2, op. 35 ; Piano sonata no. 3, op. 58 ; Ballade no. 1, op. 23 ; Ballade no. 3, op. 47 ; Ballade no. 4, op. 52 ; Scherzo no. 3, op. 39 ; Mazurka op. 24, no. 1, no. 2 and no. 4 ; Mazurka op. 30, no.1 and no. 1 ; Prelude no. 2, op. 28 ; Prelude, no. 4, op. 28 ; Prelude no. 5, op. 28 ; Prelude no. 8, op 28 ; Prelude no. 17, op. 28 "Raindrop" ; Prelude no. 20, op. 28 ; Nocturne in F minor, op. 55, no. 1 ; Waltz no. 1 in E-flat major, op. 18 "Grande valse brillante" / Chopin.

LCCN

696998969827

OCLC

• ocm62708805
• SCSB-13587836

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries