Byron Janis - Mercury Masters
9CD+BluRay Box Set
The legendary American pianist Byron Janis, who turns 95 in March 2023, was the first pupil of another iconic pianist – Vladimir Horowitz. Horowitz famously told Janis “I don’t want you to be a ‘second Horowitz’ I want you to be a ‘first Janis’.” Janis certainly established himself on the world stage when he made his Carnegie Hall debut recital in October 1948, garnering a rave review from the New York Times’s Olin Downes who praised him as a distinctive artist in his own right destined for a major career.
Contents:
CD1
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No.2. Preludes, Op.23 No.6 & Op.3 No.2
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra/Antal Doráti
CD2
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No.1
London Symphony Orchestra/Herbert Menges
CD3
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No.3
London Symphony Orchestra/Antal Doráti
CD4
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No.3
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No.1
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra/Kirill Kondrashin
CD5
ENCORES – works by Liszt, Schumann, De Falla, Prokofiev, Chopin, Mendelssohn etc.
CD6
LISZT Piano Concerto No.1
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra/Kirill Kondrashin
Piano Concerto No.2
Moscow Radio [Tchaikovsky] Symphony Orchestra/Gennady Rozhdestvensky
CD7
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto; Piano Sonata No.3 in F minor, Op.14; Arabeske in C, Op.18
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra/Stanisław Skrowaczewski
CD8
MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition
CD9
LIVE IN LENINGRAD – 1960 Soviet Union recital recording. Includes works by Mozart, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Copland and De Falla
BLU-RAY DISC
Byron Janis – The Mercury Recordings in 24bit 192kHz (CDs 1-8)
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Mercury 10 disc Set
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