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When Alfred Cortot died in 1962 at age 84, his […]
Jacques Thibaud, Alfred Cortot, and Pablo Casals were great musicians
This live 1951 Schumann Concerto does alarming disservice to Alfred Cortot’s reputation. He made three studio recordings of the work in his prime, most persuasively
Alfred Cortot’s Chopin abounds with ecstasy, risk, idiosyncratic rubato, soaring melodic projection, and boundless nuance. A brilliant but erratic technician, Cortot was infamous for wrong
Chopin dominates Volume 3 in APR’s slowly progressing survey of Alfred Cortot’s post-war HMV recordings. Although the pianist’s erratic technique had slipped by the time
These classic performances require no additional accolades from me. They were great; they remain great. Alfred Cortot recorded the Schumann concerto twice electrically, and this
Alfred Cortot founded the École Normale de Musique in 1919, where he taught master classes in piano interpretation until his death in 1962. Between 1954
Time has not eroded the idiomatic sparkle and improvisatory give-and-take that continue to draw me to these frequently reissued classics from the late 1920s. But
Charles Panzéra was the leading baritone exponent of French song between the wars, and this disc in Dutton’s “Singers to Remember” series helps explain why.
What more can anyone to add 75 years’ worth of commentary about these vital, communicative, timeless interpretations? Each trio member’s strong individual profile asserts itself,
