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Happy Record Store Day

by Mark Ainley / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / April 21, 2018

Today is Record Store Day, which reminds me of the great joy that I used to have going around record stores back when I first learned of historical piano recordings. I had a list of

Dinu Lipatti: The EMI Studio Recordings

by Mark Ainley / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / April 1, 2018

This audio presentation is an exploration of the legendary EMI recordings of the great Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950). Drawing upon my research over a period of three decades that includes documents from EMI’s own

Dinu Lipatti: Prince of Pianists

by Mark Ainley / Feature / Recordings / 5 Comments / March 20, 2018

This is a revised form of an article that was published in the Summer 1999 edition of International Piano Quarterly. It has been updated with information that has since come to light. Dinu Lipatti is one

A Tribute to Dinu Lipatti

by Mark Ainley / Feature / Interview / Recordings / No Comments / March 19, 2018

Much of my focus in the field of historical recordings the last three decades has been with the legendary Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti, who has had a cult following since even before his tragically early

An Appreciation of Ilona Eibenschütz

by admin / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / March 2, 2018

Historical recordings provide an invaluable opportunity to hear the artistry of performers trained in the 19th century tradition of composers whose music we still revere today. While some composers actually recorded their own works themselves

Magical Maryla

by admin / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / February 20, 2018

The Polish pianist Maryla Jonas is one whose name has all but been forgotten except by the most ardent piano fans and record collectors. First pressings as well as early LP discs of her 78rpm

The Marvellous Marcelle Meyer

by admin / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / February 20, 2018

This is an edited version of an article previously published in the now defunct magazine Classical Recordings Quarterly. A famous 1921 portrait by Jacques-Émile Blanche entitled ‘Le groupe des Six’ depicts five of the six composers

The Firebrand

by Mark Ainley / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / August 19, 2014

The Israeli-American pianist Natan Brand was one of the most fiery of pianists, a towering talent with a mercurial temperament that fuelled his impassioned conceptions. When he died in 1990 at the age of 46,

Twilight of a God

by Mark Ainley / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / April 23, 2012

Alfred Cortot’s name is sometimes uttered with disdain for his technical ability at the keyboard. It is indeed a fact that some of Cortot’s performances have wrong notes, something that our sanitized ears today are

Dinu Lipatti: The Chopin Concerto Scandal

by Mark Ainley / Feature / Recordings / No Comments / March 19, 2011

In 1966, EMI issued a previously unknown recording of Chopin’s Piano Concerto #1 in E Minor featuring the pianist Dinu Lipatti. No orchestra or conductor was named. On the record jacket of the British release

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