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Icon: Alfred Cortot Reviews
Icon: Alfred Cortot Reviews
| 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful  Mandatory purchase for admirers of great piano and Cortot, By Piso Mojado (The third coast) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Alfred Cortot: The Master Pianist (Audio CD) EMI's new 7-CD "Icon" box gathers together all od Cortot-Thibaud-Casals chamber music and Brahms double concerto, with a selection of Cortot's most admired solo recordings, many in re-masterings from 2006-2008 in startlingly vivid sound with brilliant treble and full bass ... Cortot's famous patented bass rumbles are all there ... with no frying bacon scratch, very little surface noise, and no audible compression. To connoisseurs of the piano and Cortot admirers, it's what I call a mandatory purchase. Debussy's Preludes Book I and Ravel's Sonatine are among the best things here, and the fabulous Chopin playing by one of the great pianists of the last century. Full booklet and recording details. The two Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies from Cortot's absolute prime have seldom if ever been played with such fun and hilarity. Although many collectors, including this one, have long had all the contents in other pressings and re-masterings, these are particularly enjoyable in the new... Read more |
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