1949 Town Hall Recital

Chopin (Artist), Novaes (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1998)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Music & Arts Program
• ASIN: B00000DC3B
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #680,443 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Scherzo No. 3 In C-sharp Minor, Op. 39

2. Sonata No.3 In B Minor, Op.58: 1st Movement

3. Sonata No.3 In B Minor, Op.58: 2nd Movement

4. Sonata No.3 In B Minor, Op.58: 3rd Movement

5. Sonata No.3 In B Minor, Op.58: 4th Movement

6. Etude In E Major, Op.10, No.3

7. Sonata No.2 In B-flat Major, Op.35: 1st Movement: Grave; Doppio movimento

8. Sonata No.2 In B-flat Major, Op.35: 2nd Movement: Scherzo

9. Sonata No.2 In B-flat Major, Op.35: 3rd Movement: Marche funebre (Lento)

10. Sonata No.2 In B-flat Major, Op.35: 4th Movement: Presto

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. 24 Preludes, Op.28: No. 1 In C Major

2. 24 Preludes, Op.28: No.2 In A Minor

3. 24 Preludes, Op.28: No.3 In G Minor

4. 24 Preludes, Op.28: No.4 In E Minor

5. 24 Preludes, Op.28: No.5 In D Major

6. 24 Preludes, Op.28: No.6 In B Minor

7. 24 Preludes, Op.28: No.7 In A Major

8. 24 Preludes, Op.28: No.8 In F-sharp Minor

9. 24 Preludes, Op.28: No.9 In E Major

10. 24 Preludes, Op.28: No.10 In C-sharp Minor

See all 31 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Beware!, November 17, 2001

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This review is from: 1949 Town Hall Recital (Audio CD)

I'm a great fan of Guiomar Novaes and think she's not known and appreciated as she ought to be. Also, the playing on these discs is wonderful. So why do I give it only two stars? The SOUND! The selections from the Town Hall recital are all from deteriorated acetate discs, and the sound quality ranges from bad to gawdawful, which means all of one disc and part of another. The record company is kind enough to warn you about this on the cover, but I figure that Amazon customers need a similar warning. So I don't recommend this unless you absolutely have to have everything ever recorded by Novaes.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Playing - Aweful Sound, February 7, 2005

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D. Richards - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1949 Town Hall Recital (Audio CD)

I have to concur with the other reviewer - The sound is horrible. However, Novaes is on fire in her Town Hall performance. If you can get past the admittedly horrific sound there is an energy that can come only from a live performance. Novaes will have you on the edge of your seat. I'll give it three stars and argue that if you are a Novaes fan this recording is worth having.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Distinction and refinement!, March 30, 2010

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1949 Town Hall Recital (Audio CD)

Chopin's bicentennial year should be a magnificent opportunity to release many hidden treasures of historical recordings - just to cite three of them: the famous cycle of ballads recorded by Robert Casadesus during the middle forties, an edition of selected works of Witold Malcuzinsky, the release of the famous set of Preludes of Jeanne Marie Darre, a new release of the grateful set of Polonaises of Schura Cherkasky, a deluxe edition of the great Titans of the past (Cortot, Rosenthal, Brailovsky, Friedman), a special edition of Abbey Simon playing Chopin.

But the year promises many future projects to be recorded. For instance, the cycle of Chopin by Pollini (I am not a Pollini's admirer) in Carnegie Hall, the schedule of Katsaris, Freire or Pires all around the world invites us to be optimistic in this sense.

This long introduction makes one revisits part of a forgotten and overlooked discography on LP format, and enjoy about this splendid and genuinely expressive Brazilian pianist, like Guiomar Novaes was.

A brilliant pianist whose tonal colorfulness, formidable praising and diamantine fingering is a true invitation and obviously an opportunity to enjoy about one of these pleasant musical findings for this new emerging generations of music lovers born in the middle sixties.

If you want to discover a new angle and approach around Chopin's music playing, you should not miss this CD.

You will be rewarded, despite the terrible sound remastering.