Edith Picht=Axenfeld - Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 & Op. 25 - Japan CD

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Edith Picht=Axenfeld

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[Tower Records "Sony Classical" Special Selection, 10th season] The only Chopin recording left by Axenfeldt, a great Bach master. German harpsichordist and piano player Edith Picht-Axenfeldt (1914-2001) was known as a great Bach master. She played bass in Karajan's recordings of Bach and Handel in the 1960s, and her recordings of Bach's major solo keyboard works in the late 1970s and 1980s are known as milestones in the history of recordings, but her recordings of non-Bach works are surprisingly few. Since 2001, live recordings of Chopin's Brahms and Schubert at the Kusatsu Music Festival have been unearthed to rave reviews, but this recording of the complete Chopin Exercises, made in 1975, is Picht-Axenfeldt's only recording of Chopin. The performance is a unique masterpiece. Recording: October 11 & 12, 1975 / Location: Ishibashi Memorial Hall, Tokyo, Japan

Tracklisting:

1 12 ETUDES. OP.10 NO.1 IN C MAJOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
2 12 ETUDES. OP.10 NO.2 IN A MINOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
3 12 ETUDES. OP.10 NO.3 IN E MAJOR. 'L'ADIEU' / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
4 12 ETUDES. OP.10 NO.4 IN C-SHARP MINOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
5 12 ETUDES. OP.10 NO.5 IN G-FLAT MAJOR. 'BLACK KEYS' / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
6 12 ETUDES. OP.10 NO.6 IN E-FLAT MINOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
7 12 ETUDES. OP.10 NO.7 IN C MAJOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
8 12 ETUDES. OP.10 NO.8 IN F MAJOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
9 12 ETUDES. OP.10 NO.9 IN F MINOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
10 12 ETUDES. OP.10 NO.10 IN A-FLAT MAJOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
11 12 ETUDES. OP.10 NO.11 IN E-FLAT MAJOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
12 12 ETUDES. OP.10 NO.12 IN C MINOR. 'REVOLUTIONARY' / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
13 12 ETUDES. OP.25 NO.1 IN A-FLAT MAJOR. 'AEOLIAN HARP' / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
14 12 ETUDES. OP.25 NO.2 IN F MINOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
15 12 ETUDES. OP.25 NO.3 IN F MAJOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
16 12 ETUDES. OP.25 NO.4 IN A MINOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
17 12 ETUDES. OP.25 NO.5 IN E MINOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
18 12 ETUDES. OP.25 NO.6 IN G-SHARP MINOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
19 12 ETUDES. OP.25 NO.7 IN C-SHARP MINOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
20 12 ETUDES. OP.25 NO.8 IN D-FLAT MAJOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
21 12 ETUDES. OP.25 NO.9 IN G-FLAT MAJOR. 'BUTTERFLIES' / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
22 12 ETUDES. OP.25 NO.10 IN B MINOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
23 12 ETUDES. OP.25 NO.11 IN A MINOR. 'WINTER WIND' / Edith Picht-Axenfeld
24 12 ETUDES. OP.25 NO.12 IN C MINOR / Edith Picht-Axenfeld