Legacy - Complete Philips Classics

A Very Significant Legacy - These 12 CDs contain the complete Philips recordings of the great pianist Clara Haskil from 1951 to 1960. Volume I (chamber music, 5 CDs), contains the very significantcollaboration with the great violinist Artur Grumiaux--the 10Beethoven and some 6 Mozart (K301,304, 376, 378, 454, and 526)violin sonatas. These recordings have long been out of print and are still probably the best recorded performances of thesemasterpieces. Volume II (concertos, 4CDs) contains Haskil s concerto repertiore. She is a master of the Mozart piano concerto andbeautifully performs K271, 466 (two performances), 491, 488, and the concert rondo in A. She also performs Beethoven s Third, Schumann s, Chopin s Second (the Larghetto is delicatelygorgeous), and Falla s Nights in theGardens of Spain. She is assisted by Igor Markevitch, PaulSacher, Rudolph Paumgartner, and Willem Van Otterloo conducting the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, The Hague Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony.The final volume (Solo Repertoire, 3 CDs) contains threeScarlatti sonatas, Mozart s sonata K330 and 9 variations K573,two performances each of Beethoven s sonatas l7 and l8, Schumann s Kinderszenen, Waldszenen, and excerpts from Bunte Blatter. Finally, she offers wonderful performances of Ravel sSontine and Schubert s great B-Flat Sonata. --Far more than enough examples of this great artist s lifetime work.