This first recording of the Eule Organ of Magdalen College, Oxford (opened in January 2023) features a wide range of music performed by Alexander Pott. From Wagner to Delius, the repertoire showcases the instrument's German Romantic heritage as well as it's suitability for English 20th-Century transcription, thanks to it's distinctive voice, colour, breadth and sensitivity.

This third volume of Rachmaninov’s Victor recordings contains discs he made ofhis own solo compositions and arrangements from the introduction of electricalrecording in 1925 to a year before his death. The works recorded were those mostin demand by the public, each piece subject to Rachmaninov’s perfectionism andthe version released always the best of a number of takes (for example, therecording of his famous Prelude in C sharp minor is Take 23). Whether it be in the1925 recording of his transcription of Kreisler’s Liebesfreud or the February 1942recording of the same work (in which he displays a cast iron technique only a yearbefore his death), the sheer virtuosity, utter clarity and supreme musicianshipof Rachmaninov’s playing style are undiminished. The first two releases in thisseries have been acclaimed for their superb remastering.

The fifth volume in this much admired series offers another fascinating anthology.Of the 17 pianists, the two oldest are the long-lived Cornelia Rider-Possart(1865-1963) who can be heard on an exceptionally rare, non-commercial 1926Berlin disc, in the first recording of Scriabin’s Etude, Op. 42, No. 3, and EtelkaFreund (1879-1977), a pupil of Brahms, who performs one of his Intermezzos in1952. Jean Melville, a distant relation of Arthur Sullivan, plays Valse arabesquein London in 1923, whilst Johana Harris who, together with her husband, theAmerican composer Roy Harris, enjoyed a highly successful career, can be heardplaying Frescobaldi in Los Angeles.

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