Alfred Cortot - The Complete French Recordings, 1942-1943

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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Frederic Chopin
    • PERFORMER
      Alfred Cortot
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 05, 2025
    • UPC
      5024709160464
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      APR6046
    • LABEL
      APR
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Piano
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1 in C Major, Op. 10, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    2. No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor Op. 10, No. 4

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    3. No. 3 in E Major, Op. 10, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    4. No. 5 in G-Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 5, "Black Keys"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    5. No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 10, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    6. No. 7 in C Major, Op. 10, No. 7

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    7. No. 8 in F Major, Op. 10, No. 8

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    8. No. 9 in F Minor, Op. 10, No. 9

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    9. No. 11 in E-Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 11

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    10. No. 6 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 10, No. 6

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    11. No. 12 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12, "Revolutionary"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    12. No. 10 in A-Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 10

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    13. No. 13 in A-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 1, "Harp Study"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    14. No. 24 in C Minor, Op. 25, No. 12

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    15. No. 14 in F Minor, Op. 25, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    16. No. 22 in B Minor, Op. 25, No. 10

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    17. No. 15 in F Major, Op. 25, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    18. No. 16 in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 4

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    19. No. 20 in D-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 8

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    20. No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 6

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    21. No. 17 in E Minor, Op. 25, No. 5

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    22. No. 19 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 7

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    23. No. 21 in G-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 9, "Butterfly's Wings"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    24. No. 23 in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 11, "Winter Wind"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    25. I. Allegro maestoso

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    26. II. Scherzo: Molto vivace

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    27. III. Largo

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    28. IV. Finale: Presto non tanto

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    29. No. 1 in C Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    30. No. 2 in A Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    31. No. 3 in G Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    32. No. 4 in E Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    33. No. 5 in D Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    34. No. 6 in B Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    35. No. 7 in A Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    36. No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    37. No. 9 in E Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    38. No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    39. No. 11 in B Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    40. No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    41. No. 13 in F-Sharp Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    42. No. 14 in E-Flat Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    43. No. 15 in D-Flat Major, "Raindrop"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    44. No. 16 in B-Flat Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    45. No. 17 in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    46. No. 18 in F Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    47. No. 19 in E-Flat Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    48. No. 20 in C Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    49. No. 21 in B-Flat Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    50. No. 22 in G Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    51. No. 23 in F Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    52. No. 24 in D Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    53. Waltz No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 18, "Grande valse brillante"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    54. Waltz No. 2 in A-Flat Major, Op. 34, No. 1, "Valse brillante"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    55. Waltz No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2, "Valse brillante"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    56. Waltz No. 4 in F Major, Op. 34, No. 3, "Valse brillante"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    57. Waltz No. 5 in A-Flat Major, Op. 42

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    58. Waltz No. 6 in D-Flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, "Minute"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    59. Waltz No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    60. Waltz No. 8 in A-Flat Major, Op. 64, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    61. Waltz No. 9 in A-Flat Major, Op. 69, No. 1, "L'adieu"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    62. Waltz No. 10 in B Minor, Op. 69, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    63. Waltz No. 11 in G-Flat Major, Op. 70, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    64. Waltz No. 12 in F Minor, Op. 70, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    65. Waltz No. 13 in D-Flat Major, Op. 70, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot

    66. Waltz No. 14 in E Minor, Op. posth.

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Alfred Cortot


What better way to introduce Alfred Cortot to APR's French Piano School series than by focussing on the few recordings he actually made in France. There's a good case for claiming Cortot as the greatest of twentieth century French pianists and he was certainly the most prolific one to record in the 78-rpm era. He began recording as a soloist in 1919 and continued through to the 1950s, but nearly all his discs were made in the USA and the UK. It was only during World War 2 that he recorded solo repertoire in France and these recordings, originally only released locally, are much less well-known than his London HMVs from the 1930s. Cortot seems to have planned these Paris sessions to be a substantial survey of Chopin's works, including the complete Polonaises and Scherzi which he had not previously recorded, but in the end only the Etudes, Preludes and Waltzes were released. Cortot here is still on top form, the post war decline in his playing not yet evident, and these performances are very much complimentary to his earlier ones. Anyone, knowing of Cortot's 'wrong notes' and doubting his technique only has to listen to these Etudes (all first takes!) to hear virtuoso playing of the highest order, and of course Cortot's unique poetry is never in doubt. Perhaps the Preludes best reveal the soul of our pianist, and this set finds him at his finest. As an appendix we have included another rarity, Cortot's first recording of Chopin's B minor Piano Sonata, made in London in 1931. He was to remake the work in the then new Abbey Road studios in 1933, and it is this later version which has been continuously reissued, but this earlier version is in no way inferior and could be argued to be better in parts than the 1933 version. It is also in very good sound for it's time and we are happy to give it some well-deserved attention.