To find most commercial classical 78 rpm and early LP recordings, you should consider buying a copy of The World Encyclopedia of Recorded Music by Clough and Cuming, 3 volumes, as close to a 78 classical bible as was ever printed.

Steve Smolian

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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Early Two-Pianos Recordings

Dear Dennis,

thank you for your answer, I forward it to my colleague.

Best,
Ferenc

2015-10-29 18:04 GMT+01:00 Dennis Rooney <[log in to unmask]>:

> The following are pre-WW2 recordings:
>
> MOZART
> Wiener et Doucet (Columbia, FR)
> Milton Kaye and Grace Castagnetta (Musicraft, USA)
>
> LISZT
> Marc and Michal Hambourg (HMV, UK)
>
> The Brahms was not recorded in that form until the Lp era.
>
> DDR
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Ferenc János Szabó 
> <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> >
> >
> > I forward a question of one of my colleagues in the Institute of
> Musicology
> > (Hungarian Academy of Sciences):
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I am working on an article dealing with Bartók and Pásztory two 
> > pianos carrier, and I would like to compare their recordings 
> > (unfortunately
> there
> > are very few of them, and mainly fragments) with ones made by such 
> > famous piano-duos as Bartlett and Robertson or Joseph and Rosina 
> > Lhevinne, who were their contemporaries. I am interested in the 
> > recordings of the following composition:
> >
> >
> >
> > Mozart, Sonata for two pianos KV 448
> >
> > Debussy, En blanc et noir.
> >
> > Brahms, Sonata for two pianos op. 34b
> >
> > and Liszt, Concerto Pathetic
> >
> >
> >
> > I found some examples on the YouTube, in the case of Mozart there is 
> > a recording by Joseph and Rosina Lhevinne, 1939 (YouTube), Regarding
> Debussy,
> > I found three recordings from this area: Bartlett & Robinson, 1941, 
> > Gaby
> &
> > Robert Casadesus, 1954 Genenviève Joy, Jaquelin Bonneau 1955. 
> > However,
> I’d
> > like to find something which was made earlier then 1950s. As for 
> > Brahms
> and
> > Liszt, unfortunately, I did not find anything which was recorded 
> > about
> that
> > time.
> >
> > I would be grateful for any information.
> >
> > With Best Wishes,
> >
> > Virág Büky
> >
> >
> > If you can help in her research with any information, please write 
> > to [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >
> > With best wishes,
> >
> > Ferenc Szabó
> >
> >
> > "Lendület" Archives and Research Group of 20th-21st Century 
> > Hungarian
> Music
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> >
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