Italian Concerto, Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, Toccatas, Concerto : Schnabel, Boult / LSO

GREAT PIANISTS
Artur Schnabel (1882-1951) / 1936-1950 Bach Recordings

This release contains all of Schnabel’s commercial disc recordings of the works of J. S. Bach, a composer whose keyboard music the pianist felt was too intimate for performance in the concert hall.
One of Schnabel’s greatest talents was the ability to employ not only seemingly natural tempos but, more importantly, the perfect tempo relationship between sections and movements.
Of the recording of the Toccata in C minor, BWV 911, one critic wrote upon its release, ‘Schnabel has rarely made a more satisfying recording than this.
He refuses speed and brilliance to the opening Allegro moderato, taking it more slowly than is usual… he makes the transition to the Adagio seem inevitably right.’ The Prelude and Fugue from The Well- Tempered Clavier was the last recording Schnabel made before his death in 1951. ( NAXOS )

J.S. BACH:
Italian Concerto in F, BWV 971
　Recorded 11th November 1938, London
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903
　Recorded 15th-16th June 1948, London
Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 850 (from Book 1 of The Well-Tempered Clavier)
　Recorded 13th June 1950, London
Toccata in C minor, BWV 911
Toccata in D major, BWV 912
　Recorded 24th November 1937, London
Concerto No. 2 in C major for Two Keyboards, BWV1061
　with Karl Ulrich Schnabel, piano
　London Symphony Orchestra / Adrian Boult
　Recorded 28th October 1936, London

Artur Schnabel, piano