Lili Kraus / Complete Parlophone Recordings

Lili Kraus

Composed by: Brahms; Schubert; Bartok

A pianist whose work transcended time, Lili Kraus was a Hungarian musician with a love for Viennese classics. + Kraus made a career from an early age, performing internationally from the age of 18 and becoming a professor at age 20. + She was not only a great solo artist, but was a renowned collaborator. + As described in Gramophone, “Her superb playing in various violin sonatas by Beethoven and Mozart set standards that have not been matched since the 1930’s.” + The Budapest-born Ms. Kraus (1903-86) studied with, among others Artur Schnabel, Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók before establishing herself as young, professional pianist, professor and later an accomplished chamber musician, performing and recording extensively with, to site but one example, violinist Szymon Goldberg. + Her U.S. debut came in the late 1940s, and for the next decade recorded and concertized constantly. + This Erato box set includes 31 CDs of recordings spanning 25 years, and includes solo works, such as Haydn’s keyboard sonatas, and works by Brahms, Schubert, Chopin and Bartók, to Mozart’s piano concertos and sonatas for piano and violin by Beethoven and Mozart. + This vast catalogue is a must-have for any devoted listener to the piano repertoire.

Price: $129.98