Anniversary Edition

NEUHAUS NEUHAUS TSYGANOV BORISOVSKY SHIRINSKY THE MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GAUK GOLOVANOV

“There are people whose profession is absolutely inseparable from their life. These are enthusiasts of their work, people of tireless creative activity, and their course of life is nothing but creative enthusiasm. Such is Heinrich Gustavovich Neuhaus”, wrote Viktor Delson, a remarkable researcher of piano music. The outstanding Polish composer Karol Szymanowski dubbed Neuhaus “Heinrich the Great”. The pianist, educator, author of books, essays and reviews, and brilliant connoisseur of poetry, painting and philosophy, he was fluent in six languages and did not fit in the narrow frames of a mere musical performer. Neuhaus’s concert performances attracted sophisticated connoisseurs who had heard Rachmaninoff and Horowitz and general public at large. Although Neuhaus thought out every interpretation of the works he played, his piano sounded impulsively and passionately as though the music was born straight from under the pianist’s fingers. Neuhaus, who had a talent for composition and rejected a conducting career when he was young, possessed an ability to get the feel of music so that his performances seemed to come from the composers themselves. One of the most prominent piano teachers of the 20th century, Heinrich Neuhaus enjoyed unshakeable authority with his students and fellow teachers. Most of his recordings date back to the late 1940s and early 1950s. This anniversary set dedicated to the 130th anniversary of Heinrich Neuhaus includes well known, “canonical” works, and also never before released recordings of Shostakovich’s preludes, Beethoven’s piano quartet and Anton Arensky’s suite Silhouettes for piano four hands recorded together with the son and prominent pianist Stanislav Neuhaus.

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