Various Artists - Maitres Du Piano - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

When the ORFEO tag was established in Munich forty years ago, surely no one with the music scene back then would have predicted that the record company would develop into a firmly established player on the classical music market. One of the tag's main priorities in the early years was vocal music, with opera rarities top of the list and since the mid 1980s the re-use of historic tape recordings. Big names featured on the tag's own productions, while ORFEO also developed into a talent factory by discovering and nurturing young artist. This InchLegendary PianistsInch 10 album set for the anniversary of 40 years of ORFEO tag history features nine pianists with historical and modern recordings dating from the 1950s up until the 2000s.

Album Tracks 1. Rondo 2. Impromptu in G Flat Major 3. Invitation to a Dance 4. Little Bird 5. Humoresque 6. Bird As Prophet 7. Hunting Song 8. Dream of Love No. 3 9. Fantasie-Impromptu 10. Barcarolle 11. Butterfly 12. Poem 13. 3 Preludes 14. Melodie in F 15. Romanian Folkdances 1. Adagio Sostenuto 2. Song Without Words, Op. 102, No. 5 3. Adagietto 4. Leise Flehen Meine Lieder 5. October 6. Barcarolle 7. Prelude Op. 28, No. 15 8. Londonderry Air 9. Moment Musical 10. Andante Canabile 11. Heimweh 12. Mephisto Waltz 1. Air with Variations 'Harmonious Blacksmith' 2. Andante in F 3. Slavonic Dance No. 1 4. Waltz in a Flat 5. No. 19 Little Romance 6. No. 10 Merry Peasant 7. March of the Trolls 8. Song Without Words in F 9. Sparks 10. The Miller & The Stream 11. Menuet 12. Flight of the Bumble-Bee 13. The Swan 14. Spring Song 15. To Spring 16. La Plus Que Lente 17. Caprice Veinnois 18. Polka Italienne 19. Souvenir in D

The pianist Maria Kihlgren studied at Göteborgs Musikhögskola and at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna gaining her diploma in 1979. She has performed in Sweden and several European countries, the USA and South America. In recent years she has also devoted herself to recordings. Her albums, with solo music for piano on the Sterling tag, have been internationally acclaimed. All of them have a specific theme, with cover pictures by her father, the painter Carl Speglitz. The present includes works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Reger, Debussy, de Falla, and more.