[78-L] Show Pan

[Don Cox]

On 12/07/2012, Stewart, Joseph R wrote:

> Matthew Duncan <recordgeek334578 at yahoo.com> wrote: In the last few
> years I have become more and more interested in piano music outside of
> my usual collecting areas (e.g. Jazz, Blues, Boogie Woogie). I
> currently own two interpretations of Chopin's "Revolutionary Study".?
> One is by Irene Scharrer from the early 30s on Columbia and the other
> is by Ignace Paderewski on HMV. Are there any other versions of this I
> should look out for?? I would be interested in suggestions and
> opinions on the suggested versions that I could find on 78.
> 
> The Paderewski is definitely one of the most famous versions from the
> 78 era, but there were also famous versions by Alfred Cortot, Ignaz
> Friedman, and Vladimir de Pachmann among others. (Now, if you want to
> talk about the LP & current eras, you can add Horowitz, Ashkenazy,
> Richter, Gavrilov, and on and and on and on. I'm not sure if Horowitz
> recorded it on shellac--anybody know?)
> 
The official recordings are from the LP period. (There are 78s by
Horowitz of several other Etudes.)

According to this discography there are pirate recordings from 1946 and
1947.

http://vladimirhorowitz.hostzi.com/1_26_Alphabetical-A-K.html

Regards
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Don Cox
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