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- Producer's Note
- Full Track Listing
- Cover Art
Peter Katin in superb virtuoso form for these piano classics
Fabulous stereo Decca recordings show why they were the best!
This release brings together recordings made by Decca both for the domestic British market and for its US label, Richmond, in the late 1950s. By this time Decca had been recording in stereo for half a decade and had thoroughly mastered the art, producing some of the highest quality recordings of the era. For these transfers I used later Decca pressings in excellent to near-mint condition, followed by my standard XR remastering techniques. It is a measure of how well the recordings were made that XR, often a very interventionist procedure, made only the slightest tweaks to the sound - something unlikely just a very few years earlier. The transfers were made at the request of Dr. Katin, and it is my pleasure to be able to present them both to him and to a wider audience.
Andrew Rose
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RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 1
London Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Recorded 17-19 February, 1958, Kingsway Hall, London
Stereo recording produced by Ray Minshull, first issued as Decca SXL 2034 in May 1959
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RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor OP. 18
New Symphony Orchestra of London
conducted by Colin Davis
Recorded 8 May, 1959, Kingsway Hall, London
Stereo recording produced by Erik Smith, first issued as Richmond S29059 in December 1959
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LITOLFF Concerto Symphonique No. 4 OP. 102 - 2nd mvt - Scherzo
London Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Colin Davis
Recorded 2 October, 1959, Kingsway Hall, London
Stereo recording produced by Erik Smith, first issued as Richmond S29061 in June 1960
Peter Katin, piano
XR remastering by Andrew Rose at Pristine Audio, February 2011
Cover artwork based on a photograph of Peter Katin
Total duration: 66:22
