Géza Anda, whose career started late in the 1950s, became an international star on the piano after he helped out on a concert for a sick pianist – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. For the most part of his sadly too-short career Anda was a Deutsche Grammophon artist and left, compared to other pianists, a small but important legacy on this label. His Mozart piano concerto cycle was the first one which was conducted by the soloist from the piano and is still one of the best-selling cycles. Included are recordings with Herbert von Karajan (live from Salzburg) and Ferenc Fricsay with whom he also recorded the Beethoven Triple Concerto together with Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Pierre Fournier. This limited edition also features the first CD release of some rare shellack recordings of music by Bach/Bussoni, Scarlatti and Brahms.

Tracklist:

Géza Anda, piano

CD1 BARTÓK Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Nos. 1–3

Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay

CD2 BRAHMS Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2

Eberhard Finke cello; Berliner Philharmoniker, Ferenc Fricsay

BARTÓK Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra

Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay

CD3 BRAHMS Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2

Eberhard Finke, cello, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

GRIEG Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Berliner Philharmoniker, Rafael Kubelík

CD4 SCHUMANN Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Berliner Philharmoniker, Rafael Kubelík

BEETHOVEN Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello and Orchestra in C major “Triple Concerto” op. 56

Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin, Pierre Fournier, cello, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay

CD5 BARTÓK Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3

Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert von Karajan

MOZART Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 21 in C major K 467

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

FRANCK Variations symphoniques pour piano et orchestre

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum

CD6-13 MOZART Piano Concertos

Géza Anda piano & conductor, Camerata Academica of the Mozarteum Salzburg

CD14 BEETHOVEN 33 Variations in C major for Piano on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli op. 120

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in B flat major D 960 (op. posth.)

CD15 CHOPIN 24 Preludes op. 28 ∙ Polonaise in A flat major “Heroic” op. 53

SCHUMANN Davidsbündlertänze op. 6

CD16 SCHUMANN Kreisleriana op. 16 ∙ Fantasia in C major op. 17 ∙ Symphonic Etudes in C sharp minor op. 13

THE SHELLAC RECORDINGS

CD17 J.S. BACH Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 639 (transc. Busoni) *

SCARLATTI Sonata in A major K 182 (L 139) *

LISZT Mephisto Waltz No. 1 ∙ La Campanella (arr. Busoni)

CHOPIN Etude in E minor op. 25 no. 5 ∙ Mazurka in A minor op. 67 no. 4 ∙ Mazurka in A minor op. 68 no. 2

SCHUMANN Symphonic Etudes in C sharp minor op. 13

BRAHMS 3 Intermezzi op. 117 * ∙ Intermezzo in E minor op. 119 no. 2 *

*new to CD