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Chopin's etudes provide a lamentable example. This set of 24 studies, taken as a whole, forms one of the great milestones in the history of music, yet the only American recording is a two-volume Columbia set which was entrusted to Edward Kilenyi, a young virtuoso who has proven himself utterly incapable of fulfilling such a responsibility...
Chopin: Twelve Etudes, Opus 25 (Edward Kilenyi, pianist; Columbia; 6 sides). The famed Winter Wind, and other studies in their first complete edition, played fleetly, skin-deeply by a handsome young man who has yet to fulfill early promises...
Schubert: Fantasia in C Major ("The Wanderer") (Edward Kilenyi, pianist, with orchestra conducted by Selmar Meyrowitz; Columbia: 6 sides; $3.50). Based in part on a Schubert song, expanded into a concerto by Franz Liszt, this glittering romantic work here gets its best recording to date...
Chopin: Waltzes (Edward Kilenyi; Columbia: 10 sides). Pianist Kilenyi makes all 14 of Chopin's familiar waltzes glitter like cut steel...