Word: polydor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like his fellow German pianist, Walter Gieseking, Kempff chose to go on playing in Germany under Hitler, now seems disinclined to risk McCarran Act visa difficulties, and the kind of uproar that sent Gieseking home in 1949. He has recorded most of the Beethoven sonatas in the past (for Polydor), but the Decca disks are new and marked by lustrous tone and silent surfaces. Kempff plays with splendid seriousness in the diabolical Hammerklavier, delivers such lighter sonatas as Op. 2, No. 3 with a hint of mischief. Twelve of his performances have been released on six LPs; the rest will...
Bartok: Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, Opus I (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, Roger Désormierė conducting; Polydor-Vox, 1 side LP). Composed in 1904, Bartok's first published piece echoes some early influences, e.g., Liszt and Richard Strauss, but there is striking, youthful originality too. Hungarian-American Pianist Foldes plays' it (and the Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs and Sonatina on the other side) in a clean and fresh style. Recording: good...