Edvard Grieg:
1.01 - 1.03 Piano Concerto in A minor, op.16 * [31'05]
Johannes Brahms:
1.04 - 1.07 Johannes Brahms - Four Ballades, op.10 [22'00]
1.08 - 1.23 Johannes Brahms - 16 Waltzes, op.39 [21'20]
Edvard Grieg:
2.01 Ballade in G minor, op.24 [20'14]
2.02 - 2.03 Norwegian Folk Tunes, op.66 - No.14 & No.18 [8'12]
2.04 - 2.12 Nine Lyric Pieces from op.12, op.43, op.47 & op.57 [26'52]
Franz Liszt:
2.13 - 2.16 Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S.124 * [19'42]
Richard Farrell- piano; Halle Orchestra conducted by George Weldon*
Atoll ACD208 [recorded 1956 - 1958; CD issued 2008]
[CD-rip; flacs, cover, inlay and booklet scans]
Grieg and Liszt Concertos recorded at Free Trade Hall, Manchester on 23 - 24 August 1956.
Recording engineer: Robert Fine; Producer: Wilma Cozart.
Recording details for the other works are not given.
Richard Farrell (1926-58) was probably New Zealand's finest pianist. Like other contemporaneous pianists, Dinu Lipatti, Noel Mewton-Wood and William Kapell, he died tragically young. And like Dennis Brain, he died in a traffic accident on an English road.
Atoll's Wayne Laird licensed these recordings from EMI in the UK. All were made for Pye-Nixa (later taken over by EMI) and most were only issued originally in mono. The two piano concertos, recorded by a famous team from Mercury did receive an issue in stereo in the USA on the Mercury label and there was a short-lived CD release on EMI's punning Phoenixa label. The Brahms recordings are here receiving their first stereo release.
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