WA Mozart
Music for Piano Four Hands
Sonata in D Major, K. 381
Sonata in C Major, K. 521
Adagio and Allegro in f minor, K. 594
Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 358
Sonata in F Major, K.497
Nadia Reisenberg, piano
Artur Balsam, piano
BRIDGE 9148
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These classic recordings, originally
released on LPs by Musical Heritage Society, and brought to CD for
the first time, bring together two of the leading Mozart pianists of
their generation–Nadia Reisenberg and Artur Balsam.
Reisenberg was born in Russia, studying there with Leonid Nicolaieff
(the teacher of Shostakovich, among many other leading Russian
pianists). In the USA, Ms. Reisenberg studied with the
legendary Josef Hoffman, at the Curtis Institute. Among Ms.
Reisenberg's outstanding achievements, was the performance of all 27
Piano Concertos of Mozart. Ms. Reisenberg taught at Curtis,
NYU, USC, and the Jerusalem Academy. Artur Balsam was born in
Poland, and won the First Prize in the Berlin Competition of 1930,
and the Mendelssohn Prize in Berlin in 1931. Balsam recorded
hundreds of works of both the solo and chamber repertoire, including
all of Mozart's solo music, and recorded Sonatas with Nathan
Milstein, Zino Francescatti, Joseph Fuchs and Zara Nelsova,
among many others. A number of Balsam's chamber performances
can be heard on BRIDGE
9063, 9066 and
9110.
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