The Piano Recordings of Alfred
Cortot
- Albeniz
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- Malaguena: 1919, 1923,
1930
- Seguidillas op 232:
1919, 1923, 1930
- Sous le Palmier op 232
#3 1926
- Triana: 1922
- Bach
- Brandenburg Concerto
#5: 1932 Paris Conservatoire Orch.
- Bach/Cortot
- Beethoven
- Trio op 121a: 1926
Thibaud, Casals
- Trio op 97: 1928
Thibaud, Casals
- Variations on Bei
Mannern: 1927 Casals
- Violin Sonata op
47:1929 Thibaud
- Brahms/Cortot
- Cradle Song op 49 #4:
1925, 1954
- Chausson
- Concerto Piano Violin
String Quartet: 1931 Thibaud
- Chopin
- Ballade op 23: 1926,
1929, 1933
- Ballade op 23: pt. II:
1925
- Ballade op 38: 1929,
1933
- Ballade op 47: 1929,
1933
- Ballade op 52: 1929,
1933
- Barcarolle op 60:1933
1951
- Berceuse op 57: 1920,
1923, 1926, 1949,1954, 1957
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- Concerto op 21: 1935
Barbirolli
- Etude op 10 #3: 1951,
1952
- Etude op 10 #4: 1951
- Etude op 10 #5: 1920,
1923, 1954 (2 versions)
- Etude op 25 #1: 1925
- Etude op 25 #2: 1922,
1954
- Etude op 25 #3: 1922
- Etude op 25 #9: 1920,
1923, 1952, 1954 (2 versions)
- Etude op 25 #11:1923
- Etudes op 10: 1933,
1942
- Etudes op 25: 1934,
1942
- Fantasy Impromptu op
66: 1933
- Fantasy op 49: 1933,
1952
- Grand Polonaise op 22:
1923, 1952
- Impromptu op 29: 1922,
1933
- Impromptu op 36: 1925,
1933, 1952
- Impromptu op 51: 1933
- Nocturne op 9 #2:
1929, 1949, 1952, 1957
- Nocturne op 15 #1:
1951
- Nocturne op 15 #2:
1948, 1954 (2 versions)
- Nocturne op 27 #1:
1951
- Nocturne op 55 #1:
1947
- Nocturne op 55 #2:
1947
- Nouvelle Etudes: 1947,
1949
- Polonaise Fantasy op
61:1947
- Polonaise op 53: 1933,
1952
- Prelude op 28 #12:
1928
- Prelude op 28 #15:
1950, 1952
- Prelude op 45: 1947,
1949
- Preludes op 28:1926,
1933/4, 1942, 1955
- Scherzo op 31: 1952
- Scherzo op 39: 1952
- Sonata op 35: 1928,
1933, 1952, 1953, 1956
- Sonata op 58: 1931,
1933
- Tarantelle op 43:
1919, 1920, 1923, 1931, 1933, 1954
- Waltz E Minor op post:
1934, 1943
- Waltz op 18: 1934,
1943
- Waltz op 34 #1: 1934,
1943
- Waltz op 34 #2: 1934,
1943
- Waltz op 34 #3: 1934,
1943
- Waltz op 42: 1934,
1943
- Waltz op 64 #1: 1934,
1943,1954,1957
- Waltz op 64 #2:
1925,1934,1943,1954 (2 versions)
- Waltz op 64 #3: 1934,
1943
- Waltz op 69 #1: 1931,
1934, 1943,1954,1957
- Waltz op 69 #2: 1934,
1943
- Waltz op 70 #1: 1934,
1943, 1954
- Waltz op 70 #2: 1934,
1943, 1954
- Waltz op 70 #3: 1934,
1943
- Chopin/Liszt
- My Joys: 1919, 1923,
1939
- Ring: 1939
- Spring: 1939
- Debussy
- Aupres de Cette Grotte
Sombre (Song):1936 Teyte
- Ballade Des Femmes de
Paris (Song):1936 Teyte
- Children's Corner
Suite: 1923, 1928, 1947
- Clair de Lune (Song):
1936 Teyte
- Colloque Sentimental
(Song):1936 Teyte
- Crois Mon Conseil
Chere Climene (Song): 1936 Teyte
- De Greve (Song):1936
Teyte
- En Sourdine
(Song):1936 Teyte
- Fantoches (Song):1936
Teyte
- Girl With the Flaxen
Hair: 1919, 1928, 1931
- Goldfish: 1952 [not
sure about this one----A.E.]
- Golliwog's Cakewalk:
1952
- Hills of Anacapri:
1931
- Je Tremble En Voyant
Ton Visage (Song): 1936 Teyte
- La Chevelure
(Song):1936 Teyte
- La Flute de Pan
(Song):1936 Teyte
- Le Faune (Song):1936
Teyte
- Le Tombeau Des Naiades
(Song):1936 Teyte
- Les Ingenus
(Song):1936 Teyte
- Minstrels: 1919, 1931
- Preludes Book
1:1930/1, 1949
- Serenade for the
Doll:1931
- Sunken Cathedral:1923,
1947
- Violin Sonata: 1929
- Wind in the Plain:
1928
- Debussy/Hartmann
- Faure
- Berceuse (from Dolly):1925
- Berceuse: 1931 Thibaud
- Romance: 1922
- Violin Sonata op 13:
1927 Thibaud
- Franck
- Prelude Aria Finale:
1932
- Prelude Chorale and
Fugue:1929
- Quintet:1927
International
- Symphonic Variations
1927, 1933 Ronald, London
- Violin Sonata: 1923,
1929 Thibaud
- Handel
- Harmonious
Blacksmith:1926
- Haydn
- Trio #25 G Major: 1927
Thibaud, Casals
- Liszt
- Au Bord d'Une
Source:1923
- Hungarian Rhapsody
#2:1926, 1952
- Hungarian Rhapsody #2
Part 1:1920
- Hungarian Rhapsody #2
Part 2:1923
- Hungarian Rhapsody #11:1925,
1926, 1952, 1953
- La Leggierezza: 1919,
1923, 1931
- Sonata: 1929
- St. Francis Walking on
the Waves: 1935
- Massenet
- Mendelssohn
- Rondo Capriccioso op
14:1923
- Scherzo op 16 #2:1923
- Song Without Words op
19 #1:1937
- Trio op 49:1927
Thibaud, Casals
- Variations Serieuses
op 54: 1937,1950
- Purcell/Henderson
- Air,Gavotte,Minuets,Siciliana:
1937, 1954
- Ravel
- Concerto Left
Hand:1939 Munch
- Jeux d'eau: 1920,
1923, 1931
- Sonatine:1931
- Saint-Saens
- Bouree op 135 Left
Hand:1923,1952
- Concerto op 44:1935
Munch
- Etude in Form of Waltz
op 52 #6:1919,1931
- Schubert
- 12 Landler op 171:
1937,1951
- Impromptu op 90 #3:
- Moment Musical op 94
#3: 1952, 1954
- Trio op 99:1926
Thibaud, Casals
- Schubert/Cortot
- Litanei: 1925, 1937,
1948, 1952
- Schumann
- Carnaval op 9: 1923,
1928, 1953
- Concerto op 54:1923,
1927, 1934 Ronald
- Concerto op.54:1936
(Uruguay radio)
- Concerto op 54:1951
Fricsay, RIAS
- Davidsbundlertanze op
6: 1937
- Des Abends op 12 #1:
1937
- Dichterliebe op
48:1935/Panzera, 1956/Souzay
- Kinderscenen op 15:
1935, 1947, 1953
- Kreisleriana op
16:1935
- Papillons op 2:1935
- Prophet Bird op 82 #7:
1948, 1953
- Symphonic Etudes op
13: 1929,1953
- Trio op 63:1928
Thibaud, Casals
- Scriabin
- Verdi/Liszt
- Rigoletto Paraphrase:
1920,1923,1926
- Vivaldi/Cortot
- Weber
- Invitation to the
Dance op 65:1923,1926
- Sonata #2:1939
Extant unpublished recordings:
Chopin
·
Four Ballades: 1957
·
Preludes, Op.28: 1957
Franck
- Variations
Symphoniques: 1957/ Lausanne Orch.
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas were recorded twice, once with Cortot's comments.
They ought to be in Pathe Marconi's Paris archive. They may date from 1957.
· Chopin/Liszt
· Franck/Cortot
- Prelude, Fugue, Variation
· Schumann
Sonata #2: 1954
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A film exists of Cortot playing most of Debussy's
Children's Corner Suite.
·
Another film
of Cortot playing the Les Adieu waltz of Chopin is also out there.
·
The recent video The art of The Piano has Cortot giving a spellbinding master
class on The Poet Speaks by Schumann.
·
There is also a very early slow motion silent film of Cortot playing Chopin
Op. 10 # 1.
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