Rosalyn Tureck: The Young Firebrand (CD)

Live recordings from the 1930s and 40s.
[1994, Mono, 71 minutes]

Here is extraordinary pianism by any standard." "Her playing strikes sparks and is streaked with imagination and bravura." Gramophone

"A reading of fierce conviction and considerable personality that should be heard by anyone who loves the work [Brahms: Handel Variations]." "The Scarlatti aria is spun out with golden legato and bewitching tonal shadings and half-tints." "Tureck digs into Brahms's thorny textures like a ravenous panther deprived of a meal." Keyboard Classics

Mendelssohn-Hutcheson: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Scherzo
Liszt: Transcendental Etudes (6) after Paganini, S 140
Debussy: Estampes - La soirée dans Grenade, L. 100/2
Debussy: Preludes, Book 1 - La danse de Puck, L. 117/11
Graun: Gigue
Scarlatti, A.: Toccata in A minor - Aria (Primo e secondo libro di Toccate no 2; Toccate per Cembalo no 11)
Scarlatti, A.: Toccata in A minor - Minuetto (Primo e secondo libro di Toccate no 4; Toccate per Cembalo no 10)
Paradies: Toccata for harpsichord in A major
Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, Op. 24

Rosalyn Tureck, piano