Virtuoso French pianist Madeleine de Valmalète (1899-1999) devoted most of her life to teaching, touring only on occasion, and making only one group of issued studio recordings in 1928. With Rediscovered Master: Madeleine de Valmalète, Arbiter has assembled the scattered recorded remnants of her work into a tangible form, ranging from her 1928 session, held when de Valmalète was only 29, to a private DAT made of her playing in 1992, when she was 93. De Valmalète was one of history's truly great pianists, with a talent and ...
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Virtuoso French pianist Madeleine de Valmalète (1899-1999) devoted most of her life to teaching, touring only on occasion, and making only one group of issued studio recordings in 1928. With Rediscovered Master: Madeleine de Valmalète, Arbiter has assembled the scattered recorded remnants of her work into a tangible form, ranging from her 1928 session, held when de Valmalète was only 29, to a private DAT made of her playing in 1992, when she was 93. De Valmalète was one of history's truly great pianists, with a talent and approach as rare and unusual as the honorific title she bore, that of Marquise. De Valmalète was born an aristocrat, and early on enjoyed a successful concert career where her talents were endorsed by no less than Saint-Saëns and Busoni. Despite her royal privilege, de Valmalète lost her fortune twice in her long lifetime and had to rely on her regal talent at the keyboard to win back something of her comfort zone. The late recordings are amazing -- while de Valmalète gets off to a...
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