Arbiter's Eugen d'Albert: The Centaur Pianist is a collection exclusively devoted to all but one of the surviving phonograph recordings of Scots pianist Eugen d'Albert, a veritable titan among pianist-composers of a very remote era. D'Albert emerges here, in recordings so rare that several exist only in single copies, as an audible representative of the taste and style prevalent in the late Romantic and early Modern periods, an era so maligned and misunderstood that its once vaunted and proud traditions have largely ...
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Arbiter's Eugen d'Albert: The Centaur Pianist is a collection exclusively devoted to all but one of the surviving phonograph recordings of Scots pianist Eugen d'Albert, a veritable titan among pianist-composers of a very remote era. D'Albert emerges here, in recordings so rare that several exist only in single copies, as an audible representative of the taste and style prevalent in the late Romantic and early Modern periods, an era so maligned and misunderstood that its once vaunted and proud traditions have largely disappeared from the current context. Among critics, d'Albert's own recorded contributions heretofore have been regarded with suspicion, despite the fact that he made more records than any student of Franz Liszt, aside from Moriz Rosenthal. In past years, critics have accused d'Albert of being too fast and loose with musical texts, carelessly racing through his recordings -- Harold C. Schonberg once called him "eccentric, sloppy and undisciplined." Nearly all of d'Albert's recordings are...
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