Hommage à BIDÚ SAYÃO
Vol. 4

The Unrivaled Lyric Soprano in Never-Before-Published and Rare Live Radio Performances, and Long Out-of-Print Studio Recordings.

Considered by many music and opera lovers as one of the greatest lyric sopranos of all times, Bidú Sayão had a legendary career which was launched by Arturo Toscanini after hearing  her in Milan in Traviata, Maestro engaged her for her U.S. concert debut with him and  the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall in 1936. From 1937-1952 she was the star of the Metropolitan Opera and the San Francisco Opera, loved and acclaimed by audiences and critics alike.

Donald Voorhees conducts the Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra
Tracks:1, 3-6, 11, 15, 17-20
Orchestra conducted by Wilfred Pelletier
Tracks: 2, 12-14, 16
With  Milne Chernley, Piano
Tracks: 7-10

 1. PUCCINI: Musetta’s Waltz from the opera La Bohème
(9/8/1947)
2. VERDI: Caro Nome (Dearest Name) from the opera Rigoletto
(1938) LP
3. LEONCAVALLO: Ballatella from the opera I Pagliacci
(9/6/1948)
4. GOUNOD: Le roi de Thule & Air des Bijous (The King of Thul & Jewel Song)
from the Opera Faust
(6/9/1947)
5. MASSENET: Adieu notre petit Table (Goodbye our little Table)  from the opera Manon
(6/7/1954)
6. MASSENET: Gavotte from the opera Manon
(10/31/1949)
7. AUBER: L’éclat de rire (Laughing Aria)  from the opera Manon Lescaut
(1938)
8. BARROSO: Para Ninar (Lullaby)
(1939)
9. CAMPRA: Chanson de Papillon (Song of the Butterfly) (1939)
10. BUZZI-PECCIA: La Bella Colombetta- Serenata Veneziana
(1939)
11. TURINA: CANTARES (Songs) 
(9/11/1950)
12. COSTA: Canto da Saudade (Song of Longing)
(1940)
13. COSTA-SALUSSE: Cysnes (Swans)
(1938)
14. LONGAS: Lavandera (The Laundress)
(1938)
15. DUKE: The Bird
(9/8/1947)
16. CAREY: A Spring Morning
(1938)
17. DOUGHERTY: Sonatina (A comical work portraying an reluctant and not quite advance young piano student) (9/6/1948)
18. DOUGHERTY: The Children’s Letter
(10/31/1949)
19. SEAVER: Just for Today
(9/17/1951)
20. ROMBERG: New Moon, Lover, Come Back to Me
(6/1/1953)

Total playing time: 72:11

An Historically Significant Release!

It took 169 years since its initial publication but it is finally here: the first recording ever of the complete “Methode des Methodes” by Moschelès and Fétis.

Pianist Mordecai Shehori performs the Complete Moschelès and Fétis “Methode des Methodes”  20 Études de Perfectionnement
(Etudes for attaining perfection/refinement/sophistication)

In 1838, the pianist, composer and theorist François-Joseph Fétis (25 March 1784 – 26 March 1871), together with the celebrated pianist, composer, conductor and pedagogue Ignaz Moschelès collaborated on an ingenious project of commissioning twelve renowned pianists/composers of their time: Chopin, Thalberg, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Rosenhain, Döhler, Heller, Wolff, Henselt, Méreaux, Benedict, and Taubert, to create one or two etudes each (Chopin composed three) concentrating on what each one considered the most vital element(s) of refined piano playing.
Fétis wrote an extensive analysis (now lost) of the history and direction of piano technique and esthetics up to their time, and Moschelès arranged the etudes with great mastery according to their moods, texture, and most importantly, tonalities, so that they formed into a single large musical structure.
It resulted in a unique and significant collection named “Method of Methods.”  The title certainly lives up to its claim by opening a rare window into the 19th Century Golden Age of the piano concepts, style and philosophy.  By intense study of these works or even by listening alone, one can get a clear picture of how music was conceived and performed in that era.
This work also allows us to understand with greater depth the three celebrated composers that made it to our times, namely Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn.  We must remember that such greatness could not develop in an artistic vacuum but was in fact a result of fertile exchanges of ideas with the now mostly forgotten other ten composers.

Total playing time: 62:54

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 150
Bidú Sayão, Lyric Soprano

Hommage à BIDÚ SAYÃO
Vol. 3

MOZART:  The duet “Lá ci darem la mano” (Give Me Thy Hand)
From the opera Don Giovanni. With Giuseppe Valdengo, Baritone (2/26/1951)
VERDI: The duet “Tutte le feste al tempio” (On the blessed days)
from the opera Rigoletto. With Giuseppe Valdengo, Baritone (2/26/1951)
VERDI: “Addio del passato” (Farewell past) from La Traviata (10/31/1949)
PUCCINI: “Un bel di, vedremo” (One good day, we will see) from the opera Madama Butterfly (11/17/1952)
THOMAS: “Connais-tu le pays” (Do You Know the Land) from the opera Mignon (6/1/1953)
CHOPIN: “Tristesse” (Sadness) Arrangement by Marx of the Etude in E Major, Op. 10, No. 3
((6/7/1954)
CHOPIN: “Volla Farfalletta” (Little Butterfly) Arrangement by Sandoval of the Etude in G-flat Major, Op. 25, No. 9 (4/20/1946)
HAHN: “Si mes vers avaient des ailes” (If My Songs Had Wings) (5/23/1949)
FRENCH TRADITIONAL: “Maman, dites moi” (Mother, Please Explain) (Arrangement by Weckerlin)
(6/1/1953)
FONTENAILLES: “Obstination” (Steadfast) (3/24/1952)
MARX: “Senhorinha Brasiliera” (A Brazilian Lady) (3/24/1952)
VILLA-LOBOS: Selections from the “Forest of the Amazon” (1957)
“Cair da Tarde” (Twilight Song)
“Veleiros” (Sails)
“Tarde Azul” (Blue Dusk)
“Os Indios á Procura del Moç” (Indians in Search of a Girl)
“Canção de Amor” (Love Song)
LONGAS: “El Piropo” (The Amorous Compliment) (1/3/1948)
SANDOVAL: “Mi Ranchito” (My Little Ranch) (6/1/1953)
SANDOVAL: “Eres tú” (You are) (9/17/1951)
OBRADORS: “Del Cabello Más Sutil” (Of the Softest Hair) (4/20/1946)
BRAGA: Engenho Novo (The New Engine) (6/7/1954)
SALTA: “Till the Sandman Comes” (6/1/1953)
YOUNG: “Mountain Girl’s Lament” (1/2/1948)
BLAND: “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” (5/23/1949)
LEHÁR: “I Love You So” from the operetta “The Merry Widow” (6/7/1954) 

Total Playing Time: 64:46

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Cembal d'amour, CD 149
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori Plays Bach-Busoni

Only the second recording ever on one CD of the complete Ten Chorale Preludes by J.S. Bach as arranged by Busoni for piano together with the celebrated Chaconne in D Minor and the mighty Toccata in C Major.

Johann Sebastian Bach- Ferruccio Busoni
Ten Chorale-Preludes
After the original organ works by J. S. Bach “transcribed for piano in chamber style” 1907-09. Dedicated to Mr. Jose Vianna da Motta

 1.  “Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist”
(Come, God Creator)(BWV 667,
ca. 1708-17)                                                  
2.  “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme”
(Awake, the Voice commands)       
(BWV 645, from the cantata BWV 140,
ca. 1731)                                  
3.  “Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland”
(Now comes the gentiles’ Savior)(BWV 659,
ca. 1708-17)                                                  
4.  “Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein” (Rejoice, beloved Christians)
(BWV 734a, ca. 1708-17)                                                 
5.  “Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ” (I call on Thee, Lord Jesus Christ)
(BWV 639, from Das Orgelbüchlein,
Part III, 1713-17)             
6.  “Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf”
(Lord God, now open heaven’s gate)(BWV 617, from Das Orgelbüchlein, Part III, 1713-17)    
7. “Durch Adam Fall ist ganz verderbt”
(All is lost through Adam’s fall)  (First version) (BWV 637, from Das Orgelbüchlein, Part III, 1713-17)
8.  “Durch Adam Fall ist ganz verderbt”
(All is lost through Adam’s fall) 
(Second version)(BWV 705)                                     
9.  “In dir ist Freude” (In You is joy)
(BWV 615, from Das Orgelbüchlein, Part III,
1713-17)             
10.  “Jesus Christus, unser Heiland” (Jesus Christ, Our Savior) (BWV 665,
ca. 1798-9)                                                    
11.  Chaconne in D Minor (From the second violin partita, BWV 1004)      
Organ Toccata in C Major (BWV 564)
12.  Preludio, quasi improvvisando                                            
13.  Intermezzo, adagio- il soprano con intimo e sempre cantando   
14.  Fuga, Moderatamente scherzando, un poco umoristico             

Total Playing Time: 64:46

Price: $13.50

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Cembal d'amour, CD 148
Mindru Katz, Piano

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major,
Op. 73, "Emperor"
The Halle Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, Conductor
(Recorded April 1959, Manchester, England)

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH
Prelude in E-flat Minor, Op. 34
(Recorded 1958, England)

GEORGES ENESCO
Suite for Piano, Op. 10
(Recorded 1958, England)

FREDERIC CHOPIN
[9] Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53, "Heroic"(Recorded 1959, England)

Total playing Time: 71:51

Price: $13.50

UNRIVALED!

Cembal d'amour DVD 123
Extremely rare film and video footage with sound

Featuring some of the greatest musicians in history. Featured in order of appearance:

Emanuel Feuermann, Cellist
Popper: Spinning Song Dvorák: Rondo Op. 94, in G minor,with Theodore Saidenberg, Piano, 1941

Josef Hofmann, Pianist
Beethoven: Concerto in E-flat Major, “Emperor” Third Movement, Rondo-Allegro ma non troppo, (abbreviated) Donald Voorhees Conductor The Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra
Rachmaninoff: Prelude Op. 3, No. 2, in C-sharp minor, 1945

Mindru Katz, Pianist
Beethoven: Sonata Op. 27, No. 2, in C-sharp minor, “Moonlight” 1. Adagio sostenuto 2. Allegretto 3. Presto Chopin: Etude Op. 10, No. 3, in E Major, 1978

Felix Weingartner, Conductor
Weber: Der Freichütz Overture Paris Symphony Orchestra, 1932

Bruno Walter, Conductor
Weber: Oberon Overture Berlin Philharmonic, 1931

Marian Anderson, Contralto Sings the spiritual: “I Hope I’ll Join the Band” (segment) with Franz Rupp, Piano, 1943

Art Tatum, Pianist
Grimes & Hayes “Tiny’s Exercise” (segment), 1943

George Gershwin, Composer/Pianist
“I Got Rhythm” (segment), 1931 Total playing Time: 58:25, Format: 4:3, NTSC Regions: All Regions,

Rating: Exempt from rating DVD Video.

Price: $24.95