Hall Jeffrey <[log in to unmask]>

>Dear CM fans, A few months back, the Gramophone publication International
>Piano Quarterly surveyed the many recordings of Balakirev's super-virtuoso
>piano piece Islamey, Oriental Fantasy.  Does anyone know which recordings
>were selected?

   International Piano Quarterly/Summer 1998
   Balakirev's Islamey on record by Bryce Morrison

   "But of those commercially available...  the finest surely by Julius
   Katchen, Boris Berezovsky and Gyorgy Czifra [EMI]." There is a complete
   commercial disography in which the recommendations are highlighted and
   they are:

   Berezovshy   Teldec 4509-96516-2         1994
   Cziffra      EMI CZS7 67366-2            1957
   Cziffra      Russian Recital Productions IRCP9607
   Gilels       Bianco e Nero 2434
   Katchen      Decca 425 961-2DEM

Dave Hardman <[log in to unmask]>
Canberra, Australia