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