Richard Pennycuick wrote:

>Over the last week I've been listening to a lot of Walter Klien playing
>sonatas by Mozart and Schubert.  As a number of other listers have
>observed, they're enormously satisfying.  I'm mystified that such a
>fabulous pianist has, apparently, recorded comparatively little, or
>perhaps it's just that some of his recordings haven't made it to CD.

My favorite Klien recordings were his excellent VoxBox set of Brahms
complete piano solos.  He did some Brahms and other four-hand piano work
with his wife, Beatriz and I wrote several times to the different owners
of Vox pleading with them to re-release all of it.

Recently, I happened to find (on Carlton Classics, with the Turnabout
lable on the front) a used cd of the Kliens playing this super collection
of four-hand music:  Milhaud Scaramouche, Chabrier Three Waltzes, Cortege
Burlesque, and Souvenirs de Munich (Rena Kyriakou instead of Beatriz
Klien), Faure Dolly Suite, Ravel Mother Goose, and the Sixteen Waltzes, op.
39 of Brahms.  I am very happy with it.  I hope you can find it somewhere.
It was not expensive.  Total time, 78'19".

Mimi Ezust <[log in to unmask]>