Here is a most unexpected edition, which seems to indicate that we are really hitting the “bottom of the barrel” of certain catalogues. The pianist Carl Seemann (1910-1983) was never a great international soloist. Pianist, pedagogue and director of the Freiburg Conservatory, he was, in a Germany where Kempff, Fischer, Backhaus and Schnabel were the priests of Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms, the pianist who, on the one hand, notably defended Bach and Mozart (Fischer was also a great Mozartian) and, on the other hand, the partner of the most famous Germanic violinist, the Austrian Wolfgang Schneiderhan. Ten of the 25 CDs are violin and piano duets. We discover in Bach (Party No. 1), Brahms (Op.116), Mozart (Sonatas) a sum of musical intelligence that it was really relevant to republish, just like, a few years ago, the documents allowing us to rediscover the violinist Gerhard Taschner (1922-1976). These 1950s monophonic recordings for piano archivists are not useless and contain some CDs of music from the XXe century. (25 CDs + 1 Blu-ray)
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