[LP] Chopin PC1 - Kilenyi 1950 recording - Remington

Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1, OP. 11
Piano solo: Edward Kilenyi (1910 - 2000)
Conductor: Felix Prohaska (1912 - 1987)
Orch.: Austrian Symphony Orchestra
Recording on 1950
Record First Issued on 1952
Record by: Remington
Catalog number: RLP 199-44 (M33-302 / 303)
Matrix number: E1 - LKC - 3932 - 1H / 3933 - 1AR
Topics: LP, 12" Mono
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Movement:
1) I. Allegro maestoso (00:00)
2) II. Larghetto, Romanze (20:28)
3) III. Rondo Vivace Romanze (30:46)

About Remington Records
This Remington LP was recorded in 1950 and released in 1952 as a first edition. The early all-red LP labels continued the design from the 78 rpm era. The record was reissued three times over the next five years, with changes to both the cover and label. To now, no CD release has been observed. Remington was an American record company active from the late 1940s to the early 1950s, founded in 1941 by Hungarian immigrant Don Gabor. After establishing another pressing plant in Canada in 1948, he also released records under the Continental label. Initially releasing 78 rpm records, the label began producing 33 rpm LPs in the 1950s. Its roster of musicians included Georges Enesco, Ernst Von Dohnanyi, Jorge Bolet, Michele Auclair, Jörg Demus, Ossy Renardy, Albert Spalding, Ivry Gitlis, Fritz Busch, Walter Schneiderhan, Alfred Kirchin, and others.

About the Pianist:
At age three, Edward Kilényi could play melodies composed by his father on the piano. At eleven, he performed for Ernst Von Dohnányi, who advised the boy to study with him at the Liszt Academy in Budapest. This marked the beginning of their lifelong friendship. In 1928, Dohnányi took his young pupil on tour. In 1935, invited by Beecham, he toured Britain with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1. His London success earned him invitations from many top orchestras, collaborating with conductors including Klemperer, Mitropoulos, Ormandy, Barbirolli, Pare, Menuhin, Henry Wood, Mengelberg, and Muck.
During World War II, Kilenyi enlisted in the U.S. Army and in 1945 became the Music Control Officer for the U.S. Military Government in Bavaria. He arranged for Solti to conduct Beethoven's Fidelio at the Bavarian State Opera and used his official position to locate Dohnanyi, securing him a faculty position at the University of Florida School of Music. Four years later, Kilenyi joined the same institution as a piano professor, dedicating the latter part of his life to teaching and concert performances. In 1986, he was awarded the Liszt Centennial Medal by the Hungarian government.
In 1937, Kilenyi won the Grand Prix du Disque in 1938. Among his most popular recordings was the 1948 two-piano Waltz Suite with composer Dohnanyi.
During the LP era, Kilenyi produced eleven vinyl records for the American Remington label. For CDs, APR released a two-disc set of his 1937–1939 Decca recordings, while Pearl produced an excellent single-disc set of his American Columbia recordings featuring Dohnanyi's Waltz Suite and Schumann's Symphonic Etudes.

About the Conductor
Felix Prohaska is an Austrian conductor and professor of musicology at the Hanover University of Music.
Prohaska born in Vienna, he received early musical instruction from his composer father. He later studied piano with Steuermann and music theory with Kornauth and Gál.
Prohaska began his career as rehearsal conductor at the Graz Opera (1936-1939), subsequently serving as conductor at the Duisburg Opera (1939-1941) and Strasbourg (1941-1943). He later held positions at the Prague, Salzburg, and Vienna Volksoper (1946-1955, 1964-1967), Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt (1955-1961), and Staatsoper Hannover (1965-1974). From 1961 to 1969, he served as Director of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. Prochaska passed away in Vienna in 1987. Vanguard Records released his recordings of works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, and Mahler.


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