Ignaz Friedman plays Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.2

Ignaz Friedman playing Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in a recording produced for the Columbia label on December 16, 1931 at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London.

This unprocessed, unfiltered transfer comes from Volume 1 of the series devoted to Friedman on the St Laurent Studios label, which aims to maintain the full-frequency sound profile of the original discs. Their Friedman series can be found here, available as both CDs and downloads:

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Friedman was an exceptionally individual artist whose pianism was characterized by a full-bodied sonority, rhythmic freedom, soaring phrasing, and imaginative voicing. He produced about five hours of recordings, his recordings of a dozen Chopin Mazurkas and nine of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words being particularly notable, and all of his preserved performances are worth exploring. The present performance is a case in point, with a magnificent array of tonal colours, phenomenal voicing, and impeccable timing that highlights the folkloric roots of the work.



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