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Piano Board => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: michael_sayers on May 31, 2015, 06:09:35 PM

Title: audio of Ervin Nyiregyhazi playing J.S. Bach in 1946
Post by: michael_sayers on May 31, 2015, 06:09:35 PM

Hi Everyone,

To show that Ervin Nyiregyhazi at one time could play with note accuracy and without slipshod rhythms, here is his playing of Brahms' left hand arrangement of the J.S. Bach Chaconne as heard in the 1946 movie The Beast With Five Fingers.

https://www.fugue.us/Beast_Five_1.mp3

https://www.fugue.us/Beast_Five_2.mp3

https://www.fugue.us/Beast_Five%203.mp3

Also there is some of Liszt's Rhapsodie Espagnole and Mephisto Waltz No. 1 from 1944:

https://www.fugue.us/Soul_of_monster.mp3

And this is a 1936 promotional L.P. for the Federal Music Project:

https://www.fugue.us/Dawn.mp3


Mvh,
Michael

Title: Re: audio of Ervin Nyiregyhazi playing J.S. Bach in 1946
Post by: furiouzpianist on May 31, 2015, 07:31:53 PM

Yes... There existed a live radio recording from 1936 of him playing the Liszt 1st concerto.
Also, there was a tape from the 1960's of the Liszt Sonata, but apparently it's now lost. Same goes for his 1940's rec of the Liszt J'eau D'eau

Title: Re: audio of Ervin Nyiregyhazi playing J.S. Bach in 1946
Post by: michael_sayers on May 31, 2015, 08:13:14 PM

Quote from: furiouzpianist on May 31, 2015, 07:31:53 PM

Yes... There existed a live radio recording from 1936 of him playing the Liszt 1st concerto.
Also, there was a tape from the 1960's of the Liszt Sonata, but apparently it's now lost. Same goes for his 1940's rec of the Liszt J'eau D'eau

Hi Furiouzpianist,

There is a recording of him playing part of the Liszt Sonata for a television broadcast in the 1970s.  And there is an audio only recording of him playing the Grieg Piano Concerto, the Chopin Black Key Etude - and other things - in a California University film archive.


Mvh,
Michael