EGON PETRI PLAYS CONCERTI

Egon Petri plays concerti in these rare recordings.  Although there are only a handful of examples, it is enough to make one wish for more of his performances from the 1930s with conductors of the stature of Hans Robaud and Dmitri Mitropoulos and the orchestras with which they are represented here.  What wouldn't I give for a Mozart concerto, the Liszt E♭ major, or the Schumann and Grieg, or one of the the Brahms concerti?

And what about Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovitch, just to name a few?  In all of the recordings I have heard, and there are many, I have never heard him play the music of any composer after Medtner.  It is as though his dedication to the works and philosophy of Busoni very nearly marks the historical boundary of his musical taste.  A pity, because in many respects Busoni was indeed one of the doorways to modernity in music. 

His brilliant technical ability demands that Egon Petri plays concerti include the great concerted works created during his lifetime.

Bach-Busoni  Keyboard Concerto in D minor
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