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A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 217
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Shehori Plays Chopin, Vol. 9
The Complete Nocturnes, Part 2
8 Nocturnes composed between 1838-1846 presented in chronological order of composition dates. & 3 Impromptus composed between 1837-1843
(Opuses 29, 36 & 51)

Total playing time: 77:33

Price: $16.00


A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 214
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori

Mordecai Shehori Plays
Ludwig van Beethoven, Vol. 10
The Young Beethoven, Presenting Works Composed at Ages 13 &14 (1783-4)

Rondo in C Major, WoO48 (1783)

Rondo in A Major, WoO49 (1783)

Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat Major, WoO47 (1783)

Sonata No. 2 in F Minor, WoO47 (1783)

Sonata No. 3 in D Major, WoO47(1783)

* Concerto in E-Flat Major, WoO4 ( 1784)

*World Premier Recording of the Authentic Piano Solo Version.

Total playing time: 77:36

Price: $16.00

A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 208
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Shehori Plays Encores, Vol. 1

Mordecai Shehori Plays Encores, Vol. 1

Anonymous
1. Romance in E Major
(Piano transcription by Mordecai Shehori)

Grigoras Dinicu
2. Hora Staccato
(Piano transcription by Jascha Heifetz)

Gabriel Fauré
3. Après un rêve
(Piano transcription by Mordecai Shehori)

Charles Gounod
4. Meditation (after Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C Major)

Moritz Rosenthal
5. Etude after Frédéric Chopin's Waltz in D-Flat Major, Op. 64, No.1 “Minute Waltz”  

Alexander Scriabin
6. Etude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 2, No. 1

Paul de Schlözer
7. Etude in A-Flat Major, Op. 1, No. 2

Mischa Levitzki
8. Arabesque valsante in A Minor, Op. 6

Leopold Godowsky
9. Alt Wien in G-Flat Major

Carl Tausig
10. Spanish Romance - Der Contrabandista, (The Smuggler) After Robert Schumann

Leopold Godowsky
11. The Swan (After Camille Saint-Saëns)

Christian Sinding
12. Rustle of Spring in D-Flat Major,
Op. 32, No. 3

Enrique Granados
13. The Maiden and the Nightingale
(From Goyescas, No. 4)

Anton Rubinstein
14. Melody in F, Op. 3, No.1

Johannes Brahms
15. Hungarian Dance No. 2 in D Minor, Op. Wo01

Moritz Moszkowski
16 Étincelles in B-Flat Major, Op. 36, No. 6

17 Etude in A-Flat Major, Op. 72, No.11
(From 15 Études de virtuosité)

Aram Khachaturian
18. Dance No. 1 in A Minor from “Masquerade”

Total playing time: 69:34

Price: $16.00




Cembal d'amour, CD 194
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori Plays Thalberg

Shehori Plays Thalberg

L'Art du chant appliqué au piano
(The Art of Singing Applied to the Piano) Op. 70
(Complete, including all 26 Transcriptions)

1. Vincenzo Bellini: I puritani: A te, o cara, amor talora. Op. 70, No. 1

2. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Tre giorni son che Nina. Op. 70, No. 2

3. Ludwig van Beethoven: Adelaïde: Einsam wandelt dein Freund im Frühlingsgarten. Op. 70, No. 3

4. Allesandro Stradella: Air d'église: Pietà, Signore, di me dolente! Op. 70, No. 4

5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem, K. 626: Lacrimosa: Lacrimosa dies illa, Qua resurget ex favilla. Op. 70, No. 5A

6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492: Sull’aria Che soave zeffiretto.
Op. 70, No. 5B

7. Gioachino Rossini: Zelmira: Perchè mi guardi e piangi. Op. 70, No. 6

8. Saverio Mercadante: Il giuramento; Romance: Bella adorata incognita. Op. 70, No. 7

9. Giacomo Meyerbeer: Il crociato in Egitto: Coro dei Congiurati: Nel silenzio, fra l'orror.
Op. 70, No. 8

10. Carl Maria von Weber: Preciosa: Einsam bin ich nicht alleine. Op. 70, No. 9

11. Franz Schubert: Der Müller und der Bach: Wo ein treues Herze in Liebe vergeht.
Op. 70, No. 10

12. Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, Op. 77: Duett: Schelm, Halt fest! Ich will dich’s lehren! Op. 70, No. 11

13. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, Op. 527: Il mio tesoro intanto. Op. 70, No. 12

Disc 2

14. Gioachino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Sérénade: Se il mio nome saper voi bramate. Op. 70, No. 13

15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K. 620: Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen.
Op. 70, No. 14

16. Gaetano Donizetti: Gianni di Calais: Barcarolle: Una barchetta il mar solcando va. Op. 70, No. 15

17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527: Trio de Masques: Protegga il giusto cielo il zelo del mio cor. Op. 70, No. 16A

18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527: Duetto: La ci darem la mano.
Op. 70, No. 16B

19. André Grétry: L'amant jaloux: Sérénade: Tandis que tout sommeille. Op. 70, No. 17

20. Gioachino Rossini: Otello: Romance du Saule: Assisa à piè d’un salice. Op. 70, No. 18

21. Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, Cavatina: Casta diva, che inargenti, Queste sacre antiche piante. Op. 70, No. 19

22. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze de Figaro, K. 492: Voi che sapete che cosa e amor. Op. 70, No. 20

23. Carl Maria von Weber: Euryanthe: Quatuor: Fröhliche Klänge, Tänze, Gesänge Feiern, verschönen. Op. 70, No. 21

24. Traditional: Dafydd y garrey wen (David of the White Rock): Bring me my harp, was David’s sad sigh, I would play one more tune before I die. Op. 70, No. 21

25. Joseph Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten, Hob. XXI:3, Der Winter: Ein Mädchen,das auf Ehre hielt, liebt’ einst ein Edelman. Op. 70, No. 23

26. Traditional: Fenesta vascia, Canzone Napoletana : Fenesta vascia e padrona crudele. Op. 70, No. 24

First Publication: 1853 – Paris: Heugel

Total playing time: CD 1, 67:07 CD 2, 53:01

Price: $13.50


Cembal d'amour, CD 175
Mindru Katz, Piano

Mindru Katz, Piano

Mindru Katz Plays Beethoven and Brahms, Vol. 1

Scintillating and towering performances of two great master works of the piano repertoire.

BEETHOVEN: Sonata in C Major, Op. 2, No. 3 (1795)
(Recorded live: 20 April, 1971)

BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 (1858)
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Josef Krips, Conductor
(Recorded live: 8 July, 1964)

Total playing time: 76:55

Price: $13.50


Cembal d'amour, CD 150
Bidú Sayão, Lyric Soprano

Bidu Sayao, Lyric  Soprano

Hommage à BIDÚ SAYÃO
Vol. 3


MOZART:  The duet “Lá ci darem la mano” (Give Me Thy Hand)
From the opera Don Giovanni. With Giuseppe Valdengo, Baritone (2/26/1951)
VERDI: The duet “Tutte le feste al tempio” (On the blessed days)
from the opera Rigoletto. With Giuseppe Valdengo, Baritone (2/26/1951)
VERDI: “Addio del passato” (Farewell past) from La Traviata (10/31/1949)
PUCCINI: “Un bel di, vedremo” (One good day, we will see) from the opera Madama Butterfly (11/17/1952)
THOMAS: “Connais-tu le pays” (Do You Know the Land) from the opera Mignon (6/1/1953)
CHOPIN: “Tristesse” (Sadness) Arrangement by Marx of the Etude in E Major, Op. 10, No. 3
((6/7/1954)
CHOPIN: “Volla Farfalletta” (Little Butterfly) Arrangement by Sandoval of the Etude in G-flat Major, Op. 25, No. 9 (4/20/1946)
HAHN: “Si mes vers avaient des ailes” (If My Songs Had Wings) (5/23/1949)
FRENCH TRADITIONAL: “Maman, dites moi” (Mother, Please Explain) (Arrangement by Weckerlin)
(6/1/1953)
FONTENAILLES: “Obstination” (Steadfast) (3/24/1952)
MARX: “Senhorinha Brasiliera” (A Brazilian Lady) (3/24/1952)
VILLA-LOBOS: Selections from the “Forest of the Amazon” (1957)
“Cair da Tarde” (Twilight Song)
“Veleiros” (Sails)
“Tarde Azul” (Blue Dusk)
“Os Indios á Procura del Moç” (Indians in Search of a Girl)
“Canção de Amor” (Love Song)
LONGAS: “El Piropo” (The Amorous Compliment) (1/3/1948)
SANDOVAL: “Mi Ranchito” (My Little Ranch) (6/1/1953)
SANDOVAL: “Eres tú” (You are) (9/17/1951)
OBRADORS: “Del Cabello Más Sutil” (Of the Softest Hair) (4/20/1946)
BRAGA: Engenho Novo (The New Engine) (6/7/1954)
SALTA: “Till the Sandman Comes” (6/1/1953)
YOUNG: “Mountain Girl’s Lament” (1/2/1948)
BLAND: “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” (5/23/1949)
LEHÁR: “I Love You So” from the operetta “The Merry Widow” (6/7/1954) 

Total Playing Time: 64:46

Price: $13.50



Cembal d'amour, CD 149
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori Plays Bach-Busoni

Mordecai Shehori Plays Bach-Busoni

Only the second recording ever on one CD of the complete Ten Chorale Preludes by J.S. Bach as arranged by Busoni for piano together with the celebrated Chaconne in D Minor and the mighty Toccata in C Major.

Johann Sebastian Bach- Ferruccio Busoni
Ten Chorale-Preludes
After the original organ works by J. S. Bach “transcribed for piano in chamber style” 1907-09. Dedicated to Mr. Jose Vianna da Motta

 1.  “Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist”
(Come, God Creator)(BWV 667,
ca. 1708-17)                                                  
2.  “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme”
(Awake, the Voice commands)       
(BWV 645, from the cantata BWV 140,
ca. 1731)                                  
3.  “Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland”
(Now comes the gentiles’ Savior)(BWV 659,
ca. 1708-17)                                                  
4.  “Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein” (Rejoice, beloved Christians)
(BWV 734a, ca. 1708-17)                                                 
5.  “Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ” (I call on Thee, Lord Jesus Christ)
(BWV 639, from Das Orgelbüchlein,
Part III, 1713-17)             
6.  “Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf”
(Lord God, now open heaven’s gate)(BWV 617, from Das Orgelbüchlein, Part III, 1713-17)    
7. “Durch Adam Fall ist ganz verderbt”
(All is lost through Adam’s fall)  (First version) (BWV 637, from Das Orgelbüchlein, Part III, 1713-17)
8.  “Durch Adam Fall ist ganz verderbt”
(
All is lost through Adam’s fall) 
(Second version)(BWV 705)                                     
9.  “In dir ist Freude” (In You is joy)
(BWV 615, from Das Orgelbüchlein, Part III,
1713-17)             
10.  “Jesus Christus, unser Heiland” (Jesus Christ, Our Savior) (BWV 665,
ca. 1798-9)                                                    
11.  Chaconne in D Minor (From the second violin partita, BWV 1004)      
Organ Toccata in C Major (BWV 564)
12.  Preludio, quasi improvvisando                                            
13.  Intermezzo, adagio- il soprano con intimo e sempre cantando   
14.  Fuga, Moderatamente scherzando, un poco umoristico             

Total Playing Time: 64:46

Price: $13.50



Cembal d'amour, CD 151

David Nadien, Violin

David Nadien, Vioiin

With: RUGGIERO RICCI, VIOLIN (tracks 10-13)
DAVID HANCOCK, PIANO (tracks 1-8)
ABBA BOGIN, PIANO (track 9)

Destined to become a collectors’ sought after  recording, the legendary violinist David Nadien in the long out-of print and never available before on CD studio recordings as well as a live recording of the Rachmaninoff-Heifetz “Daises”  together with an historically significant collaboration with the  great violinist Ruggiero Ricci in the Porkofieff Sonata for two violins.

CÉSAR FRANCK: Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Major
Dedicated to Eugène Ysaye
(Recorded 1968, New York)

CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Sonata for Violin and Piano
(Recorded 1968, New York)

GABRIEL FAURÉ: Berceuse                                
(Recorded 1968, New York)

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF: Daisies
(Transcription by Jascha Heifetz)
(Recorded live 1970, Mohawk Trails, MA)

SERGEI PROKOFIEFF: Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 56
(Recorded 1970, New York)

Total playing time: 54:51

Price: $13.50



Cembal d'amour, CD 155
Shura Cherkassky, Piano

Shura Cherkassky, Piano

Never-before-available live recordings of Rachmaninoff Concertos No. 2 & 3.
Arguably the finest renditions of these works and certainly the most technically brilliant, transparent and imaginative interpretations even when compared to famed Horowitz and Rachmaninoff discs.
Until is passing in 1995, Shura Cherkassky was Considered as the last representative of the Golden Age of the Piano. Still today, he commands  a cult following all over the world who admire his superb pianism, imagination and the ability to make well known works sound fresh and delightful.
Cherkassky had a distinguish lineage leading all the way to Liszt via his disciple Anton Rubinstein, who was Josef Hofmann’s teacher.
Never standard or dull (as concerts so often are these days) Shura Cherkassky’s performances were musical happenings of superb workmanship, inspiration, quirky sense of humor and pyrotechnics. 

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Sergiu Comissiona, Conductor
(Recorded live 9 February, 1970, Gothenburg, Sweden

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Piano Concerto No. 3  in D Minor, Op. 30
The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Sten Frykberg, Conductor
(Recorded live 3 March, 1968, Gothenburg, Sweden)

Total playing time: 76:44

Price: $13.50



Cembal d'amour, CD 153
Bidú Sayão, Lyric Soprano

Bidu Sayao, Lyric Soprano

Hommage à BIDÚ SAYÃO
Vol. 4

The Unrivaled Lyric Soprano in Never-Before-Published and Rare Live Radio Performances, and Long Out-of-Print Studio Recordings.

Considered by many music and opera lovers as one of the greatest lyric sopranos of all times, Bidú Sayão had a legendary career which was launched by Arturo Toscanini after hearing  her in Milan in Traviata, Maestro engaged her for her U.S. concert debut with him and  the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall in 1936. From 1937-1952 she was the star of the Metropolitan Opera and the San Francisco Opera, loved and acclaimed by audiences and critics alike.

Donald Voorhees conducts the Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra
Tracks:1, 3-6, 11, 15, 17-20
Orchestra conducted by Wilfred Pelletier
Tracks: 2, 12-14, 16
With  Milne Chernley, Piano
Tracks: 7-10

 1. PUCCINI: Musetta’s Waltz from the opera La Bohème
(9/8/1947)
2. VERDI: Caro Nome (Dearest Name) from the opera Rigoletto
(1938) LP
3. LEONCAVALLO: Ballatella from the opera I Pagliacci
(9/6/1948)
4. GOUNOD: Le roi de Thule & Air des Bijous (The King of Thul & Jewel Song)
from the Opera Faust
(6/9/1947)
5. MASSENET: Adieu notre petit Table (Goodbye our little Table)  from the opera Manon
(6/7/1954)
6. MASSENET: Gavotte from the opera Manon
(10/31/1949)
7. AUBER: L’éclat de rire (Laughing Aria)  from the opera Manon Lescaut
(1938)
8. BARROSO: Para Ninar (Lullaby)
(1939)
9. CAMPRA: Chanson de Papillon (Song of the Butterfly) (1939)
10. BUZZI-PECCIA: La Bella Colombetta- Serenata Veneziana
(1939)
11. TURINA: CANTARES (Songs) 
(9/11/1950)
12. COSTA: Canto da Saudade (Song of Longing)
(1940)
13. COSTA-SALUSSE: Cysnes (Swans)
(1938)
14. LONGAS: Lavandera (The Laundress)
(1938)
15. DUKE: The Bird
(9/8/1947)
16. CAREY: A Spring Morning
(1938)
17. DOUGHERTY: Sonatina (A comical work portraying an reluctant and not quite advance young piano student) (9/6/1948)
18. DOUGHERTY: The Children’s Letter
(10/31/1949)
19. SEAVER: Just for Today
(9/17/1951)
20. ROMBERG: New Moon, Lover, Come Back to Me
(6/1/1953)

Total playing time: 72:11

Price: $13.50

 



Cembal d'amour, CD 159
Emanuel Vardi, Viola, Violin

Emanuel Vardi, Viola, Violin

Emanuel Vardi, Viola/Violin
In Memoriam
When Emanuel Vardi passed away in January 2011, the music world lost a remarkable musician and a unique human being.  Very few, if any, can compare with his remarkable achievements as one of the greatest violists within memory, as well as his excellence as a violinist, conductor, and composer.  The program includes rare long-out-of-print performances and a never-available-before live recording of the Walton Viola Concerto.

ODEON PARTOS: Yizkor            
(In Memoriam)
Emanuel Vardi, Viola
MGM String Orchestra conducted by Isler Solomon
(Recorded 1957)

PAUL HINDEMITH: Trauermusik
(Music of Mourning)
Emanuel Vardi, Viola                             
MGM String Orchestra conducted by Isler Solomon
(Recorded 1957)

MICHAEL COLGRASS: Variations for Four Drums and Viola
Emanuel Vardi, Viola
Michael Colgrass, Percussion
(Recorded 1959)

TIBOR SERLY: Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra with Percussion  
Emanuel Vardi, Violin
The Vienna Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Tibor Serly
(Recorded 1976)

WILLIAM WALTON: Concerto for              Viola and Orchestra
Emanuel Vardi, Viola
American Broadcasting Symphony conducted by Joseph Stopak
(Recorded 1943)

Total playing time: 75:02

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 161
David Nadien, Violin

David Nadien, Violin

The Legendary Violinist David Nadien in Live and Never-Before-Available Exceptional Performances!

With:
Barry Finclair, Violin/Viola (tracks 1-6 and 8)
Jonathan Feldman, Piano (tracks 7 and 8)
American Ballet Theater Orchestra
conducted by Akiro Endo (track 9)

Tracks 1-8 Recorded April 17, 1977, L’Ensemble, New York.
Track 9 Recorded July 10, 1974, for the Ballet
“Le Jardin aux Lilacs,” New York.

1. Handel-Halvorsen: Passacaglia for Violin and Viola in G Minor                    
2-6. Mozart: Duo for Violin and Viola  in B-flat Major,  K. 424                                                                    
7. Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
in A Minor, Op. 28                                              

8.  Sarasate: Navarra for Two Violins, Op. 33                

9.  Chausson: Poem for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 25  

Total playing time: 53:58

Price: $13.50


Cembal d'amour, CD 163
Mindru Katz, Piano

Mindru Katz, Piano

The Most Musically Satisfying and Pianistically Astonishing Performances of These Concertos within Memory.

MINDRU KATZ, PIANO
(1925-1978)

With the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Gary Bertini (1927-2005)
(Tracks 1-3, recorded: Jerusalem, 1/7/1977)
With the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Mendi Rodan (1929-2009)
(Tracks 4-6, recorded: Jerusalem, 1/13/1970)

MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466         
(Cadenzas by Beethoven)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Cadenzas by Beethoven)

Total Playing Time: 69:24

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 166
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori, Piano CD 166

The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 6

The Cd contains extremely rare live performances of Vladimir Horowitz’s original compositions including a first ever live performance (1993)  of  his Etude-Caprice “Les Vagues” (The Waves), As well as seldom played works by Czerny and Debussy.

“Shehori gave a large audience the opportunity to hear some unusually thoughtful and thought-provoking playing.”
The New York Times

Program

1. CZERNY: Variations on a Theme by Rode,
Op. 33, in E-flat Major, “La Ricordanza”   

MENDELSSOHN: 3 Songs without Words
2.  Op. 38, No. 2 in C Minor                         
3.  Op. 53, No. 3 in G Minor                        
4.  Op. 67, No. 2 in F-sharp Minor             

BRAHMS: 4 Piano Works Op. 119
5.  Intermezzo in B Minor                             
6.  Intermezzo in E Minor                              
7.  Intermezzo in C Major                             
8.  Rhapsodie in E-flat Major                       

9.  DEBUSSY: Valse Romantique in F Minor  

     VLADIMIR HOROWITZ: 3 Works
10. Etude-Caprice “Les Vagues” (The Waves)   
11. Waltz in F Minor                                     
12. Dance Excentrique in C Major                     

1.3 RAVEL: La Valse (Poéme chorégraphique)

     Encores:
14.  J. S. BACH-SHEHORI: Sicilienne in
G Minor (from the Flute Sonata No. 2)       

15.  DAQUIN: Le Coucou       

16.  PROKOFIEV: Prelude Op. 12, No. 7,
in C Major                           

17.  CONFREY: Humorestless
(After Dvorák)                     

Recording information:
Tracks:  1, 13, 15, Merkin Concert Hall*
4/20/1983.  Tracks: 2-4, 10, 16, 17, Weill
Recital Hall, 2/6/1993.  Tracks: 5-8, 9, 11, 12,
14, Alice Tully Hall* 6/14/2003.

Total playing time: 66:05

Price: $13.50


Cembal d'amour, CD 167
Mindru Katz, Piano

Cd 167 Mindru Latz, Piano

Never-Before-Published Live Recordings of the Legendary Pianist Mindru Katz

MARCELLO—J.S. BACH: Adagio from Marcello’s Oboe Concerto in D Minor         
(Recorded 4 November 1974, Tel-Aviv, Israel)

CHOPIN: 24 Preludes Op. 28
(Recorded 4 November 1974, Tel-Aviv, Israel)

KABALEVSKY: 3 Preludes from Op. 38
Prelude No. 8 in F-sharp Minor       
Prelude No. 6 in B Minor                 
Prelude No. 14 in E-flat Minor        
 (Recorded 4 November 1974, Tel-Aviv, Israel)

“Mindru Katz, a pianist of unbounded strength, vitality, and assurance. It was supremely musical and poetic playing as well as a great technical tour de force.”
The Times, London

“Mindru Katz Reveals his Genius”
“A musician literally to his finger tips, Mr. Katz is an exception even in a world teeming with pianists of high repute.”
Yorkshire Post

Total playing time: 51:34

Price: $13.50

 



   

Cembal d'amour, CD 168
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Shehori Plays Schubert

Shehori Plays Schubert, Vol. 1

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828)

Four Impromptus Op. posth. 142
Deutsch-Verz. 935 (1827)

1. No. 1 in F Minor                              
2. No. 2 in A-flat Major                             
3. No. 3 in B-flat Major                            
4. No. 4 in F Minor                                
 
Recorded 2 June, 1997, New York

Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. posth.
Deutsch-Verz. 960 (1828)
5. Molto moderato                                  
6. Andante sostenuto                                
7. Scherzo-Allegro vivace con delicatezza    
8. Allegro, ma non troppo                      

Recorded 5 June, 1997, New York

Total playing time: 75:06

Price: $13.50


Cembal d'amour, CD 178
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Shehori Plays Bach Vol 3

Mordecai Shehori Plays Bach, Vol. 3

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2.
Preludes & Fugues 1-12

"Few pianists have devoted themselves to the mastery of touches in the quest for clean, unmannered articulation as Shehori, and I recommend a close study of his Fugue in A Major, BWV 864 as an example. The supple elements of the line resolve en route with natural landings, as gratifying as the stretti that precede the final cadence. If another analogy will suffice besides an organ composition, consider the writing in the expansive A Minor Fugue, BWV 865 as an animated vocal motet, with leading baritone lines. The sudden transition to the B-flat Major Prelude, BWV 866 could not be more dramatic, with its toccata elements and singing and declamatory flourishes, almost a study for the BWV 903 Chromatic Fantasy. Once more, as a modern example of scholarship-become-high art, this fusion of Gnostic musical spirits demands our appreciation and aesthetic acknowledgement."

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Total playing time: 67:41

Price: $13.50

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Cembal d'amour, CD 216
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Shehori Plays Chopin Vol 8

Shehori Plays Chopin, Vol. 8
The Complete Nocturnes, Part 1
13 Nocturnes composed between the years 1827 and 1837 Presented in Chronological order dates of composition.

Total playing time: 72:05

Price: $16.00


A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 207
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 14 (Recorded live at Alice Tully Hall, New York. Tracks 1-5 & 7, 2 June, 2001, Track 6, 2 May, 2002)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Rondo in A Minor, KV 511
Rondo in D Major, KV 485

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata”

Franz Liszt
The “Gretchen” movement from Faust Symphony (Piano transcription by Franz Liszt)

Franz Liszt
Réminiscences de Don Juan (After Mozart's Opera Don Giovanni)

Price: $16.00

Cembal d'amour, CD 192
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Shehori Plays Liszt

Shehori Plays Liszt, Vol. 4

Six études d’après Paganini (1851)
1. Preludio-Andante
2. Andante-Andantino capriccioso
3. Allegretto, La campanella
4. Vivo
5. Allegretto, La Chasse
6. Quasi presto

Trois études de concert (1849)
7. Il lamento
8. La leggierezza
9. Un sospiro (With the 1885 cadenza
Liszt composed for his loving
student Lina Schmalhausen)

Deux études de concert (1863)
10. Waldesrauschen
11. Gnomenreigen

12. Ab irato (1852)

Total playing time: 65:03

Price: $13.50




Cembal d'amour, CD 176
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori Plays Bach, Vol. 1

Mordecai Shehori Plays Bach, Vol. 1

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1.
Preludes & Fugues 1-12

Frédéric Chopin's Hand Written Annotations to Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

These performances of J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier were inspired and guided by Frédéric Chopin’s hand written annotations in a teaching score which belonged to his student Pauline Chazaren, as well as by a study of numerous editions and the autograph’s facsimile. My main concept of Bach’s music considers his work within the larger view of the arts, architecture, literature, and religious philosophies of his time. Preparations involve a thorough study of not only the many types of musical instruments that were available to him, but more importantly, his documented relentless pursuit to improve those instruments in areas of tone color, volume, sustain, the ability to overlap tones, and added richness in overtones. It seems that Bach’s pursuits were aimed at realizing an ability to produce a singing line on a keyboard instrument.

Total playing time: 54:01

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 154
Mindru Katz, Piano

The legendary pianist Mindru Katz in never-before-available and stunning live performances of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in A  Major and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor.

“Mindru Katz’s Superb Pianism” (headlines)
“It was an afternoon of superb pianism. Everything he did was admirably controlled, however breath-taking as a feat of virtuosity, with tone that never  lost its mellowness and beauty even when most strained in moments of grandeur and might with outstanding range and quality of keyboard sonority.”
THE TIMES

“One of the most brilliant expositions of the Tchaikovsky B-flat Minor Concerto that I have ever heard, an electrifying performance.”
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

FRANZ LISZT
Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
Harold Byrns, Conductor
(Recorded 1961, Jerusalem, Israel)

PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Sergiu Comissiona, Conductor
(Recorded 10 January, 1969, Gothenburg, Sweden)

Total playing time: 54:53

Price: $13.50



Cembal d'amour, CD 148
Mindru Katz, Piano

Mindru Katz, Piano

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major,
Op. 73, "Emperor"
The Halle Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, Conductor
(Recorded April 1959, Manchester, England)

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH
Prelude in E-flat Minor, Op. 34
(Recorded 1958, England)

GEORGES ENESCO
Suite for Piano, Op. 10
(Recorded 1958, England)

FREDERIC CHOPIN
[9] Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53, "Heroic"(Recorded 1959, England)

Total playing Time: 71:51

Price: $13.50



Cembal d'amour, CD 145
Bidú Sayão, Lyric Soprano

Bidu Sayao

Hommage à BIDÚ SAYÃO
Vol. 2


The Supreme Lyric Soprano in Extremely Rare Live Radio Performances

1. PERGOLESI: Tré giorni son che Nina (18 February, 1946)
2. TRAETTA: Tantin, tantino-Ma che vi costa, signor tutore
(8 May, 1950)
3. ARDITI: Il bacio (1948)
4. ROSSINI: Una voce poco fa from the opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia
(10 April, 1943)
5. ROSSINI: Bel Raggio Lusinghier from the opera Semiramide
(10 April, 1944)
6. VERDI: Ah, fors' é lui...Sempre libera from the opera La Traviata
(30 September, 1946)
7. BIZET: Micaëla’s aria: Je dis que rien ne  m'épouvante from the opera Carmen (6 December, 1948)
8. MASSENET: Voyons, Manon, plus de chimères from the opera Manon (19 June, 1944)
9.  PONCE: Estrellita (8 May, 1950)
10. CRIST: C'est  mon ami (8 September, 1947)
11. MARTINI: Plaisir d’amour (11 September, 1950)
12. FAURÉ: Clair de lune (1 October, 1945)
13. GRIEG: The Last Springtide (1946)
14. DVOŘÁK: Songs My Mother Taught Me (20 July, 1942)
15. TRADITIONAL:  Roving in the Dew (14 September, 1953)
16. SCOTT: Think on Me (30 September, 1946)
17. YOUNG: The Teakettle Song (1946)
18. NILES: Go Away from My Window (11 September, 1950)
19. WATTS: The Poet Sings (1946)
20. COWARD: I’ll Follow My Secret Heart (1947)

Total playing time: 71:27

Price: $13.50

UNRIVALED!

Cembal d'amour DVD 123
Extremely rare film and video footage with sound

Cembal d'amour DVD 123 UNRIVLED! (Front cover) Cembal d'amour DVD 123 UNRIVLED!

Featuring some of the greatest musicians in history. Featured in order of appearance:

Emanuel Feuermann, Cellist

Popper: Spinning Song Dvorák: Rondo Op. 94, in G minor,with Theodore Saidenberg, Piano, 1941

Josef Hofmann, Pianist

Beethoven: Concerto in E-flat Major, “Emperor” Third Movement, Rondo-Allegro ma non troppo, (abbreviated) Donald Voorhees Conductor The Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra
Rachmaninoff: Prelude Op. 3, No. 2, in C-sharp minor, 1945

Mindru Katz, Pianist

Beethoven: Sonata Op. 27, No. 2, in C-sharp minor, “Moonlight” 1. Adagio sostenuto 2. Allegretto 3. Presto Chopin: Etude Op. 10, No. 3, in E Major, 1978

Felix Weingartner, Conductor

Weber: Der Freichütz Overture Paris Symphony Orchestra, 1932

Bruno Walter, Conductor

Weber: Oberon Overture Berlin Philharmonic, 1931

Marian Anderson, Contralto
Sings the spiritual: “I Hope I’ll Join the Band” (segment) with Franz Rupp, Piano, 1943

Art Tatum, Pianist

Grimes & Hayes “Tiny’s Exercise” (segment), 1943

George Gershwin, Composer/Pianist

“I Got Rhythm” (segment), 1931 Total playing Time: 58:25, Format: 4:3, NTSC Regions: All Regions,

Rating: Exempt from rating DVD Video.

Price: $13.50



Cembal d'amour, CD 152

Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori Pianist

An Historically Significant Release!

It took 169 years since its initial publication but it is finally here: the first recording ever of the complete “Methode des Methodes” by Moschelès and Fétis.

Pianist Mordecai Shehori performs the Complete Moschelès and Fétis “Methode des Methodes”  20 Études de Perfectionnement
(Etudes for attaining perfection/refinement/sophistication)

In 1838, the pianist, composer and theorist François-Joseph Fétis (25 March 1784 – 26 March 1871), together with the celebrated pianist, composer, conductor and pedagogue Ignaz Moschelès collaborated on an ingenious project of commissioning twelve renowned pianists/composers of their time: Chopin, Thalberg, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Rosenhain, Döhler, Heller, Wolff, Henselt, Méreaux, Benedict, and Taubert, to create one or two etudes each (Chopin composed three) concentrating on what each one considered the most vital element(s) of refined piano playing.
Fétis wrote an extensive analysis (now lost) of the history and direction of piano technique and esthetics up to their time, and Moschelès arranged the etudes with great mastery according to their moods, texture, and most importantly, tonalities, so that they formed into a single large musical structure.
It resulted in a unique and significant collection named “Method of Methods.”  The title certainly lives up to its claim by opening a rare window into the 19th Century Golden Age of the piano concepts, style and philosophy.  By intense study of these works or even by listening alone, one can get a clear picture of how music was conceived and performed in that era.
This work also allows us to understand with greater depth the three celebrated composers that made it to our times, namely Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn.  We must remember that such greatness could not develop in an artistic vacuum but was in fact a result of fertile exchanges of ideas with the now mostly forgotten other ten composers.

Total playing time: 62:54

Price: $13.50

 


Cembal d'amour, CD 158
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori, Piano

The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 5

CARL MARIA von WEBER: Aufforderung zum Tanze, in D-flat Major, Op. 65   (Invitation to the Dance)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C Minor     
FRANZ SCHUBERT: Impromptu in E-flat Major, Op. 90, No. 2, Impromptu in G-flat Major, Op. 90, No. 3                 
FRÉDÉRICK CHOPIN: Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 35 (Funeral March)
ROBERT SCHUMANN-FRANZ LISZT: Frühlingsnacht (Spring Night)                                     
FRANZ LISZT: Spanish Rhapsody  (Folies d’Espagne et Jota aragonesa)

Total playing time: 70:57

Price: $13.50



Cembal d'amour, CD 160
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Shehori Plays Chopin

Shehori Plays Chopin, Vol. 2

1.  Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23, BI 66 (1835)              
2.  Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38, BI 102 (1836-39)   
3.  Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47, BI 136 (1841)
4.  Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52, BI 146 (1842)      
5.  Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54, BI 148 (1842)    
6.  Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise
Brillante, Op. 22, BI 58/88 (1830-39)                       

Total Playing time: 62:49

Price: $13.50



Cembal d'amour, CD 157
Mindru Katz, Piano

Mindru Katz Plays Schumann

The legendary pianist Mindru Katz in never-before-available and stunning live performances of Robert Schumann’s two master works: Kinderszenen, Op. 15, (Scenes from Childhood) and the mighty C Major Fantasie Op. 17.

“Mindru Katz’s Superb Pianism” (headlines)
“It was an afternoon of superb pianism. Everything he did was admirably controlled, however breath-taking as a feat of virtuosity, with tone that never  lost its mellowness and beauty even when most strained in moments of grandeur and might with outstanding range and quality of keyboard sonority.”
The Times

Total playing time: 56:42

Price: $13.50



Cembal d'amour, CD 156
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori Plays Chopin Waltzes

Mordecai Shehori Plays Chopin, Vol. 1
The 19 Waltzes
Presented for the first time in  Chopin’s original progression and not by the usual and less meaningful
opus numbers.

“Mordecai Shehori is a marvelous pianist in almost every conceivable category. Indeed if elegance had a middle name, it would be Shehori. At last there is a pianist who not only understands the power of gentleness but puts it to work at every opportunity. Though it goes without saying that his technique is impeccable, sometimes more is afoot when he plays, as if he had found a way to harness the storm before the calm.”
American Record Guide

Total playing time: 63:58

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 162
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

  Shehori Plays Liszt VOL 2

Shehori Plays Liszt, Vol. 2
On Nature’s Beauty and Man’s Torment

1.  Impromptu in F-sharp Major                 

2.  Au Bord d’une Source in A-flat Major
(Mr. Shehori plays the extended ending composed
by Liszt in 1863 for his student Giovanni Sgambati)

 3.  Vallée d’Obermann                                 
(From Années de pèlerinage, première annèe: Suisse)

 4.  Les jeux d’eau á la Villa d’Este               
(From Années de pèlerinage, troisième annèe: Italie)

5.  Canzone “Nessùn maggior dolore”                   
(after Rossini’s opera ‘Otello’ from Venezia e Napoli)

6.  Funérailles                                                  
(From Harmonies poétiques et religieuses)

Three Petrarca Sonnets from Années de pèlerinage, 
deuxième annèe: Italie
7.  Sonetto 47                                               
8.  Sonetto 104                                             
9.  Sonetto 123                                             

10. “Faust Waltz” after Gounod

(Recorded February 2009, Las Vegas)              

Total Playing Time: 76:37

“Mr. Shehori, who was born in Israel and studied at the Juilliard School, has developed a cult following in New York piano circles, for good reason. He certainly possesses a suitably big technique — one does not offer the public Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel and Liszt's arrangement of the Polonaise from Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" without reliable fingers. Still, mindless and heartless keyboard fluency is not uncommon nowadays and perhaps never was. What sets Mr. Shehori apart from most virtuosos with their off-the-shelf performances is the poetic inwardness and rapturous intensity of his playing.”
The New York Times

Price: $13.50

 


Cembal d'amour, CD 164
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori Plays Beethoven

Shehori Plays Beethoven, Vol. 1

1. Rondo in G Major, Op. 51, No. 2 (1800)
  (Recorded 28 June, 1996, New York)                     

2-4. Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13, “Grande Sonata Pathétique” (1798/99)
 (Recorded 5 August, 2002, New York)

5-7. Sonata in C Major, Op. 53, “Waldstein” (1803/04)
 (Recorded 13 February, 2009, Las Vegas)

8-10. Sonata in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata” (1804/05)
 (Recorded 10 September, 2001, New York)

Total Playing time: 74:32

“Making a Lost Style Speak to Today’s Ears” (Headlines)
The New York Times

“Shehori, Poetry in Music” (Headlines)
 The Washington Post

“When Shehori at last executes the main theme legato, the gods themselves must give pause and weep.”
Audiophile Edition

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 165
Erick Friedman, Violin
Emanuel Vardi, Viola
Jascha Silberstein, Cello

Beethoven String Trios

Beethoven’s 3 String Trios Opus 9

Trio No. 1 in G Major
Trio No. 2 in D Major
Trio No. 3 in C Minor

Three legendary string players collaborated in a 1977 performance which can be considered the ultimate in playing of great beauty and refinement.

Violinist Erick Friedman was the celebrated Jascha Heifetz student and recorded with his teacher for RCA. Emanuel Vardi was widely regarded as one of the greatest viola players in history and cellist Jascha Silberstein was the first cellist of the Metropolitan Opera for 30 years and had a distinguished solo career as well.

Total playing time: 71:06

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 169
Mindru Katz, Piano

Mindru Katz, Piano CD 169

Never-before-available live recordings by the legendary pianist Mindru Katz in unrivaled performances of Beethoven’s celebrated sonatas:
The "Tempest" and the formidable "Hammerklavier"

LUDWIG  VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2,
“The Tempest” (1802)
 Recorded: 20 April, 1971, Jerusalem, Israel

Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106,
“For the Hammerklavier” (1816-18)
 Recorded: 9 December, 1972, Jerusalem, Israel

Total playing time: 69:50

“I know of no one outside Horowitz who can produce such a thrilling brio, and Katz is a far better Beethoven player than Horowitz.”
Gramophone Record Review

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 170
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Shehori Plays Chopin Etudes

A new recording of the complete Chopin Etudes based on a thorough study of the Stichvorlage (fair copy autographs, located at the Fryderyk Chopin museum in Warsaw)

Studying  Chopin’s Autographs
Although not all the Etudes are actually in Chopin’s hand writing, his ink corrections, and pedal markings are evident in all of them. There are hundreds of disagreements between the facsimiles and even the Urtext edition of Henle and others.  The most frequent errors are found in Henle’s stubbornness in striving for symmetry while Chopin invariably employed asymmetrical patterns by making tiny changes in articulation markings, in varying locations of ritardandos and accelerandos or even the absence of them in repeating passages. Moreover, all editions including Henle are quite careless about the direction of stems that are vital for correct voice leading.

Program

12 Etudes Opus 10 (1829-1832)
12 Etudes Opus 25 (1832-1836)
3 Nouvelles Etudes for the “Méthode des Méthodes” by Moschelès and Fétis (1839)

Total playing time: 67:52

Price: $13.50



Cembal d'amour, CD 171
Mindru Katz, Piano

Mindru Katz, Piano

Never-before-available live recordings by the legendary pianist Mindru Katz in unsurpassed performances of the Schumann and Grieg Piano Concertos.

“Mindru Katz, a pianist of unbounded strength, vitality, and assurance. It was supremely musical and poetic playing as well as a great technical tour de force.”
The Times, London

ROBERT SCHUMANN
Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 54 
The Israel Broadcast Authority Orchestra
 conducted by Mendi Rodan                           
 Recorded: 1963, Jerusalem, Israel

EDVARD GRIEG
Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 16
The Israel Broadcast Authority Orchestra
 conducted by Sergiu Comissiona                               
 Recorded: 1962, Jerusalem, Israel

Total playing time: 61:19

Price: $13.50



Cembal d'amour, CD 172
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori, Piano

The CD highlights including the first recording ever of Khachaturian’s last piano composition: “Vocalise,” created in 1978, the year of his passing, as well as the seldom played and recorded Tchaikovsky’s magnificent sonata in G Major, Op. 37. The  Clementi sonata as well as the Liszt Polonaise from Tchaikovsky’s opera “Eugene Onegin” are also rarities in the recorded repertoire.

“Shehori is rock solid and deeply musical. This is a big-hearted interpretation, with a beautiful variety of tone colour and a sense of empathy with the composer.”
BBC Music Magazine

Program:

1-3. CLEMENTI: Sonata in F-sharp Minor, OP.  26, No. 2
4-7. TCHAIKOVSKY: “Grande Sonate” in G Major, Op. 37
8. KHATCHATURIAN: Vocalise                               
9. LISZT: Paraphrase after Tchaikovsky’s
     Opera “Eugene Onegin”                              

ENCORES:
10. BACH-MARCELLO: Adagio                   
(From the Keyboard Concerto in D Minor)
11. MOSZKOWSKI: Etude in F Major, Op. 72         
12. CHOPIN: Mazurka in G Minor, Op. 24, No. 1    
13. CHOPIN: Polonaise in A-flat Major,  Op. 53, “Heroic”     

Total playing time: 69:02
      
                

Price: $13.50




Cembal d'amour, CD 180
Mindru Katz, Piano

CD 180, Mindru Katz Plays Beethoven & Brahms

Passion & Power: Mindru Katz Plays Beethoven & Brahms, Vol. 2

An Artistically and historically significant live recordings.

BEETHOVEN: Sonata quasi una Fantasia, in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2, "Moonlight"

(Recorded live: 16 June, 1971, Tel-Aviv, Israel)

BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 83

The Jerusalem Symphony
Mandi Rodan, Conductor

(Recorded live: 3 October 1967, Jerusalem, Israel)

Total playing time: 64:09

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 177
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Shehori Plays Bach

Mordecai Shehori Plays Bach, Vol. 2

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1.
Preludes & Fugues 13-24

"Mordecai Shehori finds a new and vocally inspired Bach in the WTC as edited and amended by Chopin, a true fusion of kindred spirits."
Gary Lemco
http://audaud.com/2015/02/bach-the-well-tempered-clavier-book-i-preludes-fugues-1-12-bwv-846-857-mordecai-shehori-p-cembal-damour/

Total playing time: 55:32

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 173
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Dances and Visions

A colorful collection of works that concludes with the rarely played and fantastic 1942 paraphrase of Saint-Saëns/Liszt Danse Macabre by Vladimir Horowitz

1-5. Jean-Baptiste Lully: suite de pièces

6. Claude Debussy: Reflets dans l’eau 
(Reflections in the Water, from Images, Book. 1)

7. Frédéric Chopin:
Bolero in A Minor, Op. 19

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Six Works:

8. Etude-Tableau in A Minor, Op. 39, No. 6
9. Etude-Tableau in D Minor, Op. 39, No. 8
10. Prelude in G Major, Op. 32, No. 5
11. Prelude in C Minor, Op. 23, No. 7
12. “Daisies” in F Major, Op. 38, No. 3
13. Etude-Tableau in D Major, Op. 39, No. 9


14. Camille Saint-Saëns/Franz Liszt/Vladimir Horowitz: Danse Macabre


Total playing time: 63:42

Price: $13.50


A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 215
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori

The celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 16

Ferruccio Busoni:
Organ Toccata in C Major
(After Johann Sebastian Bach) BWV 564
(Alice Tully Hall, 6/4/2003)

Johannes Brahms:
Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118 No. 2
Ballade in G Minor, Op. 118 No. 3
(Merkin Concert Hall, 5/20/1985)

Frédéric Chopin:
Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54
(Alice Tully Hall, 6/4/2003)

Franz Liszt:
Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este, S.163/4
(Alice Tully Hall, 5/25/2004)

Franz Liszt:
Faust Waltz (After the opera “Faust” by Charles Gounod) S. 407
(Alice Tully Hall, 6/4/2003)

Zez Confrey:
Kitten on the Keys
(Alice Tully Hall, 5/25/2004)

Total playing time: 61:55
Price: $16.00

A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 206
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori
Plays Ludwig Van Beethoven, Vol. 5

Six Piano Sonatas Presented in Chronological Order of Composition Dates.

Sonata No. 20 in G Major, Op. 49, No. 2
(1795-6)

Sonata No. 19 in G Minor, Op. 49, No. 1
(1795-8)

Sonata No. 18 in E-Flat Major. Op. 31, No. 3 (1801-2)

Sonata No. 24 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 78 (1809)

Sonata No. 25 in G Major, Op. 79 (1809-10)

Sonata No. 27 in E Minor, Op. 90 (1814)

Total playing time: 77:15

Price: $13.50



A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 205
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori Plays Frédéric Chopin, Vol. 7, Complete Preludes & Fugues.

24 Preludes Op. 28
Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45
Prelude in A-Flat Major, B.86
Fugue in A Minor, B.144

World Premiere Recording:
Luigi Cherubini: Three Choral Fugues Transcribed for Piano by Frédéric Chopin (Cherubini's Fugues are from the Cours de Contrepoint et de Fugue composed and Published:1832-35. Chopin's transcriptions Composed 1841- Published 2017)

Total playing time: 76:19

A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 204
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori Plays Domenico Scarlatti, Vol. 4, 20 Keyboard Sonatas

(For details of all performed works and for audio samples, please log on the Mordecai Shehori page)

Total playing time: 77:38

Price: $13.50

A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 203
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori Plays Rare Music Scores, Vol. 2
Works by:

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; Henryk Wieniawski; Mischa Levitzki; Josef Hofmann;
Shura Cherkassky; Anton Rubinstein

(For details of all performed works and for audio samples, please log on the Mordecai Shehori page)

Total playing time: 71:53

Price: $13.50

A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 202
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai  Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori Plays Domenico Scarlatti, Vol. 3
17 Keyboard Sonatas

(For details of all performed works and for audio samples, please log on the Mordecai Shehori page)

Total playing time: 71:16

Price: $13.50


A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 201
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori Plays Rare Music Scores, Vol. 1

Mordecai Shehori Plays Rare Music Scores,
Vol. 1,
Works by:

Édouard Wolff, František Drdla,
Anton Rubinstein, Mikhail Glinka,
Alexander Glazunov

(For details of all performed works and for audio samples, please log on the Mordecai Shehori page)

Total playing time: 66:41

Price: $13.50



A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 200
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori Plays Domenico Scarlatti

Mordecai Shehori Plays Domenico Scarlatti, Vol. 2, 16 Keyboard Sonatas

(For details of all performed works and for audio samples, please log on the Mordecai Shehori page)

Total playing time: 71:19

Price: $13.50

A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 199
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Learning by Example, Vol. 5

35 works by 20 composers for the
Aspiring Pianist

(For details of all performed works and for audio samples, please log on the Mordecai Shehori page)

Total playing time: 67:44

Price: $13.50


A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 198
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori, Piano
Playing time: 71:19

Price: $13.50

A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 197
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Shehori Plays Chopin Mazurkas

Frédéric Chopin: 17 Mazurkas Composed from
1840 to 1849, Presented in Chronological Order.

Total playing time: 60:35

Price: $13.50

A New Release!
Cembal d'amour, CD 196
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori Plays Chopin

Frédéric Chopin: 19 Mazurkas Composed from 1834 to 1839, Presented in Chronological Order.

Total playing time: 51:09

Price: $13.50

ljnlnkhhuykugf jjthh gCembal d'amour, CD 191
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Shehori Plays Liszt, Vol. 3

(2 Cds set)

This recording of the early (1827) and final (1852) versions of the Transcendental Etudes presents a rare side-by-side opportunity to witness Liszt’s genius, first as a young teenager with his Opus 1, and his development to artistic maturity, innovation, and power with the final version of the Transcendental Etudes. The Impromptu Brillant on Themes by Rossini and Spontini, Opus 3 (1825) is included since it pairs with Transcendental Etude No. 7 “Eroica”, and demonstrates the enormous influence that Italian opera composers had on Liszt and Chopin, among other music greats.

Etude en douze exercices, Op. 1 (complete)
(The forerunners to 11 Transcendental Etudes, 1827)

Etudes d’exécution Transcendante (1852, Complete)

Impromptu Brillant sur des Thèmes de Rossini et Spontini, Op. 3 (1825, The forerunner to Transcendental Etude No. 7, “Eroica”)

Total playing time: Disc 1: 63:45, Disc 2: 58:30

Price: $13.50


Cembal d'amour, CD 190
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori, Piano

The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 13

Recorded live 12 June 1991, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall

Johann Sebastian Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, BWV 974
(After Alessandro Marcello's Oboe Concerto)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Andante for the Mechanical Organ in F major, KV 616
Adagio in B minor, KV 540
Rondo in D major, KV 485

Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata Op. 2, No. 2, in A Major

Frédéric Chopin-Franz Liszt: Six Chants Polonais (Six Polish Songs)
The Maiden's Wish
Spring
The Silver Ring
Drinking Song
My Joy
The Dead Knight of the Forrest

Total playing time: 65:03

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 189
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori, Piano

The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 12

George Frederic Handel:
Chaconne in G Major (G 229)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata Op. 31, No. 2 in D Minor, “The Tempest”

Frédéric Chopin:
Barcarolle in F-Sharp Major, Op. 60
Polonaise in F-Sharp minor, Op. 44

Franz Schubert- Franz Liszt:
Ständchen (Serenade)

Franz Liszt:
Legend No. 2: Saint Francis of Paola Walking on the Waves

Recorded live in concert, 2 June 1993, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall

Total playing time: 66:51

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 188
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Shehori Plays Beethoven, Vol. 3
The Early Years

Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in A-Flat Major, Op. 110 (1821)

Recorded live 19 May 1970, Jerusalem, Israel.
The first prize winning performance at the Beethoven Competition.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 (1808)

Clayton Westermann, Conductor
The Hunter Symphony

Recorded live 5 December 1977, New York City.

Total playing time: 53:08

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 187
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori. Piano

The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 11

Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto in the Italian Style, in F Major, BWV 971

Johannes Brahms:

Three Intermezzi Op. 117

Modest Mussorgsky:

Pictures at an Exhibition

Fritz Kreisler:

Schön Rosmarin (From Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen)

Aram Khachaturian:

Toccata

Ernesto Nazareth:

Odeon-Tango Brasileiro

Recordings dates and venues

Tracks 1-3: 22 May 1986, Merkin Concert Hall
Tracks 4-6: 12 June 1991, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Tracks 7-21: 27 January 1982, 92nd Street Y
Track 22: 2 May 2002, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
Track 23: 6 June 1989, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Track 24: 14 June 2003, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center

Total playing time: 65:51

Price: $13.50



Cembal d'amour, CD 186
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori, Piano

The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 10

FRANZ SCHUBERT: Impromptu No. 1 in F Minor, Opus posth. 142, DV 935

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58

SERGEI PROKOFIEV: Two Works from Romeo & Juliet, Op. 75
Dance of the Girls With Lilies
The Montagues and the Capulets

SERGEI PROKOFIEV: Suggestion Diabolique, Op. 4, No. 4

MORDECAI SHEHORI: Lament-In Memory of the 9/11 2001 Victims

CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK: Melody from “Orpheus” (Transcription by Sgambatti / Shehori)

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: Mazurka in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30, No. 4

Recordings dates and venues

Tracks 1-8: 20 May 1985, Merkin Concert Hall
Tracks 9 & 10: 2 May 2002, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
Track 11: 2 June 2001, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center

Total playing time: 58:00

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 185
Mindru Katz, Piano

Mindru Katz Plays Beethoven

The Legendary Pianist Mindru Katz Plays Beethoven, Vol. 2

Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 22 (1799/80)

Sonata in E Major, Op. 109 (1820)

Sonata in C Minor, Op. 111 (1822)

(Recorded live in recital, 7 July, 1971, Tel Aviv, Israel)

“Mindru Katz, a pianist of unbounded strength, vitality, and assurance. It was supremely musical and poetic playing as well as a great technical tour de force.”

The Times (London)

Total playing time: 76:21

Price: $13.50


Cembal d'amour, CD 184
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Learning by Example Series, Vol. 4
(Recorded: June 2016, Las Vegas)

22 Works by 17 Composers that Pianists Young and Older Will Love to Study and Play

Johann Ladislas Dussek: Allegro in G Major

Anton Diabelli: Bagatelle in C Major

Joseph Haydn: “Gypsy Rondo” from Piano Trio Op. 39
(Transcription by Mordecai Shehori)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Gertrude’s Dream Waltz,(Attributed)

Ludwig van Beethoven: “Rage over a Lost Penny” Op. 129

Robert Schumann: Träumerei (Dreaming)
(From Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15)

Robert Schumann: The Prophet Bird
(From Forest Scenes, Op. 82)

Edvard Grieg: Papillon
(Butterfly, from Lyric Pieces, Op. 12)

Emil Waldteufel: The Skaters
(Transcription and variants by Mordecai Shehori)

John Field: Nocturne No. 5, in B-Flat Major

Gabriel Fauré: Romance sans Paroles
(Romance Without Words) Op. 17, No. 2

Jules Massenet: Melodie, Op. 10, No. 5

Claude Debussy: Clair de Lune (Moonlight)
(From Suite Bergamasque)

Claude Debussy: Arabesque No. 1,
in E Major

Claude Debussy: Arabesque No. 2,
in G Major

Claude Debussy: Rêverie
(Pleasant Dreamlike Thoughts)

Anton Rubinstein: Romance
in E-Flat Major, Op. 44

Isaac Albéniz: Malagueňa

Enrique Granados: Spanish Dance,
Op. 5, No. 5

Alexander Scriabin: Album Leaf,
Op. 45, No. 1        

Dmitri Kabalevsky: Having Fun
(From Op. 27)

Scott Joplin: The Cascades

Total playing time: 70:33

Price: $13.50




Cembal d'amour, CD 183
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 9
(Recorded live 19 May, 1992, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall)

"That Shehori makes one unbroken singing line of this etude (Au Bord d’une Source) affirms his status – along with the likes of Horowitz, Cziffra, and Wild – as one of the great Liszt acolytes."

Gray Lemco,
www.audaud.com

Disc 1

FRANZ LISZT
1.  Impromptu in F-Sharp Major
2.  Au Bord d’une Source in A-Flat Major
  (In säuselnder Kühle, Beginnen die Spiele, Der jungen Natur-Schiller)
3.  Canzone “Nessùn maggior dolore” (After Rossini’s opera ‘Otello’)
4.  Funérailles (From Harmonies poétiques et religieuses)

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
5-8. Fifteen Variations and a Fugue in E-Flat Major, Op. 35, “Eroica”

Disc 2

FRANZ SCHUBERT
1-4. Sonata in A Major, D 959 (Opus posth.)

Encores

PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
5.  Melodie for Violin and Piano in E-Flat Major, Op. 42, No. 3
    (Transcription for solo piano by Mordecai Shehori)

MAURICE MOSZKOWSKI
6.  Etincelles (Sparks) Op. 36, No. 6

FREDERIC CHOPIN
7.  Mazurka in G Minor, Op. 24, No. 1

Total playing time: Disc 1: 46:05,
Disc 2: 4
8:27

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 182
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Shehori Plays Fantasies

Shehori Plays Fantasies

BEETHOVEN: Fantasy Op. 77 (1809)

SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17 (1835-36)
“Through all the tones of Earth’s many-hued dream, one soft-drawn note may be heard by him who listens in ‘secret’.”
Friedrich Schlegel

CHOPIN: Fantasy in F Minor, Op. 49 (1841)

CHOPIN: Polonaise-Fantasy in A-Flat Major, Op. 61 (1845-46)

Total playing time: 62:41

Price: $13.50

Cembal d'amour, CD 181
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori CD 181

The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 8
(16 June, 2000, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center)
Disc 1

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Sonata in A Minor, KV 310

Johannes Brahms: 25 Variations and a Fugue on a Theme by Händel, Op. 24


Disc 2


Maurice Ravel: Sonatine


Franz Liszt: 3 Petrarch Sonnets

Sonetto 47, “…Blessèd be the first sweet agony I felt when I found myself bound to love...”
Sonetto 104, “…I see with no eyes, shout without a tongue; I yearn to perish, and I beg for help…”
Sonetto 123, “I saw on earth angelic qualities and heavenly beauties unique in the world, so the memory pleases and pains me…”

Franz Liszt:
Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (After the poem “Dance in the Country Tavern” by Nikolaus  Lenau)

Encores:

Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4
Moritz Moszkowski: Guitar, Op. 45, No. 2

Total playing time: Disc 1: 48:52, Disc 2: 48:44

Price: $13.50

“Making a Lost Style Speak to Today’s Ears” (Headlines)
The New York Times

Cembal d'amour, CD 179
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Shehori Plays Bach Vol 4

Mordecai Shehori Plays Bach, Vol. 4

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2.
Preludes & Fugues 13-24


"I spent much of the last few days listening to Mordecai Shehori's miraculous recording of Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues. To say he has has reconciled the functions of the harpsichord in the context of its era with the abilities of the modern piano, while conveying every systole of musical meaning in a manner commensurate with the demands of period style, expressive nuance, and meaning - right down to the antiphonal role played by acoustics in the presentation of Bach's choral music where registration and position of the choruses at various places throughout the church were just as important to musical meaning as the notes and rhythms (so ingeniously codified in the keyboard music) - is an understatement. Shehori music making defines the meaning and importance of micro dynamics to this music as well, to speak nothing of that of the contrapuntal melody. If I were Stalin, I would order a decree compelling everyone on the planet to buy this set - AT ONCE!"

By John Bell Young (June 1, 2015)

Total playing time: 75:41

Price: $13.50



Cembal d'amour, CD 174
Mordecai Shehori, Piano

Mordecai Shehori Plays Beethoven, Vol 2

Mordecai Shehori Plays Beethoven, Vol. 2

Sonata in E Major, Op. 109 (1820)
 (Recorded: 10 January 2014, Las Vegas, USA)
Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 81a, “Les Adieux” (1809/10)
 (Recorded: 28 June, 1996, New York, USA)
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 (“Emperor”) (1809)
James Bolle, Conducting the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra.
(Recorded live: 16 October, 1992, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

Total playing time: 76:27

Price: $13.50