Some of those Steinberg LP records sold very well and are still commonly found. MFP 2025 must have been many a listener's introduction to Elgar's Enigma Variations and RVW's Thomas Tallis in the early 1960's, and the Holst Planets (1971) on Deutsche Grammophon with the Boston must have been a big seller. It has a fantastic 'silver surfer' type artwork on the LP which I'm sure I've also seen on a CD - much of Steinberg's work has been re-issued on CD - see Amazon.

On a World Records LP I have him with Nathan Milstein playing the Dvorak and Glazunov concertos (1966 ? ), in mono, not sure of the source.

The Milstein discography is well-detailed at

http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/5585/

and lists those concertos as with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 17 Apr. 1957
on Capitol P8382 (1957) and re-issued EMI CD CFP64830 (1993) with no mention of the release on World Records in 1966.

John W

It's the her recording of the fifth Bethoven piano concerto which gained her much fame. It was picked as top choice for Building a Library. Her Ravel was very good too. Radio 3 has played her recording of Mirroirs a couple of times. Her recordings of someof the Beethoven concertos and also oneof the Liszt concertos have appeared under clightly changed names, on CD.

Re. Hanae Nakajima, she is/was real enough.

Various bits and pieces found via Google:


In 1969 she was a finalist in the Concours Clara Haskil - Vevey (Suisse).

In 2001 she was teaching piano at the Nürnberg Augsburg university.

See photo 108 at http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/instrumental71.html


From http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2002/Nov02/swiss_flute.htm :

"How pleasing to see the name of Räto Tschupp as conductor. Sad however to discover that he died on 12 February 2002. He was founder and director of Camerata Zürich. His name may ring a bell with you. Thirty years ago he was the conductor of a Beethoven piano concerto cycle with the pianist Hanae Nakajima and (I think) the Hamburg Philharmonic. The first LP to appear included The Emperor. It made a major splash at the time coming out of total obscurity and without the benefit of any form of media marketing. The LPs, in pretty rudimentary packaging, were sold through Woolworths in the UK and at something like 87p stocks of each shifted like hot cakes. They were praised to the skies in some quarters. Yet Nakajima disappeared from view (unless you know better) and similarly Herr Tschupp. As it turns out he became a hardworking figure in Switzerland's musical life being a particular champion for 20th century music and the dedicatee of many new works. He premiered more than one hundred such works during his career."




Search for her name on http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail/1211062 for some Beethoven sontas, etc. in a 40 CD set.


Her recording of the Liszt Piano COncerto #2 is available at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Klavierkonzerte-Franz-Liszt/dp/B0000259OQ

How nice to see your name here on this MB, smittins.
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TP - You are very good at finding video clips, so when you have a spare moment, I wonder if you could find one of Jefim Bronfman? Although I have not heard him since the 1970s, he holds a place in my thoughts because he was the pianist at a concert where I heard Rachmaninov No. 3 for the first time.

TP
That is very kind of you - thank you. I'm going out to lunch today, so listening to the video/s will have to wait until later!

About twenty minutes ago, I turned to R3 in time to hear the discussion about Joyce Hatto and thought what a coincidence it was, well, for me anyway, that Jefim Bronfman was mentioned too.

TP

Following your link, I have just listened to the first of the 12. I have added it to the favourites list. (I shall have to spend some time tomorrow organising that list yet again!) Thank you very much. It was really nice to see the orchestra close up too.

Some people catch up public right away, but others don't. Horoshowsky had to wait his time until he was about 100 years old. (At least I never heard his name before).