NI 8812
Total Playing Time 78.15
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Ignaz Jan Paderewski plays Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Wagner & Schelling

"This is another superb disc in Nimbus' Grand Piano series, compiled with breathtaking skill from piano-rolls. The central item is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. I heard this artist play the work at the Royal Albert Hall in those palmy days when pianists were not ashamed to be personalities with something personal to say. Sometimes the results were idiosyncratic, but on this disc the performances have fidelity, tonal glory and just that touch of individuality which should always mark a true musician. Above all, the playing has unremitting grandeur. This is big treatment of a programme that shows the great man at his best ... this is a golden record of a golden age. Buy it all costs."

Geoffrey Crankshaw, Musical Opinion Magazine