2CDs
Perhaps 20th-century pianism's most direct link to Liszt and Chopin
A session-by-session presentation of all his surviving HMV recordings many published for the first time. The programme includes:
CHOPIN Waltzes 5 (2 versions) & 7 • Nocturnes 2 (2 versions) & 8
Etude, Op.25/2 • Nouvelle étude 2 • Preludes, Op.28/3, 6, 7 & 13
Mazurkas 16, 23, 25, 31 (3 versions), 39 & 42
J.STRAUSS - ROSENTHAL New Carneval de Vienne (2 versions)
SCHUBERT - LISZT Soirèe de Vienne 6 • Rosenthal Papillons
The beauty of tone, the vitality and exuberance are quite outside our normal experience of piano playing... Rosenthal had, in the highest degree, every quality which is required to form a perfect pianist - and these records prove it. The Musical Times (UK)