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A series of great  Solo instrumentals - Piano Violin Cello Harp, Winds and Brass on 78 rpm records

 

Great British pianist Harold Bauer in his  early electric 1926 Victor  Records session

Harold Bauer -

BEETHOVEN MONLIGHT Sonata Op 27.2/  Beethoven arr Bauer Gavotte in F Major

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Harold Bauer was a rara avis, indeed, a concert pianist who never had a formal piano lesson, enjoyed a concert career lasting nearly five decades and was a respected teacher at institutions of higher learning; were he to come along five decades after his death, Bauer would never had made it past the front door of any American university as instructor. One thing Bauer was not was a particularly prolific recording artist; Bauer's most famous and widely circulated recordings were made for Victor between 1924 and 1929, to which he added a final group in 1942; another batch was made for the short-lived Schirmer label in 1939 and Bauer recorded a few things for British HMV in 1935.

 That is one of the amazing things about Bauer; relatively simple things tend to trip him up, whereas he was able to take difficult, virtuosic material and deliver it with intensity, drive, and absolute assurance. With Bauer, technique was not the prime consideration, musicianship was, and if there was any time where he felt his technique was letting him down, the musicianship took over. All of Bauer's performances emphasize the melodic line -- his first instrument was the violin -- and concentrate very productively on the dramatic progression of a particular piece; Bauer's tone is likewise warm and inviting. His 1939 Schirmer recording of the Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor is a benchmark performance of that work, a prime example of pianistic power and passion in the romantic keyboard idiom.

Harold Bauer was somewhere in between a virtuosic maverick of the piano -- like his idol and mentor Ignace Jan Paderewski -- and your brilliantly talented Uncle Ed who played the piano so well you wondered what ever kept him out of the concert hall. Anyone who loves the piano and can withstand the vagaries of mono era recording technology will cherish these of the performances. While history has given us a lot of great pianists, there was still only one Harold Bauer, and this is a fitting tribute to his superhuman achievements and honestly documents his very human shortcomings as a pianist.

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