Sold Date: June 28, 2015
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alicedayglo proudly presents:

J.S. Bach: Chorale "Wachet auf" / Chaconne in D Minor (transcribed Busoni) / Toccata and Fugue in E Minor / Toccata and Fugue in D Major. Agnelle Bundervoët plays piano solo. Superb performance !!!

--------------------> ONE OF THE HOLY GRAILS OF PIANO PLAYING !!! <-------------------


Agnelle Bundervoët's ability to perform the piano repertoire from Bach to the most difficult contemporary works equally brilliantly earned her the admiration of the critics and also pianists as eminent as Yvonne Lefébure. She played with Paul Paray, Eugène Bigot, Pierre-Michel Le Conte, Charles Brück. Each concert was a triumph. After one, a critic who never had anything good to say about anyone raved about her in the press and arranged to meet her. He introduced himself as the director of Ducretet-Thomson and expressed his deep admiration. ‘Well’, she asked, ‘why don’t you make a recording of me’? Due to the simple reason that Bach was lacking in the D-T catalogue, the resulting disc was a Bach recital. Agnelle herself made the choice of works - Bach-Busoni transcription of Wachet Auf and the Chaccone and two Toccatas and Fugues. Uniquely and justifiably, she was awarded a ‘Grand Prix du Disque 1955’ for her first recording, her playing displaying an extraordinary musical maturity. However, she was not invited to record again for Ducretet-Thomson. Neither was she paid.

The French pianist, Agnelle Bundervoët, was born in Puy de Dôme, Ambert, in the centre of France. Her father was of Belgian descent - the name comes from Gand. As he had made his career in the French Army, the family were always moving from city to city. When she was 4, Agnelle began to learn the piano with her mother, placing her ear against it to listen to the sound. At the age of 7 she was enrolled in the Conservatoire National de Marseilles where three years later she won a Grand Prix. Realizing the child needed special attention her mother took Agnelle to visit the great pedagogue Lazare-Levy in Paris. The result of this meeting was that the 10-year-old Agnelle immediately entered the music theory class at the Paris Conservatoire - while receiving free private tuition from the Master himself, in preparation for the higher piano class. She was to be admitted at 13, but finding there was no place for her in Lazare-Levy’s class, it was decided she should wait a year - all the while resisting Marguerite Long's attempts to get Agnelle into her class. She finally entered Levy's class in 1936. She was later to recall, “I created my own technique from watching him because he wasn’t much interested in technical problems for their own sake. His main concern at the piano was music.” Despite a difficult relationship with Lelia Gousseau, his assistant and former pupil, Agnelle was a brilliant student

Label: Ducretet-Thomson 270C048. First edition (ED1). The vinyl of this early (1955) French 10" LP is vg+ (a couple of small marks and some lines, plays great with an incidental soft pop only). No stereo exists. IMPOSSIBLE RARE !!!

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