Leonard Pennario – Pennario Plays Piano Music by Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Gershwin and More (Remastered) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Leonard Pennario – Pennario Plays Piano Music by Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Gershwin and More (Remastered) (2019)
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“Nobody plays the piano better than Leonard Pennario,” wrote the eminent critic Andrew Porter in London’s New Statesman in 1952, when the competition would have included none less than Horowitz in his prime. That year, Pennario began recording for Capitol Records in Los Angeles, and a decade later he moved to RCA Victor, for which label he made a series of distinguished albums. To mark the tenth anniversary of Pennario’s death, Sony Classical reissues various of the pianist’s RCA recordings together for the first time.

Born in 1924 in Buffalo, New York, Pennario gave his first public performance there at the age of seven, later moving with his family to Los Angeles, where his teachers included the legendary Isabella Vengerova. His breakthrough came in 1936, when he made his orchestral debut deputizing for an indisposed soloist with the Dallas Symphony. On that memorable occasion, the twelve-year-old performed the Grieg Piano Concerto, a work he had never heard, let alone played, until a few days earlier.

Dazzling concertos would, of course, feature prominently in Pennario’s discography, and his first RCA Victor releases in 1964 included Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the Franck Symphonic Variations with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops (High Fidelity: “immense dexterity and bravura”) and the two Liszt concertos with René Leibowitz conducting the London Symphony (Gramophone: “magisterial accounts of both works … it is a constant delight to listen to his effortless brilliance and power … vivid ‘hi-fi’ recording”).

Among the acclaimed solo recital albums in this set are a collection of popular short pieces by Beethoven, Schubert, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Rubinstein, Grieg, Falla, Debussy, Gershwin and Rachmaninoff which Pennario plays “with admirable care and impeccable taste” (High Fidelity) as well as both books of Debussy Préludes: “This is a most beautifully played set” (Gramophone).

Tracklist:
1-01. Leonard Pennario – 8 Humoresques, Op. 101, No. 7 in G-Flat Major (Remastered) (03:05)
1-02. Leonard Pennario – 2 Pieces, Op. 10, No. 2 – Humoresque (Remastered) (02:23)
1-03. Leonard Pennario – 7 Morceaux de salon, Op. 10, No. 5 – Humoresque in G Major (Remastered) (03:39)
1-04. Leonard Pennario – Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3, No. 4 – Polichinelle in F-Sharp Minor (Remastered) (03:39)
1-05. Leonard Pennario – Children’ Corner, L. 113, No. 6 – Golliwog’s Cake-walk (Remastered) (02:50)
1-06. Leonard Pennario – 3 Preludes, IGG 25 – I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso (Remastered) (01:22)
1-07. Leonard Pennario – 3 Preludes, IGG 25 – II. Andante con moto e poco rubato (Remastered) (03:16)
1-08. Leonard Pennario – 3 Preludes, IGG 25 – III. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso (Remastered) (01:17)
1-09. Leonard Pennario – Moments musicaux, D. 780 – No. 3 in F Minor (Remastered) (01:57)
1-10. Leonard Pennario – Fur Elise, WoO 59 (Remastered) (02:35)
1-11. Leonard Pennario – The Seasons, Op. 37a, No. 11 – On the Troika in E Major (Remastered) (02:31)
1-12. Leonard Pennario – Lyric Pieces, Op. 43, No. 6 ‘To Spring’ (Remastered) (02:40)
1-13. Leonard Pennario – Lyric Pieces, Op. 43, No. 1 ‘Butterfly’ (Remastered) (01:52)
1-14. Leonard Pennario – Piezas Espanolas, IMF 10, No. 4 – Andaluza (Remastered) (03:09)
1-15. Leonard Pennario – 6 Soirees a Saint-Petersbourg, Op. 44, No. 1 – Romance in E-Flat Major (Remastered) (02:50)
1-16. Leonard Pennario – 6 Pieces, Op. 19, No. 2 – Scherzo humoristique in D Major (Remastered) (03:33)

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