Gina Bachauer – Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83 by Gina Bachauer (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:37 minutes | 981 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Gina Bachauer was born into an Italian-Austrian family. She performed in public for the first time at the age of 8 and from 1924 studied at the Athens Conservatory in the class of Busoni’s pupil Woldemar Freeman. In 1929 she left the Conservatory with a gold medal. Three years after that she moved to Paris and took lessons with Alfred Cortot and later with Sergei Rachmaninoff.
In the 1930 she accompanied the Paris Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Monteux and the Athens Symphony Orchestra under Dimitri Mitropoulos. During World War 2, she gave hundreds of concerts in Egypt for Allied troop support. After the war she then started her international career in London.
Tracklist:
1-1. Gina Bachauer – Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat Major, Op. 83 – I. Allegro non troppo (Remastered 2023, Studio 1962) (16:21)
1-2. Gina Bachauer – Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat Major, Op. 83 – II. Allegro appassionato (Remastered 2023, Studio 1962) (08:28)
1-3. Gina Bachauer – Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat Major, Op. 83 – III. Andante (Remastered 2023, Studio 1962) (10:09)
1-4. Gina Bachauer – Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83 – IV. Allegretto grazioso (Remastered 2023, Studio 1962) (08:52)
1-5. Gina Bachauer – Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35 (Book II) (Remastered 2023, Studio 1963) (09:45)
