Emil von Sauer redux

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For some reason got started listening today to his " Les Delices de Vienne", and kept going !


Solo piano works of Emil von Sauer (1862-1942) played by Oleg Marshev,Danacord cd ( in my collection as well ), all audio with scores:

“ Les Delices de Vienne ( “ Wiener Freuden” ) “

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6n8rGM6mcM

Etude Galop :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K8WPVz0KtY

“Echo de Vienne ( “Valse de Concert “ ) “

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6eRTFXdSBg

His two Piano Concertos performed by his wife Angelica von Sauer-Morales, Vienna Symphony,Robert Herger ( 1953 ):

Concerto #1 (1900 ) ; the great “Cavatina” mov. starts at about 19:30 in :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjTJYJ36S6Y (Stephen Hough has also recorded for Hyperion )

Concerto # 2 ( 1903 ) , another fine slow mov. :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOksnhlBL30

From Naxos : “ His first wife bore him nine children and after her death he married one of his students, Angelica Morales; she was twenty eight, he was seventy seven; they had two children.”

Jonathan Summers : “ … the last disc he made in 1941 at the age of seventy-nine is one of the glories of the gramophone. It is of Liszt’s Étude d’exécution transcendante No. 9 Ricordanza. A daunting work to play effectively at any age, Sauer’s lifetime of experience seems distilled into this performance. Poetry, elegance, poise, expression are all here. As the great pianist Josef Hofmann once said, ‘Sauer was a truly great virtuoso.’ “ https://www.naxos.com/person/Emil_Sauer_44182/44182.htm

Here is that “Ricordanza “ recording of 1941 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sRGdiXTgEk