Winifred Atwell - Chopin: Fantasie-Impromptu

[BLUEBELL258]

@steinwaygrande1. So very sorry, it is squirell1952 who made awful comment not you. I do apologize. Thanks so much for posting.

[BLUEBELL258]

@steinwaygrande1,  Why spoil something beautiful with this awful comment.

[sirwolfit]

Apparently she studied with Tobias Matthay who also taught, among others, Myra Hess, Clifford Curzon and Moura Lympany.

[steinwaygrande1]

@sirwolfit . Myra Hess , Clifford Curzon and Moura Lympany bring back wonnderful memories ! I have all three of them playing different works by various composers

[squirell1952]

@steinwaygrande1 - MYRA H YNDLEY BRINGS BACK MEMORIES, TOO!

[Offshoreorganbuilder]

Thanks for posting this. Now I know where her amazing command of the keyboard came from.

[ChristopherSyn1]

@Offshoreorganbuilder She was a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music.

[Offshoreorganbuilder]

@ChristopherSyn1 Ah ... the truth is revealed! Thanks.

[ChristopherSyn1]

@Offshoreorganbuilder Her article in Wikipedia (q.v.) gives full details of her life. I have a treasured memory of seeing her at the EmpireTheatre in Newcastle on Tyne in the 1950s. She played Cross Hands Boogie at the concert grand and then went over to her "other piano", an upright with the front panel removed, to play Black and White Rag.

[steinwaygrande1]

@ChristopherSyn1 Was she at the Academy of Music overseas or here in Australia - or both :-)) A great loss not to be able to see her [playing in real life. Far too many good musicians have gone to that great concert hall in the sky - I guess they are having a wonderful time, each outdoing the other - all in good fun, naturally.

[cozminos]

beautiful, thanks for sharing

[PhonoB790]

Thankyou for sharing this wonderful music! I have the same CD. Does anyone know if the CD is in stereo?

[PhonoB790]

@PhonoB790:

This is a mono CD, says Simon from Vocalion.