Egon Petri plays Medtner Fairy Tales Op.20 #1 and #2, live in Basel

[Vlasta4444]

magnificent! thank you!

[jpbracey]

Petri was and is a legend forever!! - JP

[markarama23]

@jpbracey Indeed!

[Galltywenallt]

Very good. But I have to correct the poster. These recordings (from 1958) were issued on Dell'Arte DA2009 and subsequently transferred to CD on Music & Arts 772 (nla).

[markarama23]

@Galltywenallt What I mean by 'never commercially recorded' is that Petri did not record these works for his record company, Columbia. These are live performances issued after his death by another label without his permission.

[ghe67]

Best performance ever, incredible sonority and touch, a master.

Great Egon, one of the best pianist of his age.

[markarama23]

@ghe67 He was magnificent but somehow never recognized quite as much as he deserved...

[ghe67]

@markarama23 ...True , is a shame. Busoni was his teacher and friend, like another great and forgotten pianist (A. Brailowsky) fortunately we have his records.

[weikko79]

Petri played Medtner's Fairy Tales? I'll be damned...

[markarama23]

@weikko79 I know!!! And very well!

[Bognarfan]

Wow! HA e sounds like a force of nature What a dramatic piece.

[markarama23]

@Bognarfan He *was* a force! And dramatic music indeed!