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Halina Czerny-Stefanska: Polonaise in B flat major, Op. 71, No. 2 (Chopin)

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Halina Czerny-Stefanska plays Chopin's Polonaise in B flat major, Op. 71, No. 2. This recording was released in 1959 on the Muza label (Polskie Nagrania), SXL 0057. From the Dziela Wszystkie (Complete Works) series.
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Halina Czerny-Stefańska - (ur. 31 grudnia 1922 w Krakowie - zm. 1 lipca 2001 w Krakowie) - polska pianistka. Laureatka I nagrody IV edycji Konkursu Chopinowskiego w 1949. Otrzymała również nagrodę za najlepsze wykonanie mazurków F. Chopina, ufundowaną przez Polskie Radio. Wygrana na tym konkursie otwarła jej drogę do międzynarodowej kariery pianistycznej. Wystąpiła w najbardziej renomowanych salach koncertowych Europy, Japonii, Stanów Zjednoczonych, Ameryki Południowej. Odbyła ponad 20 tournée po Związku Radzieckim. Występowała z towarzyszeniem najbardziej znanych orkiestr symfonicznych, współpracując z tak znakomitymi dyrygentami, m.in. Adrian Boult, Zubin Mehta, Georg Solti, Vaclav Smetacek, Witold Rowicki, Paweł Klecki. W jej repertuarze koncertowym znajdowały się utwory od baroku do muzyki współczesnej, dominowała jednak muzyka F. Chopina. Nagrała wiele płyt LP i CD dla takich wytwórni jak: Polskie Nagrania, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI Classics, Pony Cayon, His Masters Voice, Decca, Selene. (Wikipedia)

Halina Czerny-Stefańska (December 31, 1922 July 1, 2001) was a Polish pianist. She studied piano under her father, Stanislaw Szwarcenberg-Czerny, as well as with Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, and later with Józef Turczyński and Zbigniew Drzewiecki in Warsaw. She was a joint First Prize winner at the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1949, sharing this prize with Bella Davidovich. Her repertoire was restricted to few composers other than Frédéric Chopin and even her Chopin repertoire was not large. For example, she did not play the Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor live until 1951, and she never played the F minor concerto at all, as she did not like it. She was proven to be the real pianist in a recording of the E minor concerto that was misattributed to Dinu Lipatti. The recording was released in 1966 by EMI, and on the 1971 British release was a note to the effect that, although the name of the conductor and orchestra were not known, there was no doubt the soloist was Lipatti. The BBC broadcast the recording in 1981, and a listener wrote in, noting the similarities between it and a Supraphon recording from the early 1950s with Czerny-Stefańska under Václav Smetáček. Tests revealed these were one and the same recording. The so-called Lipatti recording was withdrawn. (Wikipedia)

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  • My favourite interpretation!!!!! Wonderful!

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