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Hommage à Wanda Landowska

Music CD, English, ℗1990
AS Disc, Italy, ℗1990
2 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in.
27691958
Piano sonata in F major, KV 332 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (26:00)
Wanda Landowska talks
Chromatic fantasy and fugue : BWV 903 (13:50)
Well tempered clavier, book 1. Prelude and fugue no 1 in C major, BWV 846 (4:20) ; Prelude and fugue no 2 in C minor, BWV 847 (3:55) ; Prelude and fugue no 8 in E flat minor, BWV 853 (10:40) ; Prelude and fugue no 11 in F major, BWV 856 (2:45) ; Prelude no 16 in G minor, BWV 861 (7:20)
Wanda Landowaska talks
Concerto no. 2 in E major for violin, BWV 1042. Third movement (2:30)
Wanda Landowska talks
Opening from cantata no. 212 : Meer hanh en neue Oberkeet : Peasant cantata (2:05) / Johann Sebastian Bach
Troisieme Livre, XIII ordre in B minor. No 4, Les folies françaises, ou, les dominos (12:00) ; Deuxieme livre, XI ordre in C minor : Les fastes de la grande et ancienne mênestrandise. No. 2, Les Viéleux et les Gueux (2:15) ; No 3, Les jongleurs, sauteurs, et saltimbiques avec les ours et les singes (1:19) ; Premiere livre, III ordre in C minor. No 12, La favorite (6:25) ; Troisieme livre, XV ordre in A minor. No 2, Le dodo (3:50) ; No 4, Musète (3:00) ; Quatrieme livre, XXV ordre in E flat minor. No 5, Les ombres errantes (4:00) ; Quatrieme livre, XXVI ordre in F sharp minor. No 5, La pantomime (3:25) / Franc̜ois Couperin
Les Tresors d'Orphèe. Branslegai (3:00) ; Branslesimple (2:50) ; Danse domestique (1:45) / Antoine Francisque
Wanda Landowska talks
Passacaille in D minor / J. Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer (7:45)
Volte du Roi / Michael Praetorius (2:05)
A ground / Henry Purcell (3:00)
La volta / William Byrd (1:45)
Bourrée / Georg Philipp Telemann (2:30)
Bourrée d'Auvergne / Wanda Landowska (1:55)
Some works previously released
AS Disc; AS 354/5 (AS 354--AS 355)
The 8th-9th works, transcribed for harpsichord
Recorded in Paris, 1938 (1st work) and live in 1950-1951 (remainder).
Includes short introductions by the performer in English
Wanda Landowska, piano (1st work) ; harpsichord (remainder).