The legendary pianists; Grieg

Nation of educational broadcasters. The legendary pianists Washington State University brings you another in a series of recitals by the keyboard giants of the early 20th century. The masters of piano art who made most of their recordings before the era of modern electronics. These legendary concert artists made their records on thick rolls of perforated paper similar to the player piano rolls but designed for a much more complex instrument called the reproducing piano recital we will hear today is selected from more than a thousand of these roll recordings in the collection of Dr. Campbell style. The chairman of the music department at Washington State University. The performance will be on a Steinway duo are reproducing piano and Dr. Stout's home.

Here now is Dr. Campbell start to introduce today's imaginary pianist. Percy Greene Ger was born near Melbourne Australia in 1882 at the age of 10 he gave concerts in his native country thereby earning the means to go to Frankfurt Germany where he studied for the next six years. He became a people of Mussolini's about 1900 and enjoyed considerable success as a concert artist even prior to moving to the United States in 1014. Having been a close friend of Greeks he is well qualified to give us an authoritative performance of that composers a minor concerto not only does Percy Grenier play the solo piano part but has also arranged and recorded the orchestral accompaniment. Both parts are combined into one player role. It is in this form that you will now hear the concerto the first movement is marked Allegro molto matter up to the second movement Adagio and the third movement Allegro mater Otto a markup to a.

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Percy Granger the featured artist on today's program. The next programme in the series will present her old power in an all Chopin recital which will include the holidays in C Minor Nocturne in F sharp the fantasy in F Minor and the waltz in a flat. Opus 42. This has been the legendary pianists a series of recitals from reproducing piano rolls by the great concert pianists of the early 20th century. Your host and commentator on these programs is Dr. Campbell Stout the chairman of the music department of Washington State University. The legendary pianists is produced by Omar Erickson for Washington State University

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