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The saga of Sergio Fiorentino’s SAGA-recordings
Sergio Fiorentino made his first commercial recordings for the very small and too ‘adventurous’ label Concert Artist, owned and managed by William Halford Barrington-Coupe. SAGA was a small but enterprising company in the late fifties. SAGA eventually passed into liquidation and the repertoire was acquired by ‘Allied Records / Associated Performances / Art & Sound’. The new owners continued to reissue periodically the original SAGA performances, retaining the old catalogue numbers or also using new ones. This accounts for the many ‘versions’ of the same recordings with different sleeves, differently coloured labels and even stereo releases some of which are clearly ‘fake stereo’. SAGA released 10 albums by Fiorentino, that are finally collected for the first time in this CD release. [E.Lumpe]
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| Rhine Classics | Catalogue No: RH-033 | EAN/barcode: 4713106280332 | 10CD | T.T. 8:10:26 | 28 pages booklet | Original Jackets | ℗ & © 2024 |
CD1 | 53:43
SCHUMANN
• Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
Hamburg Pro Musica | Erich Riede
• Carnaval, Op.9
rec: Hamburg, 6-8.VII.1958
Saga XID 5001 | ℗ 1958
CD2 | 37:01
LISZT
• Piano Concerto No.1 in E-flat major, S.124
Hamburg Pro Musica | Erich Riede
• Hungarian Rhapsody No.15 in A minor, S.244/15 “Rákóczi-Marsch”
• Grand étude de Paganini, S.141/3 in G-sharp minor “La Campanella”
• Notturno No.3 in A-flat major, S.541/3 “Liebestraum”
• Étude d’exécution transcendante, S.139/6 in G minor “Vision”
rec: Hamburg, 6-8.VII.1958
Saga XID 5008 | ℗ 1958
CD3 | 55:57
CHOPIN
• 19 Waltzes
• 3 Écossaises, Op.72/3 posth.
rec: Hamburg, 6-7.VII.1958
Saga XID 5016 | ℗ 1959
CD4 | 46:28
CHOPIN
• 24 Preludes, Op.28
• Prelude No.25 in C-sharp minor, Op.45
• Prelude No.26 in A-flat major, Op. posth.
rec: London, 8-10.IX.1958
Saga XID 5076 | ℗ 1959
CD5 | 46:23
BEETHOVEN
• Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat major, Op.73 “Emperor”
Hamburg Pro Musica | George Hurst
• 32 Variations in C minor, on an original theme, WoO 80
rec: Hamburg, 18-19.V.1959
Saga AAA-ST 4002 | ℗ 1959
CD6 | 44:14
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat major, Op.23
Hamburg Pro Musica | George Hurst
CHOPIN Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat major, Op.61 -1st take-
rec: Hamburg, 18-19.V.1959
Saga STM 6021 | ℗ 1959
CD7 | 57:23
LISZT piano recital:
• Ballade No.1 in D-flat major, S.170
• Ballade No.2 in B Minor, S.171
• Hungarian Rhapsody No.8 in F-sharp minor, S.244/8
• Harmonies poétiques et religieuses III, S.173 /7 “Funérailles”
• Notturno No.3 in A-flat major, S.541/3 “Liebestraum” *
• Hungarian Rhapsody No.12 in C-sharp minor, S.244/12
rec: Paris, 25-26.I.1960 | *: Hamburg | 7.VII.1958
Saga XID 5020 | ℗ 1960
CD8 | 52:08
CHOPIN Nocturnes • Vol.1 (Nos. 1-10)
rec: London, 4-5.III.1960
Saga 5376 | ℗ 1974
CD9 | 58:13
CHOPIN Nocturnes • Vol.2 (Nos. 11-20)
rec: London, 4-5.III.1960
Saga 5377 | ℗ 1974
CD10 | 38:56
GERSHWIN
• Piano Concerto in F major
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Hugo Rignold
• 3 Preludes for piano
rec: London, 24.VI.1960
Saga XID 5130 | ℗ 1962
(original LPs from Ernst Lumpe collection)
| Sergio Fiorentino (Napoli, 22 December 1927 — Napoli, 22 August 1998) |
