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Chapter 21 - The Pianist in the Recording Studio: Reimagining Interpretation

from Part IV - Performance and Performers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2020

Graham Griffiths
Affiliation:
City, University of London
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On 16 February 1938, Igor Stravinsky and his son, Soulima, recorded Mozart’s Fugue in C minor for Two Pianos K. 426.1 Lasting less than five minutes, the performance filled out the sixth side of Columbia’s album featuring Stravinsky’s Concerto for Two Solo Pianos (1932; 1934/5). It is a singular disc, the only studio recording of Stravinsky playing the music of someone other than himself. Yet its unique existence is mostly ignored or disregarded. Tim Page, in his liner notes from 2003, focused his attention on the Concerto and mentions, dismissively, the Mozart Fugue – ‘thrown in for good measure’.2 Scholars looking at Stravinsky’s performances tend to focus on his role as a conductor, interpreting his own music. This is not surprising given the preponderance of recordings with Stravinsky conducting Stravinsky and the predisposition of scholars to focus on the compositions of artists rather than their identities as performers.

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Stravinsky in Context , pp. 187 - 194
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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