Chopin Waltz in G flat Op 70 No 1 Levitzki Rec 1928.wmv

Some Important Students of Alexander Michalowski
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David Dubal writes in his Art of the Piano, A student of Michalowski, Stojowski, and Dohnanyi. Mischa Levitski (1898-1941) had an international career playing in the Orient and Australia. Levitzki was a favorite with American audiences. He played a fairly small repertoire m a cool-headed, rather detached, yet Romantic style. He was at his best in miniatures. His playing is meticulous; one feels in listening to his recordings that he was groping for a more modern approach to the Romantic literature. He was a transitional pianist who remained a Romantic stylist. His rubato is always fascinating--- listen to his very slow reading of the Gluck-Sgambati "Melody" from Orfeo (one minute longer than Rachmaninoff's version , or his Chopin A-flat Ballade. Levitzki was always a curt but dashing Liszt player. The Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody shows some of the great octave playing of his time and. he was the first to record electrically, on 78s the Liszt E-flat Concerto. He recorded a few of his own delightful waltzes-bits of nostalgia tossed off by the pianist with a tongue-in-cheek nonchalance

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