Description

EDWARD ISAACS (MANCHESTER, 1881-07-14 – MANCHESTER, 1953-07-31)

 

 

 

 

The son of Isaac Asher Isaacs, Secretay to the local synagogue and his wife Annie.

Edward first studied music at The Royal Manchester College and subsequently in Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig. He was principally a piano recitalist. For the last thirty years of his life he was Musical Director of the Manchester Mid-Day Concerts, He was totally blind from 1924 though he continued to perform.

Orchestral

Piano Concerto  1907 The music for this is lost. Only an off air recording from a November 1952 broadcast exists.

 

Chamber

Piano Trio  1909

Violin sonata  1910

Piano

Two caprice – etudes  Op.2  1898

Four studies  1900

Six miniatures  1904

Arabesque on a Czerny study  1917

Caprice on a country dance by Gretry  1917

Prelude in E minor on a Hiller chorale  1925

‘Moonlight’  reverie Op.8/1  Siciliano  Op.8/3

Ritornello

Scherzando

Wife:

Amy Florence Jordan  1884-1970

Children:

Leonard Isaacs 1909-1990

Ruth Isaacs 1913-1990 Married to Edward Kirby

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

October [& December] 1926: London, England (Studio Recordings

– Columbia Graphophone Company –

• Bach: French Suite No.5 in G major, BWV 816

o  I. Allemande

o  II. Courante

o  VII. Gigue

➢ Side 1/2 | (1926-10-25) | WA 4328-2 | M

Side 2/2 | (1926-10-25) | WA 4329-1 | M

– Regal G 8894 & 8837 -> APR 6034

• Händel: Fantasy in C major, HWV 490

➢ Side 1/1 | (1926-10-25) | WA 4330-1 | M

– Regal G 8776 -> APR 6034

• Händel: Air & Variations from Suite No.5 in E major, HWV 430 (The Harmonious Blacksmith)

➢ Side 1/1 | (1926-10-25) | WA 4331-3 | M

– Regal G 8776 -> APR 6034

• Liszt/Liszt: Liebestraum No.3 in A-flat major, S.541 No.3

➢ Side 1/2 | (1926-10-25) | WA 4334-1 | M

Side 2/2 | (1926-10-27) | WA 4335-2 | M

– Regal G 8789 -> APR 6034

• Chopin: Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op.64 No.2

➢ Side 1/1 | (1926-10-25) | WA 4336-1 | M

– Regal G 8837 -> APR 6034

• Chopin: Waltz in E minor, Op.posth (B.56)

➢ Side 1/1 | (1926-10-25) | WA 4337-2 | M

– Regal G 8894 -> APR 6034

• Chopin: Waltz in A minor, Op.34 No.2

➢ Side 1/1 | (1926-12-17) | WAX 2041-4 | M

– Regal G 1045 -> APR 6034

• Chopin: Waltz in D-flat major, Op.64 No.1 (Minute Waltz)
• Chopin: Waltz in D-flat major, Op.70 No.3

➢ Side 1/1 | (1926-10-25) | WAX 2042-1 | M

– Regal G 1042 -> APR 6034

• Schubert: Moment Musical in F minor, D.780 No.3 (Op.94 No.3)
• Tchaikovsky: Humoresque, Op.10 No.2

➢ Side 1/1 | (1926-10-27) | WAX 2061-2 | M

– Regal G 1042 -> APR 6034

• Chopin/Liszt: My Joys, Op.74 No.12 (S.480 No.5)

➢ Side 1/1 | (1926-12-17) | WAX 2062-4 | M

– Regal G 1045 -> APR 6034

 

November 1928: London, England (Studio Recordings | Mono)

– Columbia Graphophone Company –

• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor, Op.13 (Grande Sonate Pathétique)

➢ Side 1/4 | (1928-11-20) | WAX 4327-2 | M

Side 2/4 | (1928-11-20) | WAX 4328-2 | M

Side 3/4 | (1928-11-20) | WAX 4329-1 | M

Side 4/4 | (1928-11-20) | WAX 4330-2 | M

– Regal G 1061/62 -> APR 6034

• Chopin: Bolero in C major, Op.19

➢ Side 1/2 | (1928-11-20) | WA 8126-1 | M

Side 2/2 | (1928-11-20) | WA 8127-1 | M

– Regal G 9228 -> APR 6034