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RICHARD EPSTEIN (VIENNA, AUSTRIA, JANUARY 26, 1869 – NEW YORK, USA, AUGUST 1, 1919)

 

 

 

 

His father was the famous pianist and pedagogue Julius Epstein (1832-1926), the teacher of Gustav Mahler. He was a pupil at the Vienna Conservatory, of his father and R. Fuchs (composition). He was a professor of piano at the Vienna Conservatory, then lived in London (1904–1914) and later in New York. He excelled as an accompanist, in which capacity he was frequently heard with such artists as Sembrich, Fremstad, Culp, Gerhardt, Destinn, Elman, and Kreisler; and as assisting artist with famous chamber music organizations, including the Joachim, Rose, and Bohemian Quartets.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

2254 PUCCINI – Selections from the Opera “Madama Butterfly”

2255 PUCCINI – Selections from the Opera “La Boheme”

2256 Händel – Messias (The Messiah) [1742  72], Teil 1 No. 9 The People That Walked In Darkness a. d. Oratorium.

2258 ELGAR – The Angels’ Farewell from the Oratorio “Dream of Gerontius”

2259 ELGAR – Prelude to the Oratorio “The Dream of Gerontius”

2260 SAINT-SAENS – My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice from “Samson et Dalila”

2261 Wiener Walzer

2268 Thurban – Billy Possum, Two-Step.

2269 BEETHOVEN – German Dance No. 1, C