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2008-00981-5

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1955-07-19/1968

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Sound recording containing a compilation of classical piano music performed by Neil Chotem. The first work is from the concluding portion of the 19 July 1955 edition of the radio series Les Concerts du Chalet, featuring the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Milton Katims in a performance of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, for piano and orchestra, opus 43 (comp. Serge Rachmaninoff), with Chotem as piano soloist. The second work is from a 1968 edition of the radio series Solo featuring a performance by Chotem of Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, for solo piano, opus 24 (comp. Johannes Brahms); this is followed by an excerpt from Intermezzo in A Major, for solo piano (comp. Brahms), used as as a play-out to complete the programme's time slot. The music and performers in both radio series are announced by host John Trethewey. <55mn 17s>

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