Dame Myra Hess (pianist)

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She was a British pianist most renowned for her interpretations of the Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann.
She made a well-known arrangement for piano of the chorale prelude "Jesu, bleibet meine Freude" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata No. 147 "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben".

Annotation last modified on 2007-11-22 14:50 UTC.

Discography

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YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1990Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos. 30 & 31 EtcDame Myra Hess1
1992Violin Concerto / Piano Trio no. 2Brahms; The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Joseph Szigeti, Pablo Casals, Dame Myra Hess1
2002Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 4 / Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 23 / Adagio in B minor / Rondo in D majorBeethoven, Mozart; Dame Myra Hess, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult1
2006Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.2 / Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor / Bach: Toccata in G major, BWV916Beethoven, Schumann, Bach; Dame Myra Hess, Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson, Sir Malcolm Sargent1
2017Bach: Prelude in G major, BWV 902 / English Suite no. 2 in A major, BWV 807 / Haydn: Piano Sonata no. 62 in E-flat major / Schumann: Carnaval, op. 9J. S. Bach, Haydn, Schumann; Dame Myra Hess1
—Myra Hess at Illionis Vol.3 & 1937 BroadcastDame Myra Hess1
—Piano ConcertosWolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Dame Myra Hess, Bruno Walter1

Album + Compilation

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1993Sextet no. 1 / Piano Trio no. 1Johannes Brahms; Isaac Stern, Alexander Schneider, Milton Katims, Milton Thomas, Pablo Casals, Madeline Foley, Dame Myra Hess51
1999Great Pianists of the 20th Century, Volume 45: Myra HessMyra Hess1

Album + Live

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1998Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3, Overture Coriolanus / Wagner: Siegfried's Rhine Journey from GötterdämmerungBeethoven, Wagner; Dame Myra Hess, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini1
2000Piano Concerto no. 5 / Piano Concerto no. 2Beethoven; Dame Myra Hess, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent1

EP

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
—Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring / Sonata no. 14 in G major, L. 387 / Intermezzo in A-flat, op. 76 no. 3 / Capriccio in B minor, op. 76 no. 2Bach, Scarlatti, Brahms; Myra Hess1

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