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Now playing, CD 87:
Frédéric Chopin 
– Waltz for Piano in E minor B.56
– Waltz for Piano in E flat major B.62 Op.18 "Grande valse brillante"
– 3 Waltzes for Piano Op.34
– Waltz for Piano in A flat major B.131 Op.42 "Grande Valse"
– 3 Waltzes for Piano B.164 Op.64
– 2 Waltzes for Piano Op.69
– 3 Waltzes for Piano Op.70
— Arthur Rubinstein (piano) (RCA Victor Red Seal Dynagroove Recording / Sony Music)

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Now playing, CD 89:
Arthur Rubinstein – A French Program (RCA Victor Red Seal Dynagroove Recording / Sony Music)
Maurice Ravel 
– Valses nobles et sentimentales
– Miroirs: La vallée des cloches
Francis Poulenc 
– Mouvements perpétuels (3)
– 3 Intermezzi for Piano: No.2 in D flat major
– 3 Intermezzi for Piano: No.3 in A flat major
Gabriel Fauré 
– Nocturne for Piano No.3 in A flat major Op.33/3
Emmanuel Chabrier 
– Pièces pittoresques (10) for Piano: No.10 Scherzo-valse
Arthur Rubinstein (piano) 

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More music on Cristofori instruments - simply great in all respects:

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The original instruments are no longer playable, but Kerstin Schwarz makes meticulous reconstructions of every detail - see her website for information: http://www.animus-cristofori.com/en/

This is the type of recording that makes me ask myself "who the hell wrote this piece" - and the answers are always a surprise.The history of keyboard music in the 17th and 18th centuries is much more complex and varified as most people think, and full of fascinating discoveries, especially among the composers coined as "pre-classical" - a totally unapropriate label. 

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And now, the first recording of a type of instrument that had to be reconstructed from the surviving two copies Cristofori built, combining the string length of two 8" harpsichord  registers with the compact build of a spinet - a beautiful looking and unique sounding instrument!

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Me, too, just got the last two volumes missing in my collection along with the Handel disc.

This is the kind of project that makes me wonder how little German harpsichordists care for the legacy of their own country. During the last twenty years, the majority of neglected German keyboard music of the 17th and 18th centuries was recorded by Italian or American harpsichordists.

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