Ervin Nyiregyhazi

Ervin Nyiregyházi in Performance
Live Recordings 1972-1982
Works by
Liszt, Brahms, Schubert
Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin
Debussy, Chopin and Rachmaninov
Digitally remastered in 2007
Music and Arts CD 1202
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CD No. 1: Liszt, Brahms, Scriabin, Grieg (76:28)
01 Liszt: Legendes: No. 1, "St. Francois d'Assise: la predication aux oiseaux" (13:06)
02 Liszt: Legendes: No. 2, "St. Francois de Paule marchant sur les flots" (9:39)
03 Liszt (arr. Nyiregyhazi): Excerpts from No. 5 ("Elizabeth") of the oratorio Die Legende von der heiligenElisabeth (7:23)
04 Liszt: Zwei KonzertetudenL No. 1, "Waldesrauschen" (5:56)
05 Liszt: Annees de pelerinage, deuxieme annee, Italie: No. 6, "Sonetto 123 Petrarca" (8:01)
06 Liszt: Annees de pelerinage, troisieme annee: No. 2, "Aux cypres de la Villa d'Este" (No. 1, 3/4) (7:47)
07 Liszt: Annees de pelerinage, premiere annee, Suisse: No. 2, "Au lac de Wallenstadt" (4:12)
08 Brahms: Intermezzo in E-flat Minor, Op. 118/No. 6 (6:23)
09 Scriabin: Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp Major, Op. 30 (two linked movements, 8:14)
10 Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 54: No. 4, "Notturno" (5:42)
CD No. 2: Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Schubert (74:51)
01 Tchaikovsky: Douze morceaux, Op. 40: No. 8, "Valse" in A-flat Major (5:37)
02 Tchaikovsky: Romance in F Minor, Op. 5 (7:22)
03 Debussy: Estampes: No. 1, "Pagodes" (6:25)
04 Debussy: La plus que lente (4:59)
05 Chopin: Mazurka in C-sharp Minor, Op. 6/No. 2 (4:19)
06 Chopin: Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 28/No. 10 ( :45)
07 Chopin: Mazurka in F Minor, Op. 63/No. 2 (2:37)
08 Chopin: Mazurka in B Minor, Op. 33/No. 4 (6:09)
09 Chopin: Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55/No. 1 (6:58)
10 Rachmaninov (arr. Nyiregyhazi): Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18, II: Adagio sostenuto (15:51)
11 Schubert (arr. Nyiregyhazi): "Der Wanderer" (6:55)
12 Schubert (arr. Nyiregyhazi): "Heidenroslein" (2:07)
13 bonus track - Cameron O'Day Macpherson: "Before the Dawn" from Deserted Garden (4:39)
Los Angeles Federal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Modest Altschuler
sources
CD No. 1, tracks 1, 2; CD No. 2, track 9
SOURCE: Old First Church, San Francisco, 6 May 1973
CD No. 1, tracks 3, 4, 5, 8
SOURCE: Home of Ronald Antonioli, Novato, California, 29 July 1973
CD No. 1, track 6; CD No. 2, tracks 5, 6, 7, 8
SOURCE: Century Club of California, San Francisco, 17 December 1972
CD No. 1, track 7; CD No. 2, track 10
SOURCE: Dai-ichi Seimei Hall, Tokyo, 21 January 1982
CD No. 1, tracks 9, 10; CD No. 2, tracks 1, 3, 4
SOURCE: Forest Hill neighborhood association clubhouse, San Francisco, 24 May 1973
CD No. 2, tracks 2, 12
SOURCE: Takasaki College of Music, Takasaki, Japan, 1 June 1980
CD No. 2, track 11
SOURCE: Takasaki College of Music, Takasaki, Japan, 31 May 1980
CD No. 2, track 13
SOURCE: Federal Music Project, Program No. 76, 1936
The first, Canadian edition of the Ervin Nyiregyhazi (b. Budapest, 1903 - d. Los Angeles, 1987) biography, authored byKevin Bazzana, was published in February 2007 by McClelland & Stewart.
Click here to reach the McClelland & Stewart page about Kevin Bazzana's Ervin Nyiregyhazi biography (Lost Genius: TheStory of a Forgotten Musical Maverick).
The award-winning author of Wondrous Strange, the critically acclaimed biography of Glenn Gould, explores the bizarre,untold life of another brilliant and eccentric musician.
The composer Arnold Schoenberg called him an “utterly extraordinary” pianist of “incredible originality and conviction,”yet today he is all but forgotten. Born in Budapest in 1903, Ervin Nyiregyházi (nyeer-edge-hah-zee) was a remarkableprodigy: at eight he performed at Buckingham Palace, and when he was thirteen a psychologist published a book about him.In his teens, his idiosyncratic, intensely Romantic playing electrified audiences and astounded critics in Europe andAmerica. But his adult career quickly foundered, and he was reduced to penury.
In 1928, he settled in Los Angeles, and eventually he withdrew from public life, preferring to spend his time quietlycomposing. Psychologically, he remained a child, and found the ordinary demands of daily life onerous — he struggled evento dress himself. He drank heavily, was insatiable sexually (he married ten times), and described himself as “a fortissimobastard,” yet such was his talent and charisma that he numbered among his friends and champions celebrities such as JackDempsey, Theodore Dreiser, Bela Lugosi and Gloria Swanson. Rediscovered in the 1970s, he enjoyed a brief, sensational andcontroversial renaissance before slipping back into obscurity. He died in 1987.
Lost Genius, the product of ten years’ research, is the first biography of Nyiregyházi, whose story is among themost fascinating — and bizarre — in twentieth-century music.
The U.S. edition is anticipated around September 1st, from Carroll & Graf (New York). A German edition, from Schott(Berlin), is expected for this fall.
about Kevin Bazzana
Kevin Bazzana holds a Ph.D. in music history from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of GlennGould: The Performer in the Work (1997) and Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould (2003), which wonthe Toronto Book Award and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and has been published in six languages. He lives in Brentwood Bay,B.C.