Skip to product information
1 of 2

Cherkassky: Complete 78 RPM Recordings [3 CDs]

Cherkassky: Complete 78 RPM Recordings [3 CDs]

Regular price $32.99 USD
Regular price $32.99 USD Sale price $32.99 USD
Sale Currently Out Of Stock
Shipping calculated at checkout.

In his later years, SHURA CHERKASSKY (1909–1995) was regarded as one of the last ‘Romantics’ – a throwback to the so-called ‘golden age’ of pianism in the first decades of the 20th century. As a pupil of Josef Hofmann, he had an impeccable pedigree, but we tend to forget his long career meant he was already playing and recording in that ‘golden age’. Here then are these early recordings, complete for the first time, starting in the acoustic era with the young prodigy’s 1923 Victor discs. Much of the repertoire is unique in his discography, including his only recording of chamber music – the Rachmaninov cello sonata. The Tchaikovsky 2nd Concerto, Cherkassky’s earliest concerto recording, has never previously been reissued and reveals the 36-year-old artist at his virtuoso peak.

View full details


Product Description:


  • Release Date: November 03, 2023


  • UPC: 5024709173167


  • Catalog Number: APR7316


  • Label: APR


  • Number of Discs: 3


  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Cecile Chaminade, Shura Cherkassky, Frederic Chopin, Mikhail Glinka, Morton Gould, Aram Khachaturian, Anatoly Liadov, Franz Liszt, Manna-Zucca, Nikolai Medtner, Felix Mendelssohn, Francois Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Vladimir Rebikov, Camille Saint-Saens, Alexander Scriabin, Dmitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky


  • Conductor: Jacques Rachmilovich


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra


  • Performer: Shura Cherkassky, Marcel Hubert