The legendary Georg Kreisler is remembered for his unparalleled political cabaret chansons ouevre, uncanny pianism, and inimitable performances. But that he also wrote classical music remains a little known fact. In the early 1950s at the start of his cabaret career in Manhatten, he composed, among other things, several works for piano solo. That these compositions exhibit the same traits as his otherwise distinctive artistic persona – nonconformist, audacious, unremittingly original – is as logical as it is self-evident. This compact disc couples the first recording of these early unknown piano works with the first recording of his last completed composition in 2011.
