Maryla Jonas – The Maryla Jonas Story: Her Complete Piano Recordings (2017) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Maryla Jonas, a Polish-born concert pianist, made her U.S. debut at Carnegie Hall in February, 1946. As a newcomer, she received favorable reviews, but the next month Olin Downes, reviewing a recital before a crowded house in the same hall, wrote in The New York Times that “she has few equals as an interpreter among the leading pianists of today”. As a child prodigy, Jonas made her debut in Warsaw at the age of 9 and became a pupil of Ignacy Jan Paderewski. She won an International Chopin Prize in 1922 and the Beethoven Prize of Vienna the next year. She was in bombed-out Warsaw when it was captured by the Nazis, but escaped in 1940, a feat that was described later as “miraculous”. Walking day and night, she traveled 325 miles to the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin. From there, Jonas went to Rio de Janeiro, where her married sister, Mrs. Bertha Holin, then lived, and entered a sanitarium. Later she heard that her first husband, a noted criminologist, her parents and a brother had been killed in Poland. In Rio, Miss Jonas gave up playing for months. It has been said that her fellow countryman, Arthur Rubinstein, induced her to return to the piano. She toured South America to obtain funds to come to New York.

Almost five years after her debut at Carnegie Hall, Miss Jonas fainted in the wings of the same hall after leaving the stage part way through her performance of Schumann’s Carnaval. She recovered quickly and completed her program. Her illness forced her temporary retirement, but in December, 1956, she gave what was to be her last recital at Carnegie Hall. Maryla Jonas died on the 3rd of July, 1959 at her home of a rare blood disease that had hindered her career in recent years. Her age was 48.

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Bach, W F:
Capriccio for Keyboard in D minor
Casella:
Children’s Suite: IV, Bolero
Children’s Suite: XI, Galop Final
Chopin:
Mazurka in B flat major (1832)
Mazurka No. 49 in F minor, Op. 68 No. 4
Mazurka No. 43 in G minor, Op. 67 No. 2
Mazurka No. 19 in B minor, Op. 30 No. 2
Nocturne No. 19 in E minor, Op. 72 No. 1
Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post.
Waltz No. 11 in G flat major, Op. 70 No. 1
Waltz No. 13 in D flat major, Op. 70 No. 3
Polonaise No. 9 in B flat major, Op. 71 No. 2
Mazurka No. 48 in F major, Op. 68 No. 3
Mazurka in G major, WN26
Mazurka No. 35 in C minor, Op. 56 No. 3
Mazurka No. 29 in A flat major, Op. 41 No. 4
Mazurka No. 27 in E minor, Op. 41 No. 2
Mazurka No. 18 in C minor, Op. 30 No. 1
Mazurka No. 16 in A flat major, Op. 24 No. 3
Mazurka No. 50 in A minor ‘Notre Temps’
Mazurka No. 21 in C sharp minor, Op. 30 No. 4
Mazurka No. 11 in E minor, Op. 17 No. 2
Mazurka No. 14 in G minor, Op. 24 No. 1
Mazurka No. 13 in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4
Mazurka No. 12 in A flat major, Op.17 No.3
Mazurka No. 36 in A minor, Op. 59 No. 1
Mazurka No. 22 in G sharp minor, Op. 33 No. 1
Mazurka No. 45 in A minor, Op. 67 No. 4
Mazurka No. 41 in C sharp minor, Op. 63 No. 3
Mazurka No. 9 in C major, Op. 7 No. 5
Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
Nocturne No. 9 in B major, Op. 32 No. 1
Nocturne No. 6 in G minor, Op. 15 No. 3
Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1
Nocturne No. 15 in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1
Polonaise No. 1 in C sharp minor, Op. 26 No. 1
Étude Op. 10 No. 6 in E flat minor ‘Lacrimosa’
Étude Op. 25 No. 2 in F minor
Waltz No. 10 in B minor, Op. 69 No. 2
Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57
Impromptu No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 29
Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2
Dussek, J L:
La Consolation, Op. 62
Handel:
Keyboard Suite, HWV 432 in G minor: Passacaille
Liszt:
Ständchen – Horch, horch! die Lerch (No. 9 from Zwölf Lieder von Franz Schubert, S558)
Mendelssohn:
Song without Words, Op. 62 No. 1 in G major ‘May Breezes’
Song without Words, Op. 102 No. 4 in G minor
Mozart:
Rondo alla Turca from Piano Sonata No. 11, K331
Rossi, S:
Andantino in C minor
Schubert:
Impromptu in G flat major, D899 No. 3
Schumann:
Kinderszenen, Op. 15
Thomson, V:
Ten Etudes: Music Box Lullaby in E-flat major
Villa-Lobos:
The Broken Little Music-Box

Tracklist

CD1
01. Mazurka in B-Flat Major
02. Mazurka in F Minor, Op. 68 No. 4
03. Mazurka in G Minor, Op. 67 No. 2
04. Mazurka in B Minor, Op. 30 No. 2
05. Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1
06. Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor, Op. Posth.
07. Waltz in G-Flat Major, Op. 70 No. 1
08. Waltz in D-Flat Major, Op. 70 No. 3
09. Polonaise in B-Flat Major, Op. 71 No. 2
10. Mazurka in F Major, Op. 68 No. 3
11. Mazurka in G Major
12. Mazurka in C Minor, Op. 56 No. 3
13. Mazurka in E Minor, Op. 41 No. 1
14. Mazurka in A-Flat Major, Op. 41 No. 3
15. Mazurka in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 1
16. Mazurka in A-Flat Major, Op. 24 No. 3
17. Mazurka in A Minor, Op. Posth. “Notre temps”
18. Mazurka in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30 No. 4

CD2
01. Mazurka in E Minor, Op. 17 No. 2
02. Mazurka in G Minor, Op. 24 No. 1
03. Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 17 No. 4
04. Mazurka in A-Flat Major, Op. 17 No. 3
05. Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 59 No. 1
06. Mazurka in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 33 No. 1
07. Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 67 No. 4
08. Mazurka in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 63 No. 3
09. Mazurka in C Major, Op. 7 No. 5
10. Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2
11. Nocturne in B Major, Op. 32 No. 1
12. Nocturne in G Minor, Op. 15 No. 3
13. Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No. 1
14. Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1

CD3
01. Polonaise in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 26 No. 1
02. Étude in E-Flat Minor, Op. 10 No. 6
03. Étude in F Minor, Op. 25 No. 2 “Les abeilles”
04. Waltz in B Minor, Op. 69 No. 2
05. Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57
06. Impromptu No. 1, Op. 29
07. Waltz in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64 No. 2

CD4
01. Harpsichord Suite in G Minor, HWV 432: Passacaglia
02. La Consolation, Op. 62
03. Capriccio in D Minor
04. Piano Sonata in A Major, K. 331: Alla turca. Allegretto “Turkish March”
05. Schwanengesang, S. 560: Ständchen
06. 10 Etudes for Piano: For the Weaker Fingers “Music Box Lullaby”
07. Song without Words in G Major, Op. 62 No. 1 “May Breezes”
08. Song without Words in G Minor, Op. 102 No. 4
09. Music Box in G Major
10. 11 Pezzi infantili: IV. Bolero-XI. Galop Final
11. Andantino in G Major
12. Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin: Menuets in G Minor & G Major
13. Impromptu in G-Flat Major, D. 899 No. 3
14. Originaltänze, D. 365 & Valse No. 27, D. 779
15. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 1. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen
16. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 2. Kuriose Geschichte
17. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 3. Haschemann
18. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 4. Bittendes Kind
19. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 5. Glückes genug
20. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 6. Wichtige Begebenheit
21. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 7. Träumerei
22. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 8. Am Kamin
23. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 9. Ritter von Steckenpferd
24. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 10. Fast zu ernst
25. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 11. Fürchtenmachen
26. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 12. Kind im Einschlummern
27. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 13. Der Dichter spricht