Baroque Music played by 19th-century born Pianists

Here we see the Baroque repertoire of some important pianists born in the 19th century. It would not be right to refer to a few pianists here as "romantic", but my main intention here is to emphasize that they were born in the Romantic era. I didn't include Bach because historical pianists often played Bach. But here are composers that historical pianists played less frequently, I wanted to compile these rare records.
Baroque period composers included in the video: Henry Purcell, George Frideric Handel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, François Couperin, Louis-Claude Daquin, Domenico Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi, Orlando Gibbons, Carl Heinrich Graun.
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00:00 Alfred Cortot - Purcell, Minuet (1948)
* From Harpsichord Suite No 1, arr. Henderson.
02:12 Edouard Risler - Rameau, "Tambourin" (1917)
03:16 Lazare-Lévy - Couperin, Les "Lis naissans" (1950)
04:51 Victor Staub - Daquin, "Le coucou" (1927)
06:15 Moriz Rosenthal - Handel, "Harmonious Blacksmith" (1939)
10:56 Harold Bauer - Couperin, "Le carillon de Cythère" (1939)
13:54 Raoul Pugno - Handel, "Gavotte in five variations" (1903)
* From suite in G Major No.14
16:37 Ignaz Friedman - Scarlatti, "Pastorale" (1926)
* Arr. Tausing
19:25 Josef Hofmann - Scarlatti, "Capriccio" (1923)
* Arr. Tausing
21:25 Guiomar Novaes - Handel, Serse Largo
* I couldn't find the recording date
27:09 Wilhelm Kempff - Handel Minuet (1962)
* From HWV 434, arr. Kempff
30:45 Myra Hess - Purcel, Saraband (1943)
* From Harpsichord Suite No 1, arr. Hess
33:23 Edwin Fischer - Marcello, Adagio (1933)
* transcr. Bach and arr. Fischer)
36:45 Samuel Feinberg - Vivaldi (1929)
* From Vivaldi Concerto Op. 3 No. 8, transcr. Bach (BWV 593) and arr. Feinberg
40:28 Yvonne Lefébure - Vivaldi, Sicilienne (1979)
* From Vivaldi Concerto Op. 3 No. 11, transcr. Bach (BWV 596) and arr. Lefébure
43:10 Marcelle Meyer - Couperin, "Les barricades mystérieuses" (1954)
44:45 Robert Casadesus - Rameau, "Les Sauvages" (1952)
46:36 Benno Moiseiwitsch - Rameau, "Gavotte variée" (1919)
50:37 Sergei Rachmaninoff - Daquin, "Le coucou" (1920)
52:32 Bela Bartok - Scarlatti, Sonata L.50 / K 70 (1929)
54:12 Egon Petri - Scarlatti, Sonata L.23 (1940s)
57:03 Walter Gieseking - Handel, Prelude (1951)
* From HWV 430
58:34 Percy Grainger - Handel, Hornpipe (1924)
* From Water Music Suite No. 1 (arr. Grainger)
1:00:52 Clara Haskil - Graun, Gigue (1936)
1:04:03 Harriet Cohen - Gibbons, "Ayre" and "Alman" (1947)
1:06:16 Wilhelm Backhaus - Scarlatti, Sonata L.188 (1912)
1:08:13 Ignacy Jan Paderewski - Couperin, "La bandoline" (1914)

[@arthurhogan3047]

To say that, Ozan is a genius for compiling all of this seeming out of reach historical stuff. Is putting it mildly.

[@Alexa-jk3oh]

40 seconds in and my ears are already blessed by this exquisite recording from Cortot. Thank you for sharing :’)

[@pianobern69]

It's such a shame how Baroque music is barely performed on the piano. A ridiculous amount of the best written keyboard music stems from the Baroque era

[@gullivior]

A very interesting and original compilation! (Hofmann's scales are out of this world! unbelievable...)

[@OzanFabienGuvener]

Thank you!

[@ThePianoFiles]

Wonderful, as always!

[@walterprossnitz3471]

This is one of the most fascinating in a series of fabulous videos!!

[@alombredeslava2468]

Très beau travail formidablement intéressant.

[@en-blanc-et-noir]

I rarely clicked so fast :DDDD great idea!!! Top notch compilation!

[@kahito1234567]

Wow! Such an incredible compilation video. What a gem. Oldies are the best.

[@WarinPartita6]

Fantastic compilation. Big thanks.

[@JDT32123]

What a wonderful concept! 😄 Excellent video as always!

[@stephenhunt8756]

Fascinating.Many of the pianists sound as if they've practised on harpsichords. There's a lot of harpsichord style and sound here. Thankyou to the uploader for a very unusual programme indeed.

[@elenalivsjits347]

Fabulous! Thank you 🙏

[@emilgilels]

Another great idea for a video, one that is again beautifully realized. And another opportunity to offer sincere thanks to its creator. :-) I'll just mention that one of the pianists you feature, Marcelle Meyer, recorded quite a bit of Baroque music, and that her recordings of this music are wonderful. Anyone not yet familiar with her performances can find them on KZbin.

[@OzanFabienGuvener]

Definitely, anyone who likes Baroque interpretations in the video should listen to Meyer. I think Meyer has the largest Baroque repertoire among pianists born in the 19th century. Her Rameau, Couperin, Bach, Scarlatti interpretations are beautiful!

[@marcomauricio]

O Haendel de Guiomar Novaes ficou majestoso! Guiomar Novaes' Haendel is maggestic! Tks for shearing it. 🥲

[@saltburner2]

Three cheers for mentioning Guiomar Novaes. My first LP of the Grieg concerto/Nights in the Gardens of Spain was by her, and I wish I had it still.

[@bvbwv3]

Ozan Fabien Guvener does it again! Three cheers! And many more thanks for this treasure from the past.

[@zavilov]

No one after listening to this can say baroque tempi were not also crazy fast in the past also. Wonderful compilation.

[@michieldpiano]

Fantastic compilation

[@AllaBreve3]

Formidable et magnifique compilations ! Merci à vous infiniment MERCI ! Mon mari Jean MICAULT, élève de CORTOT (1924-2021) disait toujours qu'il ne fallait pas oublier tous ces grands artistes et les faire découvrir absolument aux jeunes pianistes.

[@OzanFabienGuvener]

Merci aussi. Monsieur MICAULT est un pianiste que j'aime beaucoup et un pianiste précieux qui perpétue la tradition de Cortot. Je suis heureux d'entendre ce commentaire de votre part. Merci encore !

[@saltburner2]

Another excellent compilation, thanks!

[@jinwoobae7555]

Best youtube channel.

[@OzanFabienGuvener]

Thank you!

[@tchaivorakfauresohnsieg9532]

Trueee, its the best channel regarding musical historical 19th century oriented document however you put it, I'm just binge watching this channel and literally lost my sense of time

[@InstitutoPianoBrasileiro]

Amazing work. The Guiomar Handel is a piano roll from 1919.

[@OzanFabienGuvener]

Thank you!

[@madamecoeurdemontespan1712]

@Ozan Fabien Guvener Dear Ozan, what a gem amidst the deep blue sea of baroque tempi music love! From 🦋 M.with love.

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Thank you Mr. Guvener. Thank you. What do we suddely hear ... ? Baroque music ??? What is this strange name ? Out of which world is coming this weird denomination ? Just like a ghetto. I shall say it very clearly. Calling some music "baroque" is saying this : "forbidden to play this music with emotion". Remembering the nazi time in public gardens : "Juden hier unerwünscht" (not for jews) What a pity, what a sorrow ..... But here, in your wonderful compilation, free pianists playing beautiful music, with their hearts, intelligence, rubatos, delicacy, flowers out of their fingers .... What a blessing. I forget my time, which I hate with utter passion. This deadly time where you must play "baroque" music as it would have been written by some robots. Goodbye 2023, decadence and stupidity, and return to the golden Era ....

[@osmancanizin4423]

Wowww, it was so important and joyful video!

[@kniazigor2276]

Extraordinaire compilation !!!! BRAVISSIMO !!!

[@steveegallo3384]

Clara Haskill.....OMyGod.....Breathtaking. BRAVA, Maestra....from Mexico City!

[@jeanjoubert3074]

The best piano video on KZbin. And I have seen countless KZbin piano videos. And it is not even a video but just audio!! Albeit that the static photos contribute to this achievement.

[@OzanFabienGuvener]

Thank you very much!

[@RollaArtis]

Also the Liszt pupil Otto Neitzel (6 July 1852 - 10 March 1920) playing Couperin. See here -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6K5YoeLftKZl68

[@OzanFabienGuvener]

I didn't know that!

[@pieroalessandrocassano8287]

We can never thank you enough for the gems of piano roll we thought were lost...expecially that of Liszt 's pupil

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

52:33 ... and Bela Bartok playing Scarlatti ..... this time, it's magic .... ......... this unescapable beauty ... Mr. Guvener, for the next time, because of your access to the other world, I ask you kindly to bring us Robert Schumann playing the Diabelli Variations ? Ok ? (and if possible, Skrjabin in the second book of the WTK ...)

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

36:45 and Feinberg, "my" beloved Feinberg, this ruling God over any intelligent emotion, the widest sonority in known cosmos ....

[@paulgalbraith8032]

Excellent idea! Any chance of adding something from Youra Guller? The Bach/Liszt organ works she recorded would probably be too long, unfortunately. But there are some shorter Baroque pieces from Nimbus. Also Alexander Jocheles - Bach BWV997 Prelude, for instance..

[@OzanFabienGuvener]

Thank you! I did not include Bach in this video. Back then, Bach was still played, but other Baroque composers were rarely played, so I wanted to compile them. I'm thinking of a separate video for Bach. Youra Guller's Couperin "La Fleuire ou la Tendré Nanette" recording was included in the first version of the video. But I had to remove some recordings because the video was blocked due to copyright. That's why I took out some records and published them like that. In the first version of the video, there would be Baroque recordings of pianists such as Mark Hambourg.

[@paulgalbraith8032]

Understood! Looking forward to the Bach!

[@grahamcracker659]

this is very scare, take cat to basement now put on a helmet

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

19:25 .... and Hofmann here ......

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

1:00:53 and Haskil .. this s really crazy ....

[@jorislejeune]

fantastic. I have written an article that focusses on Diémer, could you tell me where you found the picture? Thank you.

[@OzanFabienGuvener]

I actually found this on a website while searching on Staub, I don't know the original source. This was the link: moldova.europalibera.org/a/muzică-și-memorie-înregistrările-rare-și-destinul-lui-victor-staub-și-lazare-lévy/29768160.html I'd love to read your Diemer article when it comes out!

[@TomD67]

What is the story behind the group photos of all these pianists?

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Just a little hint : Eduard Erdmann playing Haendel.

[@OzanFabienGuvener]

Ah! Definitely an important shortcoming, I love Eduardman so much, I'm sorry I forgot.

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

@@OzanFabienGuvener Don't worry my friend, your selection was already so brilliant !

[@DynastieArtistique]

Feinberg is simply the greatest

[@noshirm6285]

Which instrument is Friedman playing? 😮

[@OzanFabienGuvener]

I was wondering about this as well. There is information in Allan Evans' book 'Ignaz Friedman: Romantic Master Pianist': "performed on a piano with tacks stuck onto the mamers"

[@noshirm6285]

@@OzanFabienGuvener Ah. Okay. 🤗

[@culturehorse]

Very fine but.. Where is Godowskyz Renaissance suite by Simon Barere.. 🤔🙄

[@OzanFabienGuvener]

I thought of putting this record on, but the Godowksy adaptation is unfortunately far from the baroque spirit of the work. It contains a lot of Godowsky's modern passages. And I thought it would be outside of the video's concept for that reason.

[@saltburner2]

@@OzanFabienGuvener Wise decision!