Here is my third and final post collating the remarkable Chopin recordings of Polish pianist Maryla Jonas.
This 10-inch LP brings together five Nocturnes in February 1950 recordings from Columbia's 30th Street studio in New York. The results are just as sensitive and atmospheric as the two previous collections I have posted. Columbia's sound is good.
The drawing of Jonas on the cover is based on the photo at left. Without checking, I have the sense that it was unusual for Columbia to use a drawing of the artist on their covers at the time; naive cartoons were more common (cf.,
this cover for Barber's
Knoxville, Summer of 1915).
A more animated (but still apprehensive looking) Jonas is depicted below. Instead of Chopin, that seems to be Stravinsky looking over her shoulder, in Picasso's sketch.
LINK (newly remastered in ambient stereo, April 2025)
4 comments:
Wonderful to hear more from this artist. Many thanks Buster.
As fantastic as your previous posts with her. THX so much.
Danke schön!
third and final, eh? well, i've been warned. thank you for this & for the previous postings of interpretations by this artist; they are a great pleasure to hear. -a.v.
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