Egon Petri plays Alkan Symphony for Solo Piano

If you wish to support The Piano Files, please consider membership at my Patreon page: ​ Egon Petri was born on this day in 1881. The great Busoni disciple recorded a significant number of 78s and LPs but many of these do not show him at his best. However, some private recordings capture the intensity, passion, and grandeur of which he was truly capable. This feature on my website includes the present recording and a number of others that I consider to be some of the finest examples of his artistry: Among the greatest recordings of this artist is this 1950s practice session of Alkan’s treacherous Symphony for Solo Piano that was recorded in a Mills College practice room by his pupil Daniell Revenaugh, who told me about the experience when I met him about a decade ago. Revenaugh had to pull the microphone away from the piano partway through the first movement because the levels were peaking due