RICHARD EPSTEIN (VIENNA, AUSTRIA JANUARY 26,
1869 – NEW YORK, USA AUGUST 1, 1919)
His father was the famous
pianist and pedagogue Julius Epstein (1832-1926), the teacher of Gustav Mahler.
He was a pupil at the Vienna Conservatory, of his father and R. Fuchs
(composition). He was a professor of piano at the Vienna Conservatory, then
lived in London (1904–1914) and later in New York. He excelled as an
accompanist, in which capacity he was frequently heard with such artists as
Sembrich, Fremstad, Culp, Gerhardt, Destinn, Elman, and Kreisler; and as
assisting artist with famous chamber music organizations, including the
Joachim, Rose, and Bohemian Quartets.
TRACKLIST
2254 PUCCINI – Selections from the Opera
“Madama Butterfly”
2255 PUCCINI – Selections from the Opera “La
Boheme”
2256 Händel – Messias (The Messiah) [1742 72], Teil 1 No. 9 The People That Walked In
Darkness a. d. Oratorium.
2258 ELGAR – The Angels’ Farewell from the
Oratorio “Dream of Gerontius”
2259 ELGAR – Prelude to the Oratorio “The Dream
of Gerontius”
2260 SAINT-SAENS – My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice
from “Samson et Dalila”
2261 Wiener Walzer
2268 Thurban – Billy Possum, Two-Step.
2269 BEETHOVEN – German Dance No. 1, C
