Felix Blumenfeld - All Etudes Complete (Various recordings)

Felix Blumenfeld complete all etudes,

Chapters:
1. 00:00 Etude from 4 morceaux op 2 no 1, A major/ Daniel Blumenthal
2. 2:06 3 etudes op 3 no 1, D flat major / Daniel Blumenthal
3. 7:17 3 etudes op 3 no 2, E minor/ Daniel Blumenthal
4. 9:19 3 etudes op 3 no 3, A major/ Daniel Blumenthal
5. 12:04 Valse etude op 4, F major/ Daniel Blumenthal
6. 16:55 Sur mer etude op 14, G minor/ Vladimir Belov*
7. 22:02 Etude de Concert op 24, F sharp minor/ Vladimir Belov*
8. 27:00 Etude de Concert/ Alexander Zhilinsky*
9. 31:22 Etude de Concert/ Maria Alberta Siloti*
10. 36:20 2 Etude-fantasie op 25 no 1, G minor/ Daniel Blumenthal
11. 44:17 2 Etude-fantasie op 25 no 2, E flat minor/ Daniel Blumenthal
12. 50:46 2 Etude op 29 no 1 D Minor/ Daniel Blumenthal
13. 52:11 2 Etude op 29 no 2 A major/ Daniel Blumenthal
14. 53:54 Etude for left hand alone op 36 A flat major/ Vladimir Belov*
15. 58:51 Etude for left hand/ Simon Barere*
16. 1:02:50 4 Etudes op 44 no 1, G flat major/ Daniel Blumenthal
17. 1:04:26 4 Etudes op 44 no 2, D flat major/ Daniel Blumenthal
18. 1:07:44 4 Etudes op 44 no 3, E minor/ Daniel Blumenthal
19. 1:11:27 4 Etudes op 44 no 4, A minor/ Daniel Blumenthal
20. 1:13:38 Troisieme Etude fantasie op 48, F minor/ Daniel Blumenthal
21. 1:22:37 Etude in F sharp major op 54/ Daniel Blumenthal


Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (1863-1931) was a russian/soviet composer, pianist and conductor. He was born in Kirovograd (in present-day Ukraine), Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire, the son of Mikhail Frantsevich Blumenfeld, of Austrian Jewish origin, and the Maria Szymanowska. Blumenfeld studied with Gustav Neuhaus, married to his older sister. Then he studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and piano under Fedor Stein between 1881 and 1885. He then taught piano there himself from 1885 until 1918, whilst also serving as conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre until 1911.

The Mariinsky saw the premieres of the operas composed by his mentor Rimsky-Korsakov. He was also the conductor at the Russian premiere of Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde.

In 1908, he conducted the Paris premiere of Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov.

From 1918 to 1922, he was the director of the Music-drama school of Mykola Lysenko in Kiev, where, amongst others, Vladimir Horowitz was a pupil in his masterclasses. He returned to the Moscow Conservatory in 1922, teaching there until his death. Other famous pupils of his include Simon Barere, Maria Yudina, Nathan Perelman, Vladimir Belov, Anatole Kitain and Maria Grinberg. He died in Moscow.

As a pianist, he played many of the compositions of his Russian contemporaries. His own compositions, which showed the influence of Frédéric Chopin and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, include a symphony, numerous pieces for solo piano, an Allegro de Concert for piano and orchestra, and lieder. His virtuoso pieces for piano in particular have enjoyed something of a renaissance in recent years.

He was the uncle of Heinrich Neuhaus and first cousin, once removed of Karol Szymanowski (Felix's father and Karol's father, Stanislaw Szymanowski, were cousins).