An episode exploring the early recordings of the Hungarian pianist Geza Anda. While celebrated for his 1960s recording of Mozart's complete Piano Concertos (the first complete cycle on disc), Anda in his early years played a very different range of repertoire with a rather different approach. This program features recordings made between 1943 and 1956, in commercial recording studios, radio broadcast settings, and in concert, all of which demonstrate Anda's remarkably polished sonority, deft articulation, remarkable rhythmic pulse, and creative musicality.

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    • Key: Am
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