Ervin Nyiregyházi

SDC Legendz Pianistz
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I should also add that almost all dates for Nyiregyhazi’s recordings have been disputed, and I was clearly off with those 20 private tapes. 12, is probably closer to the actual number (again, I don’t have everything that’s around with him).

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Ervin Nyiregyházi

Commercial & non-commercial recordings in chronological order

Current EN-number: 007 (C003)
(2013-04-20)

EN-C#001. 1937(?): Los Angeles, California (Studio Recordings)

  • ? -
    • McPherson: 2nd mvt from Piano Concerto No.2 (The Deserted Garden)

  • Modest Altschuler / Los Angeles Federal Symphony Orchestra
     ∞ | (1937?) | ?-? | R

  • Test Pressing -> Private CD-R

  • This was probably recorded for use as a movie soundtrack. The location has been inferred from the name of the orchestra.

EN#002. December 17, 1972: Century Club, San Francisco, California (Audience Recording | FLAC)

• Brahms: Piano Sonata No.3 in F minor, Op.5

• Liszt: Aux cyprès de la Villa d’Este (Thrénodie I), S.163 No.2 (from Années de Pèlerinage III)
• Liszt: Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este, S.163 No.4 (from Années de Pèlerinage III)
• Liszt: Eglogue, S.160 No.7 (from Années de Pèlerinage I)
• Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No.1, S.514

Encores:
• Chopin: Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op.6 No.2
• Chopin: Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op.28 No.10
• Chopin: Mazurka in F minor, Op.63 No.2
• Chopin: Mazurka in B minor, Op.33 No.4

  • Brahms’ Op.118 No.6 and Debussy’s Pagodes might have been played as the final encores (at least one collector list them).

EN#003. July 29, 1973: Home of Ronald Antonioli, Novato, California (Audience Recording | FLAC)

  • Private Recital -
    • Brahms: Intermezzo in E-flat minor, Op.118 No.6
    • Debussy: Pagodes (from Estampes)
    • Liszt: Tarantella, S.162 No.3 (from Venezia e Napoli)
    • Liszt: Au lac de Wallenstadt, S.160 No.2 (from Années de Pèlerinage I)
    • Liszt: Concert Etude in A-flat major, S.145 No.1 (Waldesrauschen)

• Liszt: Sonetto 123 del Petrarca, S.161 No.6 (from Années de Pèlerinage II)
• Liszt: Il Penseroso, S.161 No.2 (from Années de Pèlerinage II)
• Liszt: Après une lecture du Dante (Fantasia, quasi Sonata), S.161 No.7 (from Années de Pèlerinage II)

Encores:
• Liszt: Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este, S.163 No.4 (from Années de Pèlerinage III) [only part recorded]
• Brahms: Ballade in G minor, Op.118 No.3
• Leschetizky: Etude Héroïque, Op.48 No.3

EN#004. November 6, 1973: Location Unknown (Audience Recording | FLAC)

• Schubert: Fantasy in C major, D.760 (Op.15) (Wanderer)

• Liszt: Two Legends, S.175
o 1. St. François d’Assise – La prédication aux oiseaux
o 2. St. François de Paule marchant sur les flots
• Debussy: Pagodes (from Estampes)
• Debussy: La plus que lente
• Brahms: Rhapsody in E-flat major, Op.119 No.4

Encores:
• Leschetizky: Etude Héroïque, Op.48 No.3
• Schubert/Nyiregyházi: Am Meer, D.957 No.12

EN#006. November 1974: Location Unknown (Private Home Recording | FLAC)

• Beethoven: Adagio [abbreviated] from Piano Sonata No.29 in B-flat major, Op.106 (Grosse Sonate für das Hammerklavier)

EN#005. 1978 (TV Broadcast | Mp4480p)

• CBC documentary on Nyiregyházi (34 minutes)

  • Also an audio only copy

EN-C#002. January 1978: San Francisco, California (Studio Recordings)

  • International Piano Archives -
    • Liszt: Funérailles, S.173 No.7 (from Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses)
    • Liszt: Il Penseroso, S.161 No.2 (from Années de Pèlerinage II)
    • Liszt/Nyiregyházi: Hamlet (Symphonic Poem)
    • Liszt: Nuages gris, S.199
    • Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No.2, S.515
    • Grieg: Seven Lyric Pieces
    o Waltz, Op.12 No.2
    o Watchman’s Song, Op.12 No.3
    o Solitary Wanderer, Op.43 No.2
    o Scherzo, Op.54 No.5
    o French Serenade, Op.62 No.3
    o From the Days of Youth, Op.65 No.1
    o Salon, Op.65 No.4
    • Rachmaninoff: Prelude in B minor, Op.32 No.10
    • Liszt: Vallée d’Obermann, S.160 No.6 (from Années de Pèlerinage I)
     ∞ | (1978-01-08) | Baldwin Piano | ø | R?
  • Private CD-R

• Debussy: La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune (Préludes, Book II No.2)
• Liszt: Mosonyis Grabgeleit, S.194
• Liszt/Nyiregyházi: Benedictus from the Hungarian Coronation Mass, S.11
 ∞ | (1978-01-10) | Baldwin Piano | ø | R?

  • Private CD-R
    • Debussy: La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune (Préludes, Book II No.2)
    • Liszt: Weihnachtsbaum (Suite), S.186
    o 9. Abendglocken
    o 11. Ungarisch
    o 12. Polnisch
    • Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage I (Suisse), S.160
    o 8. Le mal du pays
    o 9. Les cloches de Genève – Nocturne
    o 3. Pastorale
     ∞ | (1978-01-10) | Steinway Piano | ø | R?
  • Private CD-R

• Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage III, S.163
o 2. Aux cypress de la Villa d’Este (Thrénodie I)
o 1. Angelus! (Prière aux anges gardiens)
• Liszt: Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses, S.173
o 1. Invocation
o 8. Miserere d’après Palestrina
• Grieg: Lyric Piece in C major, Op.57 No.5 (She Dances)
• Grieg: Lyric Piece in E major, Op.62 No.6 (Homewards)
 ∞ | (1978-01-11) | Steinway Piano | ø | R?

  • Private CD-R
    • Grieg: Lyric Piece in E major, Op.62 No.6 (Homewards)
    • Grieg: Lyric Piece in E minor, Op.71 No.1 (Once Upon a Time)
    • Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.3 in B-flat minor, S.244 No.3
    • Liszt/Nyiregyházi: March of the Three Holy Kings from Christus, S.3
     ∞ | (1978-01-11) | Baldwin Piano | ø | R?

  • Private CD-R

  • Excerpts from this session appeared on CBS LPs

EN-C#003. March 1978: San Francisco, California (Studio Recordings)

  • International Piano Archives -
    • Schubert/Liszt: Der Doppelgänger, D.957 (S.560 No.12)
    • Schubert/Liszt: Der Wanderer, D.489 (S.558 No.11)
    • Schumann/Nyiregyházi: Overture to Scenes from Goethe’s Faust, WoO 3
    • Liszt/Nyiregyházi: From the Cradle to the Grave (Symphonic Poem), S.107
    • Tchaikovsky/Nyiregyházi: Why?, Op.6 No.5
    • Nyiregyházi: Medley of popular songs & pieces from the 1920s
     ∞ | (1978-03-19,20,21) | Unknown Piano | ø | R?

  • Private CD-R
    • Nyiregyházi: Paraphrase on themes from Wagner’s operas Rienzi and Lohengrin
    • Nyiregyházi: Paraphrase on themes from Verdi’s opera Un Ballo in Maschera
    • Nyiregyházi: Paraphrase on themes from Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore
    • Nyiregyházi: Paraphrase on themes from Verdi’s opera Otello
    • Nyiregyházi: Paraphrase on themes from Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin
    • Nyiregyházi: Paraphrase on themes from Leoncavallo’s opera Pagliacci
     ∞ | (1978-03-19,20,21) | Unknown Piano | ø | M?

  • VAI/IPA 1003

  • Excerpts from this session appeared on CBS LPs

EN#001. April 30, 1978: Home of Ronald Antonioli, Novato, California (Audience Recording | FLAC)

  • Private Recital -
    • Liszt/Nyiregyházi: A Faust Symphony, S.108

• Liszt/Nyiregyházi: Tristis Est Anima Mea from Christus, S.3
• Liszt/Nyiregyházi: Pasticcio from The Legend of St. Elizabeth, S.2

EN#007. May 31, 1980: Takasaki Junior College, Takasaki, Japan (Videotaped Audience Recording | WMV1.84GB)

• Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage III, S.163
o 5. Sunt lacrimae rerum (en mode hongrois)
o 4. Les jeaux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este
• Schubert/Nyiregyházi: Das Wandern, D.795 No.1
• Rachmaninoff: Prelude in B minor, Op.32 No.10
• Liszt/Nyiregyházi: Music from the oratorio The Legend of St. Elisabeth, S.2

• Nyiregyházi: Paraphrase on themes from Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin
• Tchaikovsky: Waltz in A-flat major, Op.40 No.8
• Chopin: Mazurka in A minor, Op.posth (B.140)
• Grieg: Lyric Piece in B minor, Op.43 No.2 (Solitary Wanderer)
• Brahms: Intermezzo in E-flat minor, Op.118 No.6
• Liszt/Nyiregyházi: The Three Gypsies, S.320

  • This was Nyiregyházi’s first concert in Japan

EN#000a. Dates & Locations Unspecified (Audience Recordings | FLAC)

• Liszt: Après une lecture du Dante (Fantasia, quasi Sonata), S.161 No.7 (from Années de Pèlerinage II)
• Liszt: Eglogue, S.160 No.7 (from Années de Pèlerinage I)
• Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No.1, S.514
• Liszt: Au lac de Wallenstadt, S.160 No.2 (from Années de Pèlerinage I)
• Liszt: Concert Etude in A-flat major, S.145 No.1 (Waldesrauschen)
• Liszt: Aux cyprès de la Villa d’Este (Thrénodie I), S.163 No.2 (from Années de Pèlerinage III)
• Liszt: Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este, S.163 No.4 (from Années de Pèlerinage III)
• Liszt: Tarantella, S.162 No.3 (from Venezia e Napoli)

  • Some or all of this might duplicate material listed elsewhere

EN#000b. Dates & Locations Unspecified (Audience Recordings | FLAC)

• Liszt: Two Legends, S.175
o 1. St. François d’Assise – La prédication aux oiseaux
o 2. St. François de Paule marchant sur les flots
• Liszt: En rêve (Nocturne), S.207
• Liszt: Ballade No.2 in B minor, S.171
• Liszt: Sunt lacrymae rerum (En mode hongrois), S.163 No.5 (from Années de Pèlerinage III)
• Schubert/Liszt: Abschied, D.957 No.7 (S.560 No.5)
• Liszt: Sonetto 123 del Petrarca, S.161 No.6 (from Années de Pèlerinage II)
• Debussy: Pagodes (from Estampes)

  • Some or all of this might duplicate material listed elsewhere. According to the cover to this disc the Liszt Legendes were recorded on May 6, 1973 in San Francisco, while En rêve, Ballade No.2, Sunt lacrymae rerum & the Schubert/Liszt Abschied were taped in Los Angeles in September 1974. The first 6 items apparently originates from Desmar/IPA 111 [LP].

EN#000c. Dates & Locations Unspecified (Audience Recordings | FLAC)

• Debussy: La plus que lente
• Brahms: Intermezzo in E-flat minor, Op.118 No.6
• Brahms: Piano Sonata No.3 in F minor, Op.5
• Brahms: Ballade in G minor, Op.118 No.3
• Brahms: Rhapsody in E-flat major, Op.119 No.4

  • Some or all of this might duplicate material listed elsewhere

EN#000d. Dates & Locations Unspecified (Audience & Studio Recordings | FLAC)

• Schumann: Waldszenen, Op.82
o 1. Eintritt
o 2. Jäger auf der Lauer
o 3. Einsame Blumen
o 4. Verrufene Stelle
• Grieg: Lyric Piece in G minor, Op.54 No.1 (Shepherd Boy)
• Tchaikovsky: Waltz, Op.40 No.8
• Tchaikovsky: Romance, Op.5
• Blanchet: Au jardin du vieux Sérail (Adrianople), Op.18 No.3
• Bortkiewicz: Travel Pictures
o Poland (Mazurkas)
o Venetian Gondola Song
o In Spain
• Leschetizsky: Étude Heroïque, Op.48 No.3
• Chopin: Nocturne in F minor, Op.55 No.1
• Chopin: Mazurka, Op.6 No.2
• Chopin: Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op.28 No.10
• Chopin: Mazurka, Op.63 No.2
• Chopin: Mazurka in B minor, Op.33 No.4

  • Some or all of this might duplicate material listed elsewhere