Fou Ts'ong Complete Westminster Recordings (10CD)

Almost half a century before Lang Lang, the pianist Fou Ts’ong took Europe and then the US by storm. With his third-prize finish at the 1955 Chopin International Competition, listeners and critics alike were astonished to encounter a mature and seemingly instinctive feel for Chopin’s music, under the fingers of a 21-year-old from Shanghai. This set brings together his complete Westminster recordings, ranging from Baroque music through five Mozart concertos, Beethoven and Schubert sonatas, to his poetic accounts of the music of Chopin.

TRACK LIST

CD 1
DOMENICO SCARLATTI (1685–1757)
Keyboard Sonatas
Sonata in C major, Kk 132 (L.457)
Sonata in C minor, Kk 73 (L.217)
Sonata in F major, Kk 82 (L.82)
Sonata in B minor, Kk 27 (L.449)
Sonata in E major, Kk 380 (L.23)
Sonata in F major, Kk 483 (L.483)
Sonata in G major, Kk 124 (L.482)
Sonata in F major, Kk 151 (L.238)
Sonata in F major, Kk 256 (L.256)
Sonata in E major, Kk 206 (L.257)
Sonata in C minor, Kk 11 (L.352)
Sonata in C major, Kk 255 (L.255)

CD 2
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
Chaconne in G major, HWV 435
Suite No. 14 in G major, HWV 441
Minuet in G minor, HWV 434/4

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903
Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother, in B flat major, BWV 992

CD 3
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110

CD 4
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828)
Piano Sonata No. 14 in A minor, D.784
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D.960

CD 5
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810–1849)
Mazurkas
Mazurka in E major, Op. 6 No. 3
Mazurka in A minor, Op. 7 No. 2
Mazurka in E minor, Op. 17 No. 2
Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4
Mazurka in G minor, Op. 24 No. 1
Mazurka in C major, Op. 24 No. 2
Mazurka in B flat minor, Op. 24 No. 4
Mazurka in C minor, Op. 30 No. 1
Mazurka in B minor, Op. 30 No. 2
Mazurka in B minor, Op. 33 No. 4
Mazurka in E minor, Op. 41 No. 2
Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 50 No. 3
Mazurka in C minor, Op. 56 No. 3
Mazurka in A minor, Op. 59 No. 1
Mazurka in G minor, Op. 67 No. 2
Mazurka in A minor, Op. 67 No. 4
Mazurka in A minor, Op. 68 No. 2
Mazurka in F minor, Op. 68 No. 4

CD 6
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810–1849)
Ballades Nos. 1–4
Prélude in A flat major, Op. posth.
Prélude in C sharp minor, Op. 45
Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57

CD 7
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856)
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810–1849)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
London Symphony Orchestra / Peter Maag

CD 8
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major, KV 271 ‘Jeunehomme’
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, KV 414
Vienna Radio Orchestra / Brian Priestman

CD 9
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, KV 503
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, KV 595
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper / Victor Desarzens

CD 10
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
Concerto for Three Pianos and Orchestra (No. 7) in F major, KV 242 ‘Lodron’
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (No. 10) in E flat major, KV 365
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Fou Ts’ong; English Chamber Orchestra