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	Alfred Cortot on SONY BMG Masterworks
		From 1907 to 1917 Cortot was a professor of piano at the Paris Conservatoire, but his activities as a soloist in Europe and the USA made it impossible for him to devote regular, uninterrupted periods to academic teaching.
		Cortot made editions of most of Chopin’s piano music (and some by Liszt, Mendelssohn,Schumann and Weber); they are ‘editions de travil’ which include technical exercise related to the music, and annotations.
		Cortot was an avid and systematic collector and he cared for and catalogued his substantial library of musical autographs, literature, first and early editions, letters, portraits, coins and postage stamps.
	www.sonybmgmasterworks.com /artists/alfredcortot/index.html (295 words)

	VH1.com : Alfred Cortot : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
		Alfred Denis Cortot was born in Nyon, Switzerland on September 26, 1877.
		Cortot brought Wagner to Paris, leading the first Paris performance of Götterdämmerung in May, 1902, and a remarkable performance of Tristan und Isolde the next month.
		Cortot's teacher was a student of Chopin, and the grace of his Chopin performances, especially, remains breathtaking and should be recommended to all students of the piano; he also had a remarkable way with the music of QRobert Schumann.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/cortot_alfred/bio.jhtml (625 words)

	Cortot Schumann/Chopin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Alfred Cortot, pianist; London Philharmonic Orch/Landon Ronald (Schumann); Orch/John Barbirolli (Chopin)
		Alfred Cortot (1877-1962) was a pianist in the grand style, idiosyncratic to the extreme, a superb technician who seldom found time to practice.
		Don't expect note-perfect performances in these grand interpretations, Cortot's only recording of the Chopin Second, recorded in 1935 with an anonymous orchestra, his third of the Schumann (the first was an acoustic made in 1923, the second an electric made in 1927 -- all conducted by Landon Ronald).
	classicalcdreview.com /cortot.htm (312 words)

	Alfred Cortot
		Alfred Cortot was a consummate musician, with a remarkably broad range of tastes and affinities.
		Cortot's most important weakness was (like Schnabel) a disdain for practicing and pure technical skill, so that in many of his recordings, there is a raggedness to the playing that will not please those who require mechanical note-perfection.
		Cortot was an active champion of much of this music, and was a member of the general artistic elite of early 20th-century-Paris (think of the citations of his name in various Picasso and Braque Cubist compositions).
	members.macconnect.com /users/j/jimbob/classical/cortot.html (960 words)

	Nimbus Records, Grand Piano, NI 8814, Alfred Cortot plays Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven, Skriabin Saint-Saëns & ...
		Alfred Cortot was born in Nyon, Switzerland, on 26 September, 1877.
		Cortot was one of the great piano minds, and his writings are sprinkled with his own constant wonder at the masterpieces he played.
		Following the war, Cortot was found guilty of collaboration with the enemy by a French governmental panel, and was suspended from all public musical activity for a period of a year.
	www.wyastone.co.uk /nrl/gpiano/8814c.html (3085 words)

	Alfred Cortot. The Late Recordings. Volume 1 [JW]: Classical CD Reviews- Sept 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Cortot’s reappearance at the end of the War was fraught with recrimination concerning the nature and extent of his conduct under the Vichy regime.
		At a tribunal he was suspended from appearing in Paris for one year — a ban that effectively banished Cortot from the capital until April 1946 but was in fact effective until the beginning of 1947 as union pressure led to the cancellation of a concerto engagement.
		Cortot was ill, somewhat unreliable and the atmosphere throughout was somewhat less than sympathetic to the Frenchman (Crimp cites engineer David Bicknell’s intolerance toward Cortot’s self-evident fallibility).
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2002/Sept02/Alfred_Cortot.htm (551 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Alfred Cortot
		Alfred Denis Cortot (September 26, 1877 – June 15, 1962) was a French-Swiss pianist and conductor.
		In 1905, Cortot formed a trio with Jacques Thibaud and Pablo Casals, which established itself as the leading piano trio of its era, and probably of any era.
		As the foremost piano interpreter of Chopin and Schumann, Cortot made editions of both those composers' music, which were notable for his own meticulous commentary on technical problems and matters of interpretation.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Alfred_Cortot (602 words)

	Cortot Franck/Saint-Saens
		This is a worthy companion to Naxos' recent issue of Cortot's recordings of Chopin's Concerto No. 2 and Schumann's concerto (see review), completing their survey of Cortot's complete concerto recordings (with the exception of his 1927 recording of Symphonic Variations).
		Cortot produced a sound that belied his small presence (he was only 5 ft. tall).
		Cortot also is quoted regarding regarding interpretation of this concerto stating that the opening of the second movement should be played "with a clattering tone," which perhaps justifies his overly brisk -- but exciting -- playing.
	classicalcdreview.com /cortot2.htm (388 words)

	CHOPIN: 14 Waltzes; Fantasie in F Minor, Op. 49 - Alfred Cortot, piano - Naxos
		The second in the Cortot Chopin Edition, this disc, ably edited by Mark Obert-Thorn, assembles the June 1934 inscriptions by Alfred Cortot (1877-1962) of the Chopin waltzes, along with his five alternative takes Cortot recorded between 1939 and 1949.
		Cortot comes right back, however, for the F Major brilliante waltz, in which he displays some canny detache and brittle sonority.
		Cortot finally breathes for the transition to the slow section, a meditative song Cortot treats as a plainchant whose harmonies adumbrate Debussy.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=1264 (802 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Alfred Cortot founded the École Normale de Musique in 1919, where he taught master classes in piano interpretation until his death in 1962.
		But if you follow Cortot's not-always-audible voice along with the French texts or their English translations, you get a stronger sense of what he wishes to impart.
		Cortot particularly waxes poetic on the subject of Chopin's Ballades, although he also gives specific instructions regarding tone color, dynamics, and balances between hands.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=9552 (406 words)

	Amazon.com: Alfred Cortot Plays Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Schumann: Music: Fryderyk Chopin,Franz Liszt,Maurice Ravel,Robert ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Cortot himself is an aquired taste, he often hits wrong notes and overuses rubato, something all pianists of the era did.
		This is a fine historical testament to the playing of the important legend Alfred Cortot: the program selection is thorough and attractive (save for that one campy interpretation of Liszt's 2nd Rhapsody, which belongs in the garbage).
		Cortot is, in my opinion, the greatest interpreter of piano music that this century has witnessed.
	www.amazon.com /Alfred-Cortot-Plays-Chopin-Schumann/dp/B00000I93Y (1016 words)

	Alfred Cortot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Some of his later recordings are a disservice to his legacy, but judging from his earlier discs, he had a formidable technique capable of dispatching Liszt's glittery showpieces with relative ease.
		We should take Claudio Arrau's words to heart that Cortot's difficulties were more imagined than real; he knew exactly what to do, and how to do it on the keyboard.
		Cortot's unique treatment of rubato might not be for everyone, but his ravishing tone and remarkable sensitivity should be a model to aspiring pianists everywhere.
	www.geocities.com /greatpianists/cortot.html (412 words)

	International Piano Archives at Maryland, UM Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Alfred Cortot was born in Nyon, Switzerland in 1877.
		One of the cornerstones of Cortot's enduring legacy is the large number of students he taught.
		Cortot recorded copiously for HMV over a period of some 40 years.
	www.lib.umd.edu /PAL/IPAM/cortot.html (148 words)

	The Master Speaks ... and Plays - November 28, 2005 - The New York Sun
		But Cortot's fascination with Wagner's music led him to Bayreuth, where he became a choral coach and then an assistant conductor, under the tutelage of the great conductors Felix Mottl and Hans Richter.
		The surface beauty of Cortot's French style took root in that German soil, and the result was an interpretive method that placed dramatic context and mood above the more formal, emotionally distant approach valued by his peers.
		In 1907, Gabriel Faure appointed Cortot professor of piano at the Conservatoire.
	www.nysun.com /article/23587 (611 words)

	Alfred Cortot, piano - The Late Recordings, Volume 2 = BACH: Aria; PURCELL: Minuet; SCHUBERT: Litanie; SCHUMANN: Vogel ...
		Cortot opens with a limpid, even suave rendition of the little A-flat Aria from the Klavier Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, followed by a crystalline series of musicbox sonorities in the Purcell transcription from Harpsichord Suites 1 and 2.
		The rarest piece, Cortot's 1947 Prelude Aria and Finale by Franck, lacks a second part to his opening Prelude, so his earlier 1932 version had to fill in - editor Bryan Crimp's splicing the later version on a Steinway to that of a Bluether.
		Poetry, moreover, is the province of both pianists, Cortot's combining a sense of probing improvisation even as he drives the music hard.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=1529 (568 words)

	Zenph Studios
		These two files are "before" and "after" recordings by legendary pianist Alfred Cortot.
		Alfred Cortot's original mono 78 rpm recording for HMV in 1926, playing Chopin's prelude #3 in G major.
		Cortot’s fingers were perhaps ‘creaky,’ but that was his sound and I loved it!”
	www.zenph.com /sample.html (311 words)

	Zenph Studios
		These two files were made in 1926 and 2005: "before" and "after" recordings by legendary pianist Alfred Cortot.
		Zenph® Studios’ re-performance™ of Alfred Cortot playing Chopin's prelude #3 in G major.
		Celebrated concert pianist Ruth Slenczynska studied with Alfred Cortot in the 1930s.
	zenph.com /listen.html (335 words)

	Alfred Cortot - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Alfred Denis Cortot (26 de setiembre de 1877 – 15 de junio de 1962) fue un pianista y director de orquesta francés-suizo.
		En 1905, Cortot formó un trío con Jacques Thibaud y Pablo Casals, y se conviertieron en el trío con piano más importante de su tiempo.
		Siendo el más destacado intérprete al piano de Chopin y Schumann, Cortot hizo ediciones de la música de ambos compositores, que fueron notables por sus comentarios meticulosos acerca de los problemas técnicos y asuntos de interpretación.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Cortot (639 words)

	Alfred Cortot - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Soon he became widely acclaimed as a performer of Beethoven concertos, appearing as a soloist in two..
		Cortot was also a skillful and scholarly editor of great piano music, famous for his editions of most of Chopin's piano music.
		In 1943 Cortot founded the Chamber Music Society of the Paris Conservatory Concerts.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,982127,00.html (719 words)

	The Art of Alfred Cortot by Alfred Cortot at jsbach.org
		The big difference from the likes of Klemperer is the supreme freedom and vitality Cortot feels he's entitled to.
		All concertos have harpsichord, but the fifth, which sees Cortot himself at the piano and Jacques Thibaud at the violin.
		There are a few cuts made in order to fit in 78 rpm discs, but the booklet points out that Cortot's readings were among the shortest ever.
	www.jsbach.org /cortottheartofalfredcortot.html (295 words)

	INKPOT -- Casals and Thibaud play Brahms, Dvorak double and cello concerti - conductors Cortot and Szell - NAXOS
		It goes without saying that Casals and Thibaud had it too, but what completes the circle is the presence of Alfred Cortot on the podium.
		Cortot was a conductor of no little talent, a facet of him that was obscured by his far greater fame as a pianist.
		Cortot's conducting is suave and involved, cushioning the proceedings.
	inkpot.com /classical/naxtriocortot.html (785 words)

	Tower Records - Alfred Cortot - The Master Classes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The selections on this CD set are part of one of Alfred Cortot's Master Classes given between 1954 and 1960 at the cole Normale de Musique in Paris, France.
		This is late Cortot, 54-60, with all that entails, ie finger slips wrong notes(though there are moments where I was shocked at the extraordinary level-it was nice to be reminded how great he truly was-for instance certain moments of the op 30 sonata.
		Depsite the fact that I may be cortot's biggest fan, in all seriousness, there is only one person i have ever met that i would recommend this too.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=3319438 (1181 words)

	classical music - andante - frÃ©dÃ©ric chopin: solo piano, volume i
		Take Alfred Cortot's recordings of Chopin's Preludes and Waltzes as an antidote to the shimmering, featureless technical "perfection" that so often passes for interpretation in our international concert halls these days.
		And yet to emphasize Cortot's mistakes is to miss the point spectacularly: listen past his frailties and you will be rewarded by some of the most personal, poetic playing on record.
		In Cortot's best recordings, we find what his radically dissimilar admirer, Alfred Brendel, called "a mixture of spontaneity and exact calculation." And especially in the Preludes, which Brendel aptly described as "24 pieces sounding like 24 different characters."
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=23169 (604 words)

	Alfred Cortot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfred Denis Cortot (September 26, 1877 – June 15, 1962) was a French-Swiss pianist and conductor.
		He made his debut at the Concerts Colonne in 1897, playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3.
		Cortot, Alfred, La musique française de piano, 1930–48
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Cortot (587 words)

	Alfred Cortot - AOL Music
		Recommended listening: The first batch of Philips' Great Pianists of the 20th Century "Alfred Cortot I" set inadvertantly contains never-before-released...
		Cortot, Alfred, La musique française de piano, 1930?48; ?, Cours d?interprétation, 1934 (Studies in Musical Interpretation, 1937); ?, Aspects de Chopin,...
		Download, listen and watch Alfred Cortot music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/alfred-cortot/419766/main (97 words)

	Amazon.com: Cortot, Alfred: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Chopin: Preludes, Impromtus, Barcarolle & Berceuse - Alfred Cortot
		Alfred Cortot Plays Schumann, Volume 3 by Charles Panzèra, Robert Schumann, and Alfred Cortot (Audio CD - 1994)
		Alfred Cortot Plays Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Schumann by Fryderyk Chopin, Franz Liszt, Maurice Ravel, Robert Schumann, and Giuseppe Verdi (Audio CD - 1999)
	www.amazon.com /b?ie=UTF8&node=43649 (475 words)

	AllRefer.com - Alfred Denis Cortot (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Alfred Denis Cortot (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Alfred Denis Cortot, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
		Alfred Denis Cortot[Alfred´ dunE´ kOrtO´] Pronunciation Key, 1877–1962, French pianist and conductor.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Cortot-A.html (205 words)

	The Piano Recordings of Alfred Cortot
		Beethoven's 32 Sonatas were recorded twice, once with Cortot's comments.
		A film exists of Cortot playing most of Debussy's Children's Corner Suite.
		The tasteless scenario obscures Cortot throughout, except for a few rare moments allowing glimpses of him and his hands.
	www.arbiterrecords.com /musicresourcecenter/cortdisc.html (163 words)

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