Marcelle Meyer: 27 Scarlatti Sonatas (78rpm disc recordings)

If you wish to support The Piano Files, please consider membership at my Patreon page: For more information about Marcelle Meyer: A series of 27 Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti recorded by the fabled French pianist Marcelle Meyer for Les Discophiles Français between 1946 and 1949. The 3 albums of these 78rpm discs were first issued in long-play format on a Pearl CD in 2001, produced by Don Manildi and remastered by Seth Winner. While that release stated that the recordings were been made in 1947, it appears that these performances were set down over the course of four years: in November 1946; on December 20, 1948; and on May 10, 1949. Meyer’s 1954-55 series of 32 Scarlatti Sonatas is better known, being among the four two-LP sets of her recordings released on the EMI France’s References series in the 1980s that brought her back to public attention after her absence from t
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