MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG (1919-1996): Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3 - Children's Notebooks, Books 1-3, Opp. 16, 19 & 23, 21 Easy Pieces, Op. 34, Can-Can.
Catalogue Number: 11O073
Label: Grand Piano
Reference: GP610
Format: CD
Price: $16.98
Description: The 23 pieces making up the Notebooks of 1944/45, serious, somber, sometimes outright grim, have been recorded before. So has the group of Easy Pieces (1946) which are equally intended for already competent pianists (although some might work as teaching pieces), except that previous recordings have not included four which were left out of the crudely-published original Soviet version; these are first recordings, as is the later (1965) minute-long Can-Can, a trifle dedicated to the woman who later became Weinberg's second wife. Allison Brewster Franzetti (piano).