This is a picture of Mitzi when she was 15, having just won first prize in a competition. The prize included four concerts as soloist with the Chicago Symphony in Chicago's Orchestra Hall. She played the Schumann Piano Concerto.

1) "Kecapi Suling" (Ricks Records)
This is a wonderful mixture of Sundanese gamelan music together with bird songs. I find I listen to this CD more than any other because it is impossible to be anything but perfectly relaxed while listening to these sweet gentle sounds.

2) "Abbey Road" The Beatles (EMI)
Well, what can one say? This remains a great classic. It was fantastic when it came out, and I think all people of my generation will have a tremendous fondness for this CD.

3) "Mosaics" Michael Rabin (EMI Classics)
This is simply a marvellous, free and natural violin sound. No matter what Rabin plays, the timing and phrases are always perfectly right. It is a delight to hear any of Michael Rabin's recordings.

4) Chopin "Valses Brilliantes", Dinu Lipatti (La Collection)
I especially love all these waltzes and happily played them myself in my previous incarnation as a pianist. I find Lipatti's phrasing wonderful, perfectly turned and delicate.

5) "In a Mist" Bix Beiderbecke (Legends of Jazz)
This delightful music, happy and playful.

6) JS Bach "Goldberg Variations", Angela Hewitt (Hyperion)
I had a hard time choosing between this version and the first rendition of Glen Gould at Carnegie Hall in 1955. The Hewitt CD is more correct in style but of course there is more whimsy with Gould. May I have half of each?

7) "The Art of the Theremin" Clara Rockmore (Delos)
I adore this recording; I love the idea of an instrument you play by NOT touching it. This instrument is completely fascinating to me generally, and of course Clara Rockmore was the greatest theremin artist of all time.

8) Bela Bartok "Concerto for Orchestra" Erich Leinsdorf/Boston Symphony Orchestra (RCA)
I listened to this recording over and over as a small child. Some of the themes still fill me with a wonderful sense of wistfulness. Later I bought many versions by various orchestras, but this remains my favourite.

9) Elgar Cello Concerto (also Haydn Concerto, Beethoven sonata)- Jacqueline Du Pre, Pinchas Zuckerman, Daniel Barenboim (EMI)
I am a huge fan of Jacqueline Du Pre, no matter what she plays. I recall a viseo I saw many years ago where she was playing the Elgar Concerto with Daniel Barenboim conducting. It moved me to tears.

10) "Cheap Thrills" Janis Joplin, Big Brother and the Holding Company (Columbus)
I think music is as powerful as scent or colour for bringing up memories. When this recording was popular, I was busy working in a church cellar for the underground, shuttling American boys of draft age out of the country. We were often raided and taken to the police station for anti-American activities, but they always had to let me off because I was underage and could not be arrested. Whenever I hear "Cheap Thrills", in my mind's eye I see these anonymous friends gathered together in a great cause, feeling like we were doing our best for peace.

I know I am only allowed 10 CDs… but if I really were isolated on an island for a long time, I would have to include the complete works of Antoine Forqueray for harpsichord and throw out something else. This is my favourite music to play, and I can feel the notes in my fingers when I hear it. If I couldn't actually play an instrument, I would wish to hear this music to call up a tactile sensation of playing, which I would miss beyond anything.

Complete Works of Antoine Forqueray, Mitzi Meyerson (MDG)

Radio Sendung SWR, (Neues vom Klassikmarkt)

Wenn man nicht wüsste, dass die eben gehörte Musik von Gottlieb Muffat stammte, hätte man sie auch für Händel halten können. Das eben ist es, was Mitzi Meyerson reizt an diesem vergessenen Komponisten, dass er die Klaviatur unterschiedlichster Personalstile so geschickt zu imitieren, wo nicht zu kopieren und zu bearbeiten weiß. Und sie ihrerseits verbindet Prä-zision und Notentreue mit aberwitzigen, intelligenten Verzierungen und schmuggelt mit ihrem virtuos-raffinierten Spiel wiederum eigene Mitzy Meyerson-Klänge in diese Stücke hinein. Es sind zuweilen geradezu berauschende Klänge, die sie sie ihrem Instrument abzugewinnen weiß durch besondere Registerkombinationen. In dieser Sammlung aller sechs Suiten voll kontrastierender Stimmungen durchspielt Mitzi Meyerson Muffats vielseitige und ausgesprochen unakademische Musikwelt, in der alle Arten von Variationen, Tänzen - von Couranten, Sarabanden, Menuetten und Allemanden bis zu Giguen -, Improvisationen ebenso wie Charakterstücke eine ganze Reihe von unterschiedli-chen Nationalstilen widerspiegeln. Es gibt kaum etwas Vergleichbares in der gesamten Cem-baloliteratur. Von Anfang an sind diese Cembalostücke Muffats voller Überraschungen. "Componimenti Musicali" übersetzt Mitzi Meyerson denn auch nicht im Sine von "musikali-sche Kompositionen", sondern sie spricht von "Musikalischen Komponenten", die diesen Zyklus von Suiten ausmachen, wie man im sehr informativen Booklet-Text von Boris Kehr-mann lesen kann.

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CD 2     Gottlieb Muffat    LC 00690, Glossa 921804
Tr. 8     Suite I C-Dur, Final
2'37    Mitzi Meyerson, Cembalo

Diese Musik kennt man doch? Genau: aus Händels ”Cäcilienode”. Händel kannte seinen Gott-lieb Muffat und bediente sich nicht nur aus dem Finalsatz der ersten Suite, sondern reichlich aus dem ganzen Schatzhaus der ”Componimenti Musicali”, die Mitzi Meyerson jetzt beim Label Glossa herausgebracht hat. übrigens hat Muffat sich auch Händels bedient, indem er am Wiener Kaiserhof Händels Kompositionen für Cembalo bearbeitete. Man fragt sich tat-sächlich mit Mitzi Meyerson: ”Wer hat die Karten nur so gemischt, dass dieser Gottlieb Muffat im Laufe der Zeit in Vergessenheit geraten konnte?” Ganz sicher wird diese Auf-nahme, wird Mitzy Meyerson mit ihrer mitreißenden Interpretationen des von ihr wiederent-deckten Gottlieb Muffat bei allen Cembalomusik-Begeisterten ein bleibender Platz in der Diskographie sicher sein.

Damit sind wir fast am Ende der Sendung angelangt, in der es heute neben Gottlieb Muffat um den Barock-Komponisten Salaverde ging, um Händel und die Sopranistin Simone Kermes, um eine historische Parsifal-Gesamtaufnahme der Württembergischen Staatsoper und um die neuste CD des Countertenors Philippe Jarroussky mit französischen Liedern des Fin de siécle. Mit dem ersten Satz der fünften Suite Muffats in der Interpretation Mitzi Meyersons möchte ich mich für heute verabschieden. Nach der Sendung ”Neues vom Klassikmarkt” geht es hier in SWR 2 mit den Nachrichten weiter und dann im ”Spielraum” mit der Sendung: ”Gestatten: Joseph Haydn ... von Beruf Scherzkeks und Gentleman, Kapellmeister und Komponist. Der Spielraum als Klangküche.” Eine Sendung von Nicole Dantrimont und Ulrike Timm. Ihnen ein schönes Wochenende, Ihr Dieter David Scholz.

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CD 1    Gottlieb Muffat LC 00690, Glossa 921804
Tr. 1    Suite V, d-moll, Ouverture - Vivace
3`56     Mitzi Meyerson, Cembalo

...And here, just for the sake of amusement,
is the Google English translation!

If you do not know that the flat belonged to music by Gottlieb Muffat came, they would also be able Handel. It just is what excites Mitzy Meyerson to this forgotten composer that they have different keyboard styles so skilful staff to imitate, if not to copy and edit white. And they in turn connects pre precision and with fidelity touch crazy, intelligent, and smuggles ornaments with her virtuoso turn-refined game Mitzy Meyerson own sounds in these pieces into it. There are sometimes almost intoxicating sounds that they know their instrument abzugewinnen register by special combinations. In this collection of all six suites full of contrasting moods durchspielt Mitzi Meyerson Muffat versatile and extremely selected non-academic music world in which all kinds of variations, dances - from Courante, Sarabande, Minuets and Gigue Allemande up to, improvisations, as well as nature plays a whole range under chen schiedli National styles reflect. There is hardly anything comparable in the entire Cem Balo literature. From the outset, these Muffat harpsichord pieces full of surprises. ”Com po nimenti Musicali” translated Mitzi Meyerson because not even in the Sine of "musical cal compositions," but it speaks of "musical elements", the cycle of these suites represent how in the very informative booklet text by Boris Kehr mann can read.

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CD 2 Gottlieb Muffat LC 00690, Glossa 921804
Tr. 8 Suite I in C Major, Final
2`37 Mitzi Meyerson, harpsichord

This music is known yet? Exactly: from Handel's ”Cäcilienode. Handel knew his God loved Muffat and served not only from the final sentence of the first suite, but plenty from the whole house of treasure ”Componimenti Musicali”, which is now at the Mitzi Meyerson Glossa label has brought out. Also, Muffat Handel also served by the Wiener Kaiserhof Handel's compositions for harpsichord edited. One wonders did neuter with Mitzi Meyerson: "Who has the card only so mixed that Gottlieb Muffat over time could be forgotten?" Surely this is at tion is Mitzy Meyerson, with its rousing interpretations of her again ent Gottlieb Muffat covered at all Cem balomusik enthusiasts remain the same place in the discography safe.

At the end of today's edition of the program ”Update on the Classic market” here at SWR 2, or something extraordinary. Man knows that something has not yet been heard and fascia ing out when Mitzi Meyerson - harpsichord professor at the Univer sity of the Arts in Berlin - that goes into the recording studio, because it is one of the richest aware, yes Besessensten under the harpsichordist. And she has a soft spot for secluded, Un knew. It reads harpsichord music like other people novels, as she confesses.
After their complete recordings of Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Georg Böhm, Claude-Bénigne Belbastre carries the latest exploration of the Chicago-born artist and hochgeehrten beyond the limits of the baroque to the mainstream ”Componi menti Musicali” of Gottlieb Muffat. This is not about the Paris-trained in Lully Georg Muffat, who is Court Kapellmeister to Passau, but his son .. He was the second youngest of the new children. His ”Componimenti Musicali” are almost the only surviving work of the now forgotten musician, from 1716-1770 as organist and music teacher at the imperial court in Vienna has been in operation.

This means that we are almost at the end of the consignment arrived in which it is now next to the Gottlieb Muffat Baroque com ponisten Salaverde went to Handel and the soprano Simone Kermen, a historical Parsifal total intake of the Württemberg State Opera and the newest CD of the coun tertenors Philippe Jarroussky with French songs of the fin de siècle. By the first sentence of the fifth suite Muffat in the interpretation Mitzi Meyerson, I would like to adopt today. After the program ”Update on the Classic market 'is here in SWR 2 with the news and then continue in the” scope ”with the show:" Allow: Joseph Haydn ... Scherzkeks of professional and gentleman, bandmaster and composer. The margin as a sound food. ”A consignment of Nicole Dantrimont and Ulrike Timm. You have a nice weekend, your David Dieter Scholz.

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CD 1 Gottlieb Muffat LC 00690, Glossa 921804