Welcome to Norvard Recordings, classical piano at its finest!
It is our pleasure to bring you sublime interpretations of historic
classical piano performance.

Norvard Recordings was launched in 1995 in order to provide a better source
of "live" recorded performances.

Our featured artist is American pianist Eunice Norton.
Eunice was heralded by leading critics of classical piano as the
"Thoreau of Pianists" during her early career, and was arguably
Artur Schnabel's most gifted student.  Hear her uncanny ability
to enter the world and the mind of the composer through a
profound gift of musical intuition. The flame of this cosmic
creativity was passed on to her by Schnabel, who received it in a
direct line from Beethoven himself through Czerny and Leschetizky.

Experience classical piano with the immediacy and love of the original moment
of its creation. In the words of the experts:

"She knows well the way to Chopin's heart.”

- Ignace Paderewski, circa 1925

"Eunice Norton plays Bach as Bach would wish to hear it."

- Alfred Einstein, circa 1930

"Here is a reading of titanic proportion, granitic it its strength, electrifying in its
blazing intensity.” (“Waldstein" Sonata)

- Allen Linkowski, American Record Guide, 1999

"It is simply one of the finest realizations of the work I have ever encountered."

- Bernard Jacobson, Fanfare Magazine, 2002

In choosing the music for our first releases, we wish to present to the public
some of the greatest works of the classical piano repertoire, including:

Bach's Goldberg Variations: Eunice Norton performed the first radio broadcast in the
United States of Bach's Goldberg Variations over New York's WQXR in the early 1940's.
Norton's teacher, Artur Schnabel, declared that her broadcast was the most important
achievement ever made by any of his students up to that point.

Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: Beethoven had such a high regard for the WTC that he
practiced it every day. "Practicing the Well-Tempered Clavier is the exploration and
adventure of finding the best way to do things." Eunice's statement here shows how
the cycle had come to represent for her the highest measure of artistic merit, more a
ritual of essences than a mere series of tonal discovery and contrapuntal invention.

Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata: In this sonata, Beethoven transformed into sound
an extraordinary concept of the order of the universe. He has explored and exposed the
whole great scheme of things; his understanding of space, of the movements of the
heavenly spheres, of the chaotic irregularities and the magnetic powers that hold all in
balance, the ultimate harmony and peace - and the revelation of it all.

These inspirational recordings are available to be ordered now!

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