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Artist: Solomon
Author: Peter Iljitsj Tsjaikovski
Label: Columbia
Year: 1929
Solomon Cutner, English classical pianist with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Hamilton Harty in Central Hall, Westminster. Tsjaikovski wrote this in 1875. Considered to be "unplayable" by his friend Nicolai Rubinstein. First performance in Boston by German pianist Hans von Bülow (1875).
Covers:
Freddy Martin [first as instrumental with pianist Jack Fina, later that year in vocal version as Tonight We Love (n°1 US); vocal: Clyde Rogers]
Tony Martin [also as Tonight We Love]
Van Cliburn [child prodigy from Shreveport, LA (real name: Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr.) who won the first Tsjaikovski piano contest in Moscow in 1958 (at the pinnacle of Cold War); landed him a ticker tape parade in New York and a millionseller worldwide]
Jackie Wilson [as Alone At Last]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)