Piano: The Romantic Fabric

A highly regarded audio engineer, Emory Cook (1913 - 2002) was the developer of two track or binaural sound, an early attempt at stereo recording. Piano: The Romantic Fabric is an early binaural recording featuring a solo piano recital by concert pianist Samuel Sorin playing works by Frédéric Chopin, Enrique Granados, Franz Liszt, and Alexander Scriabin. Writing in High Fidelity magazine, reviewer Ray Ericson wrote: “In its customary way, Cook has reproduced with 100% realism the sound of a piano. I am tempted to say that a piano never sounds this good in concert; it is true that concert performances on the piano are rarely heard under such advantageous circumstances, in this ideal state of maximum resonance without blur.”

Track Listing

101	Fantasie in F Minor	Samuel Sorin	10:58
102	The Maiden and the Nightingale	Samuel Sorin	05:36
103	Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 in C-Sharp Minor, S.244/12	Samuel Sorin	09:17
104	Nocturne for the Left Hand Alone, Op. 9, No. 2	Samuel Sorin	05:45