Track Listing

CD 1 (71:03)
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonata No. 7 in D, op. 10, no. 325:08
1. Presto 6:17
2. Largo e mesto 10:36
3. Menuetto: Allegro 4:19
4. Rondo: Allegro 3:56
 Performed 18 December 1955, Kresge Auditorium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Piano Sonata No. 15 in D, op. 28, “Pastorale”19:52
5. Allegro 8:20
6. Andante 5:01
7. Scherzo: Allegro vivace 2:02
8. Rondo: Allegro, ma non troppo 4:29
 Performed 16 January 1955, Huntington Hall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C, op. 53, “Waldstein”25:59
9. Allegro con brio 10:51
10. Introduzione: Adagio molto 4:38
11. Rondo: Allegretto moderato—Prestissimo 10:30
 Performed 18 December 1955, Kresge Auditorium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
CD 2 (73:14)
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, op. 57, “Appassionata”20:43
1. Allegro assai 9:10
2. Andante con moto 6:44
3. Allegro, ma non troppo—Presto 4:47
 Performed 20 February 1955, Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts 
SCHUMANN
Symphonic Etudes, op. 1318:33
4. Theme 1:00
5. Variation I (Etude I) 0:43
6. Variation II (Etude II) 1:21
7. Etude III 1:39
8. Variation III (Etude IV) 0:57
9. Variation IV (Etude V) 0:45
10. Variation V (Etude VI) 0:44
11. Variation VI (Etude VII) 0:44
12. Variation VII (Etude VIII) 1:00
13. Etude IX 0:34
14. Variation VIII (Etude X) 0:44
15. Variation IX (Etude XI) 2:19
16. Finale (Etude XII) 5:56
 Performed 14 November 1954, Cambridge, Massachusetts  
BRAHMS
25 Variations and Fugue on a Theme by G. F. Handel, op. 2421:58
17. Aria 1:12
18. Variation I 0:49
19. Variation II 0:16
20. Variation III 0:21
21. Variation IV 0:22
22. Variation V 0:36
23. Variation VI 1:14
24. Variation VII 0:16
25. Variation VIII 0:35
26. Variation IX 0:58
27. Variation X 0:16
28. Variation XI 0:30
29. Variation XII 1:11
30. Variation XIII 1:19
31. Variation XIV 0:19
32. Variation XV 0:19
33. Variation XVI 0:15
34. Variation XVII 0:16
35. Variation XVIII 0:22
36. Variation XIX 0:56
37. Variation XX 1:09
38. Variation XXI 0:35
39. Variation XXII 1:15
40. Variation XXIII 0:13
41. Variation XXIV 0:15
42. Variation XXV 0:34
43. Fugue 5:20
 Performed 22 March 1959, Kresge Auditorium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
BRAHMS
Selections from Klavierstücke, op. 118
44. Intermezzo in A Minor, op. 118, no. 1 1:56
45. Intermezzo in A, op. 118, no. 2 6:54
46. Ballade in G Minor, op. 118, no. 3 3:09
 Performed 14 November 1954, Cambridge, Massachusetts 

 

Producer: Donald Manildi

Audio Conservation: Ward Marston

Audio Assistance: J. Richard Harris

Photographs: Gregor Benko, The International Piano Archives at Maryland, and the Ernst Levy Family

Booklet Design: Takeshi Takahashi

Cover Photo: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum

Marston would like to thank Ernst Levy’s sons, Frank and Matthys Levy, his colleague Siegmund Levarie, and his admirers Gregor Benko, Gerald Morgan, Jr., and The International Piano Archives at Maryland for their help in the production of this CD release.