p, 1912-2005
Musician of Classical
A.k.a. Sándor György
Born 21 September 1912, died 9 December 2005 György Sándor was a Hungarian pianist, friend of Béla Bartók and champion of his music. Sándor was born in Budapest. He studied at the Liszt Academy in Budapest under Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, and debuted as a performer in 1930. He toured as a concert pianist through the 1930s, making his Carnegie Hall debut in 1939. He became an American citizen and served in the Army Signal Corps and the Intelligence and Special Services from 1942 to 1944. Sándor remained friends with Bartók throughout his life, and was one of only ten people who attended Bartók's funeral in 1945. Sándor played the world premiere of Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 on 8 February, 1946 with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy in Philadelphia, Pa. The performance was repeated later that year by the same ensemble in New York, and recorded for Columbia Masterworks. Following the war, he returned to the concert stage. His repertoire concentrated on Hungarian and Russian works. He recorded the complete piano works of Kodály, of Sergei Prokofiev, and of Bartók; for the latter he won the Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy in 1965.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Complete Solo Piano Music | Béla Bartók, György Sándor | 2003 | Album |
Solo Piano Works New Recordings Vol. 1 | Béla Bartók - György Sándor | 1995 | Album |
Solo Piano Works New Recordings Vol. 4 | Béla Bartók - György Sándor | 1995 | Album |
Solo Piano Works New Recordings Vol. 3 | Béla Bartók - György Sándor | 1995 | Album |
Solo Piano Works, Vol. III | Béla Bartók / György Sándor | 1995 | Album |
Solo Piano Works New Recordings Vol. 2 | Béla Bartók - György Sándor | 1995 | Album |
Solo Piano Works | Béla Bartók / György Sándor | 1995 | Album |
Piano Music (Complete) Vol. I Mikrokosmos | Béla Bartók - György Sándor | 1993 | Album |
Complete Solo Piano Music Volume 2 | György Sándor Plays Sergei Prokofiev | 1993 | Compil. |
Piano Music (Complete) Vol. I Mikrokosmos | Béla Bartók - György Sándor | 1993 | Album |
Complete Solo Piano Music Volume 1 | György Sándor Plays Sergei Prokofiev | 1993 | Compil. |
Piano Concerto No. 2 | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, György Sándor, Artur Rodzinski, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra | 1993 | Album |
Gyorgy Sandor Plays Bartok | Béla Bartók - György Sándor | 1992 | Compil. |
The 3 Piano Concertos | Béla Bartók, György Sándor, Hungarian State Orchestra, Adam Fischer | 1990 | Album |
Concerto For Orchestra (Piano Version) | György Sándor, Béla Bartók | 1988 | Album |
Concerto For Orchestra / Concerto No. 3 For Piano And Orchestra | Béla Bartók, György Sándor | 1986 | Album |
Concerto No. 3 For Piano And Orchestra | Béla Bartók ; György Sándor, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy | 1986 | Album |
Bartok And The Baroque. Transcriptions Of Italian Baroque Keyboard Music By Frescobaldi, Marcello, Rossi, Ciaia, and Zipoldi | György Sándor | 1984 | Album |
Mestres da Música | Manuel De Falla, György Sándor, Martin Galling, Orchestra Of Radio Luxembourg, Louis De Froment | 1983 | Album |
Sonata No. 15 In D Major, Op. 28 "Pastoral" A Chopin Recital | György Sándor - Ludwig van Beethoven | 1977 | Album |
Piano Music Of Liszt | György Sándor - Franz Liszt | 1977 | Album |
Carnival | György Sándor, Robert Schumann | 1977 | Album |
Complete Chamber Music | Zoltán Kodály, Chicago Symphony String Quartet, Laszlo Varga ; György Sándor, Susanne Lautenbacher & Adelheid Schaefer ; Ulrich Koch | 1975 | Album |
Works For Piano (Complete) | Zoltán Kodály, György Sándor | 1974 | Album |
Piano Music Volume 3 | Sergei Prokofiev, György Sándor | 1974 | Album |
Piano Music Volume 1 | Sergei Prokofiev, György Sándor | 1974 | Album |
Piano Music Volume 5 | Sergei Prokofiev, György Sándor | 1974 | Album |
A Timid Soul's Approach To Bartok | Béla Bartók, György Sándor | 1969 | Album |
Piano Music | Sergei Prokofiev, György Sándor | 1968 | Album |
Complete Solo Piano Music Volume I | Sergei Prokofiev - György Sándor | 1968 | Album |
Piano Quintet In A Major, B.155, Piano Trio In E Minor, B.166 ("Dumky") | Antonín Dvořák, György Sándor, Berkshire String Quartet, The Dumka Trio | 1968 | Album |
Piano Concerto No. 2 / Sonata For 2 Pianos And Percussion | Béla Bartók, György Sándor | 1967 | Album |
Piano Music (op. 84 & 103) | Sergei Prokofiev, György Sándor | 1967 | Album |
Piano Music | Sergei Prokofiev, György Sándor | 1967 | Album |
Piano Concerto No. 2 & Sonata For 2 Pianos And Percussion | Béla Bartók - György Sándor | 1967 | Album |
Piano Quintet In A Major, B.155 / Four Cypresses B. 152 | Antonín Dvořák, György Sándor, Berkshire String Quartet | 1965 | Album |
Piano Music, Volume III | Béla Bartók - György Sándor | 1963 | Album |
Piano Music, Volume II | Béla Bartók, György Sándor | 1962 | Album |
Piano Concerto N° 2 | György Sándor ; Südwestfunkorchester Baden-Baden - Rolf Reinhardt / Johannes Brahms | 1960 | Album |
Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 In C Minor For Piano And Orchestra Opus 18 | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, György Sándor With Artur Rodzinski Conducting The The New York Philharmonic Orchestra | 1960 | Album |
Piano Concerto N° 1 | Béla Bartók - György Sándor, Südwestfunkorchester Baden-Baden, Rolf Reinhardt | 1959 | Album |
Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3 | Béla Bartók – György Sándor | 1959 | Album |
Bela Bartok - Piano Music | György Sándor | 1954 | Album |
Schumann-Brahms Recital | György Sándor | 1951 | Album |
Chromatic Fantasia And Fugue In D Minor - Fantasia In C Minor / Overture In The French Manner (Partita No. 7 in B Minor) | Johann Sebastian Bach - György Sándor | 1950 | Album |
Concerto No. 3 For Piano And Orchestra / Symphony No. 21 In F-sharp Minor, Op. 51 | Béla Bartók / Nikolai Myaskovsky, György Sándor | 1949 | Album |
A Chopin Recital/Beethoven Sonata No. 15 in D Major, Op. 28 ("Pastorale") | György Sándor | 1949 | Single |
Piano Music Of Liszt | Franz Liszt, György Sándor | 1948 | Album |
Sonata In B Minor / Piano Music Of Liszt | Franz Liszt, György Sándor | 1948 | Album |
Piano Music, Volume II | Béla Bartók, György Sándor | Album | |
Sämtliche Klavierwerke (Für Solo-Klavier) | Sergei Prokofiev, György Sándor | Album | |
A Chopin Recital/Beethoven Sonata No. 15 In D Major, Op. 28 ("Pastorale") | György Sándor | Album | |
Schuman-Brahms Recital | György Sándor | Album | |
Mikrokosmos Vol. II Books III And IV | Béla Bartók, György Sándor | Album | |
Concerto No. 2 In C Minor For Piano And Orchestra Opus 18 | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff / György Sándor With Artur Rodzinski Conducting The New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Album | |
Bartok: Mikrokosmos Vol. 1 Books I And II | György Sándor | Album | |
Chopin Concerto No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 11 | György Sándor, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy | Album | |
Concerto No. 2 In C Minor For Piano And Orchestra Opus 18 | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff / György Sándor With Artur Rodzinski, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Album | |
Great Piano Concerti | Guiomar Novaes, Walter Klien, György Sándor, Alfred Brendel, Felicja Blumental, Orazio Frugoni | Album | |
Funerailles | György Sándor – Franz Liszt | Album | |
Mikrokosmos Vol. III Books V And VI | Béla Bartók, György Sándor | Album |