A selection of recordings made by French pianist Janine Weill on the Decca label in 1930:
Chopin: Valses Nos.1 in D-Flat Major & 2 in C-Sharp Minor
Liszt: Liebesträume No.3 (4:38)
Recorded: May 1, 1930
Granados: Danzas Españolas No.5 (8:45)
Albéniz: Sous le palmier (12:05)
Recorded: April 30, 1930
Debussy:
Clair de lune (rec. April 30) (14:56)
La soirée dans Grenade (19:12)
Jardins sous la pluie (rec. June 11) (23:32)
Children’s Corner Suite (rec. April 30 & June 11) (26:47)
Préludes livre I: La cathédrale engloutie (rec. May 1) (40:27)
La plus que lente (45:05)
Born in Paris on January 13, 1897 (not February 1 as has been written in some sources), she was a pupil of Marguerite Long but not Alfred Cortot (though this has been published elsewhere) - she got her 1er Prix in 1915. She ranked amongst Ravel’s G Major Concerto’s first performers (as should be expected from a Long student, since Marguerite Long, both as a dedicatee and a teacher, was very much concerned with leaving her own stamp on the work).
Weill made a number of recordings for Decca in the 1930s - this clip lacks a few but this is a significant portion and all that I could locate. The playing throughout is marvellous, with wonderful full-bodied tone, terrific timing as regards rhythm and rubato, creative and attentive voicing (note the left hand in the Chopin Waltzes, for example), and transparent textures.
A rather amusing and unusual incident reported in Time magazine:
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Janine Weill died in Clamart on December 7, 1983
The March 13, 1934 illustration here entitled “La pianiste Janine Weill jouant du Schumann à l’Athénée“ was drawn by Albert Schmidt; it is housed at the MAH Musée d’art d’histoire, Ville de Genève, a gift from Claude and David Schmidt in 2001.
Many thanks to Frederic Gaussin for providing invaluable information for this posting.
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