P0685. MINDRU KATZ, w.Yuval Zaliouk Cond. BBC Welsh S.O.: Concerto #22 in E-flat, K.482 (Mozart), Live Performance, 31 Dec., 1974; w.Yuval Zaliouk Cond. BBC Scottish S.O.: Concerto #2 in f (Chopin), Live Performance, 31 May, 1975. Cembal d’Amour 142. - 798167997225

CRITIC REVIEWS: “The name of Mindru Katz is by now most probably a bell-ringer only for connoisseurs of great pianism. Katz didn’t make a large number of commercial records, and those he did make enjoyed only selective Eastern Bloc circulation….Posterity owes a great debt to intrepid labels like Cembal d’Amour for their dedicated collection, rehabilitation, and publication of rare privately-made aircheck documentation of great but under-recorded virtuosos like Katz….[The Chopin concerto] is not only beautiful; it’s manly and exciting, downright Byronic – and it is now the interpretation by which I shall measure all other recordings.”

- William Trotter, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, Nov./Dec., 2009

“Mindru Katz’s recordings are highly valued. In their subtlety and integrity, his readings often seem akin to those of his fellow Musicescu pupil, Dinu Lipatti….he remains a discovery to be cherished.”

– Colin Clarke, CLASSIC RECORD COLLECTOR, Winter, 2008

“Mordecai Shehori has managed to obtain many of Katz’s original tape recordings and is carefully releasing them on his own label….I feel that Katz may be one of the greatest over-looked pianists of the mid 1900s.”

- James Harrington, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, July/Aug., 2010