Brazilian pianist Guiomar Novaes was described by her teacher Isidore Philipp as, ''by far the best pupil he had ever nursed to the concert stage.'' Novaes shot to fame as a teenager and immediately became a star pianist, particularly in the USA where she settled. She recorded well into the LP era but by common consent her greatest recordings are considered to be the 78-rpm discs she made in her youth. Here, for the first time, all are reissued together.