Joseph Szigeti: Milestones of a Violin Legend | Documents 600465

Joseph Szigeti: Milestones of a Violin Legend

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Label: Documents

Cat No: 600465

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 10

Release Date: 13th July 2018

Contents

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Partita for solo violin no.3 in E major, BWV1006
» I Preludio
Sonata for solo violin no.3 in C major, BWV1005
Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV1052
Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV1056

Bartok, Bela

Contrasts, Sz111 BB116
Hungarian Folk Tunes (arr. Szigeti)
Rhapsody no.1 for violin and piano, BB94a
Romanian Folk Dances (6) for piano, Sz56 BB68 (arr. Zoltan Szekely for violin and piano)

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Violin Concerto in D major, op.61
Violin Sonata no.5 in F major, op.24 'Spring'
Violin Sonata no.6 in A major, op.30 no.1
Violin Sonata no.7 in C minor, op.30 no.2
Violin Sonata no.9 in A major, op.47 'Kreutzer'
Violin Sonata no.10 in G major, op.96

Berg, Alban

Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel'

Bloch, Ernest

Baal Shem (version for violin and piano)
Violin Concerto in A minor

Brahms, Johannes

Piano Quartet no.3 in C minor, op.60
Piano Trio no.2 in C major, op.87
Violin Concerto in D major, op.77

Corelli, Arcangelo

Violin Sonatas (12), op.5
» no.12 in G minor 'La Folia' (arr. Leonard)

Debussy, Claude

Suite bergamasque
» III Clair de Lune (arr. for violin & piano)

Handel, George Frideric

Violin Sonata in D major, op.1 no.13 HWV371

Hindemith, Paul

Violin Sonata in E major

Lalo, Edouard

Le Roi d'Ys
» Aubade (arr. Szigeti)

Mendelssohn, Felix

Violin Concerto in E minor, op.64

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Violin Concerto no.4 in D major, K218

Prokofiev, Sergei

Violin Concerto no.1 in D major, op.19

Ravel, Maurice

Violin Sonata no.2 in G major

Stravinsky, Igor

Duo concertant
Pastorale

Tartini, Giuseppe

Violin Concerto in D minor
Violin Sonatas (12), op.2
» no.12 in G major

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Valse sentimentale, op.51 no.6 (arr. Grunes)

Artists

Joseph Szigeti (violin)
Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano)
Carlo Bussotti (piano)
Bela Bartok (piano)
Igor Stravinsky (piano)
Benny Goodman (clarinet)
Myra Hess (piano)
Andor Foldes (piano)

Conductors

Thomas Beecham
Dmitri Mitropoulos

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Partita for solo violin no.3 in E major, BWV1006
» I Preludio
Sonata for solo violin no.3 in C major, BWV1005
Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV1052
Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV1056

Bartok, Bela

Contrasts, Sz111 BB116
Hungarian Folk Tunes (arr. Szigeti)
Rhapsody no.1 for violin and piano, BB94a
Romanian Folk Dances (6) for piano, Sz56 BB68 (arr. Zoltan Szekely for violin and piano)

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Violin Concerto in D major, op.61
Violin Sonata no.5 in F major, op.24 'Spring'
Violin Sonata no.6 in A major, op.30 no.1
Violin Sonata no.7 in C minor, op.30 no.2
Violin Sonata no.9 in A major, op.47 'Kreutzer'
Violin Sonata no.10 in G major, op.96

Berg, Alban

Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel'

Bloch, Ernest

Baal Shem (version for violin and piano)
Violin Concerto in A minor

Brahms, Johannes

Piano Quartet no.3 in C minor, op.60
Piano Trio no.2 in C major, op.87
Violin Concerto in D major, op.77

Corelli, Arcangelo

Violin Sonatas (12), op.5
» no.12 in G minor 'La Folia' (arr. Leonard)

Debussy, Claude

Suite bergamasque
» III Clair de Lune (arr. for violin & piano)

Handel, George Frideric

Violin Sonata in D major, op.1 no.13 HWV371

Hindemith, Paul

Violin Sonata in E major

Lalo, Edouard

Le Roi d'Ys
» Aubade (arr. Szigeti)

Mendelssohn, Felix

Violin Concerto in E minor, op.64

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Violin Concerto no.4 in D major, K218

Prokofiev, Sergei

Violin Concerto no.1 in D major, op.19

Ravel, Maurice

Violin Sonata no.2 in G major

Stravinsky, Igor

Duo concertant
Pastorale

Tartini, Giuseppe

Violin Concerto in D minor
Violin Sonatas (12), op.2
» no.12 in G major

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Valse sentimentale, op.51 no.6 (arr. Grunes)

Artists

Joseph Szigeti (violin)
Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano)
Carlo Bussotti (piano)
Bela Bartok (piano)
Igor Stravinsky (piano)
Benny Goodman (clarinet)
Myra Hess (piano)
Andor Foldes (piano)

Conductors

Thomas Beecham
Dmitri Mitropoulos

About

Legendary violinist Joseph Szigeti is known as one of the most interesting personalities in the history of the instrument. Writers of his time awarded him the “most elegant right arm of all living violinists”. This compilation of 15 original albums from the years 1932 to 1954 documents a part of his enormous repertoire and contains several recordings of the highest order. Szigeti plays, among others, Violin Concertos by Mozart and Mendelssohn in the highly acclaimed pairing with Thomas Beecham, as well as concertos by Bach, Tartini and Brahms.

Szigeti was open to bold musical innovations and vehemently supported contemporary music. Prokofiev regarded Szigeti as the ideal interpreter of his works and dedicated his First Violin Concerto to him (here under Beecham). He enjoyed a deep friendship with Bartók, who was in turn a great admirer of Szigeti’s art. Among the works the composer dedicated to the violinist were the Contrasts for piano, violin and clarinet. Stravinsky (Duo concertant and Pastorale) and Bloch are among the protagonists of classical modernism with whom Szigeti also maintained a particularly close relationship.

The chamber music highlights of this box are the sonatas by Bach, Beethoven (Horszowski), Handel and Tartini (Bussotti), the trio and quartet by Brahms (Festival in Prades) as well as Bartók’s Romanian Dances, Rhapsody No.1, and his Hungarian Folk Tunes. The passionate chamber musician Szigeti can be heard here alongside excellent and famous musicians, among them Igor Stravinsky and Bela Bartók, as well as Benny Goodman, Myra Hess, Mieczysław Horszowski and Andor Földes.

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