Oscar Shumsky plays Mozart - Violin Concerto no.5, etc. | Biddulph 850062

Oscar Shumsky plays Mozart - Violin Concerto no.5, etc.

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Label: Biddulph

Cat No: 850062

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 15th October 2021

Contents

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Mass in B minor, BWV232
» Benedictus
» Laudamus Te

Firestone, Idabelle

Do You Recall?

Massenet, Jules

Thais
» Meditation

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Il re pastore, K208
» L'amero, saro costante
Violin Concerto no.5 in A major, K219 'Turkish'

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Songs (6), op.4
» no.3 In the Silence of the Secret Night
» no.4 Sing not to me, beautiful maiden
Songs (15), op.26
» no.7 To the children
» no.10 Before my Window

Schumann, Robert

Kinderszenen, op.15
» no.7 Traumerei (arr. Al Goodman)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Swan Lake, op.20
» Pas de deux (Act 2)

Artists

Oscar Shumsky (violin)
June Gardner (soprano)
Lucius Metz (tenor)
Erna Berger (soprano)
George Schick (piano)
James Melton (tenor)
Carol Hollister (piano)
Little Orchestra Society
RCA Victor Orchestra
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
American Radio Transcription Orchestra
Voice of Firestone Orchestra
Al Goodman and his Orchestra

Conductors

Thomas Scherman
Robert Shaw
Joseph Levine
Alfonso D’Artega
Howard Barlow

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Mass in B minor, BWV232
» Benedictus
» Laudamus Te

Firestone, Idabelle

Do You Recall?

Massenet, Jules

Thais
» Meditation

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Il re pastore, K208
» L'amero, saro costante
Violin Concerto no.5 in A major, K219 'Turkish'

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Songs (6), op.4
» no.3 In the Silence of the Secret Night
» no.4 Sing not to me, beautiful maiden
Songs (15), op.26
» no.7 To the children
» no.10 Before my Window

Schumann, Robert

Kinderszenen, op.15
» no.7 Traumerei (arr. Al Goodman)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Swan Lake, op.20
» Pas de deux (Act 2)

Artists

Oscar Shumsky (violin)
June Gardner (soprano)
Lucius Metz (tenor)
Erna Berger (soprano)
George Schick (piano)
James Melton (tenor)
Carol Hollister (piano)
Little Orchestra Society
RCA Victor Orchestra
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
American Radio Transcription Orchestra
Voice of Firestone Orchestra
Al Goodman and his Orchestra

Conductors

Thomas Scherman
Robert Shaw
Joseph Levine
Alfonso D’Artega
Howard Barlow

About

This CD offers Oscar Shumsky’s first commercial recording of Mozart’s Violin Concerto no.5 in A, K219, made originally for the Music Appreciation Society in 1955. This work has a special place in Shumsky’s repertoire as he performed this concerto with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra when he was only eight years old. As it turns out, this work would also feature as Shumsky’s first digital concerto recording after making his triumphant comeback in the UK in 1981.

This CD also includes all the RCA Victor recordings of Shumsky playing solo violin obbligato in arias and songs. These include the two magnificent arias – Laudamus te and Benedictus – from Bach’s Mass in B minor, L’amero saro costante with the German soprano Erna Berger, and four Rachmaninov songs with the American tenor James Melton.

Shumsky ravishingly plays two beloved violin solos from the stage: the famous Pas de deux from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, and Massenet’s Méditation from the opera Thaïs. The Tchaikovsky was a private recording made especially for the conductor Joseph Levine with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. The Massenet with orchestral accompaniment receives its first CD release.

Shumsky forays into music of a lighter vein in the previously unissued release of a popular song Do you Recall? composed by Idabelle Firestone, the wife of the American tyre magnate Harvey Firestone. The Firestone Hour on radio and later television brought music to millions of US households following the Second World War. The CD concludes with a luscious arrangement for solo violin and orchestra of Schumann’s Träumerei by Al Goodman accompanied by his Orchestra.

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