匈牙利小提琴宗師~西格提 / Mercury錄音大全集 (原始封面精裝限量版)

小提琴大師Szigeti晚年加盟Mercury唱片公司,於紐約與倫敦錄製了六張專輯,本發行完整收錄這六張專輯,皆以精美印刷的原始封面收納,小提琴音樂的一套重量級發行!
 
Romanticist and classicist, modernist and conservative, the violinist Joseph Szigeti defied classification. His wide repertoire ranged from Bach to Bartók and beyond, and he played it all with skill and understanding, becoming known as ‘the thinking man’s virtuoso’. His distinctively Hungarian portamenti and wide vibrato gave his playing a singing, breathing, easeful quality worlds away from the high-pressure Russian school. He made a lovely sound, yet the musical line and rhythmic pulse came first with him.

These Mercury recordings were made in New York and London during the autumn of Szigeti’s career, between 1959 and 1961. The violinist and his wife Wanda had emigrated to the US in 1940. By then his technique was less flexible, though his spirit and expressive power were undimmed. They include standard-repertoire concertos and sonatas – cherishable performances of Beethoven and Brahms – but also many accounts of the 20th-century masters whom he had known and worked with directly.

Szigeti was among the first to perform the Debussy and Ravel Sonatas, and won the approval of Prokofiev for his playing of the composer’s First Concerto. He premièred the First Rhapsody which Bartók had written for him, and they gave many recitals together. He had always wanted to record Bartók’s Second Sonata with the composer in the studio. Somehow it never happened and ironically this version with Roy Bogas was unpublished at the time: later released on the Philips label, it makes its digital début here. Szigeti's association with Ives went back to the Thirties, when he played the Fourth Sonata often in concert and recorded it, thus becoming one of the first musicians to record Ives.
The original Mercury tapes have been given a new high-definition transfer at Abbey Road Studios, and then remastered by Thomas Fine, son of the Mercury producer Wilma Cozart Fine and the label’s founder, Robert Fine. This original jacket collection also features a new appreciation of Szigeti by Tully Potter.
 
曲目:
CD 1
BRAHMS Horn Trio
Violin Sonata No. 2
John Barrows ∙ Mieczysław Horszowski
 
CD 2
BRAHMS Violin Concerto
Herbert Menges
 
CD 3
PROKOFIEV Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2
Artur Balsam
 
CD 4
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
Antal Doráti
 
CD 5
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1
Herbert Menges
STRAVINSKY Duo Concertant
Roy Bogas
 
CD6
HONEGGER Violin Sonata No. 1
WEBERN Four Pieces, Op. 7
DEBUSSY Violin Sonata
IVES Violin Sonata No. 4
BARTÓK Violin Sonata No. 2
Roy Bogas