Works: Tommaso Antonio Vitali: Chaconne in G minor; Fritz Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani; Grave in the style of W. F. Bach, for violin & piano in C minor; Menuet in the style of Po...
Performers:
Balsam, Artur; Francescatti, Zino Conductors:
Ormandy, Eugene
Zino Francescatti succeeded Jacques Thibaud in the second half of the 20th century as the French violinist par excellence. His suave refinement and elegant phrasing...continue...
Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio for Piano and Strings no 3 in E major, K 542; Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano in E flat major, K 498 "Kegelstatt"; Trio for Piano and Strings no 5 in G major, K 564; ...
Performers:
Hobday, Ethel; Kiddle, Frederick B.; Leger, Frank St.; Rosovsky, Zoia; Sammons, Albert; Tertis, Lionel
Today violists the world over think of Lionel Tertis as the man who brought the hitherto humble viola into the limelight and made it into...continue...
Works: Joseph-Hector Fiocco: Pièces de clavecin, Op. 1; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Violin no 3 in G major, K 216; Max Bruch: Concerto for Violin no 1 in G minor, Op. 26; Johann Sebastian B...
Performers:
Eisenberg, Maurice; Giesen, Hubert; Menuhin, Hephzibah; Menuhin, Yehudi; Persinger, Louis Conductors:
Enescu, Georges; Ronald, Landon, Sir; Barbirolli, John, Sir Ensemble:
London Symphony Orchestra; New York Philharmonic; Paris Symphony Orchestra