{"product_id":"busch-serkin-at-the-library-of-congress-brahms-busch-schubert-1944-48-pacm114","title":"BUSCH \u0026 SERKIN at the Library of Congress - Brahms, Busch, Schubert (1944-48) - PACM114","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSTAFFORD SMITH\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e The Star-Spangled Banner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBRAHMS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eViolin Sonata No. 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSCHUBERT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eRondo Brillant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBUSCH \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eViolin Sonata No. 2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eLive recordings, 1944-48\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 67:45\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eAdolf Busch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, violin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eRudolf Serkin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, piano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PACM114.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nThe recordings that survive on acetate discs of Adolf Busch and Rudolf\nSerkin performing at the Library of Congress hardly reflect the richness\nand variety of the recitals that the two musicians gave here from 1933\nonwards. They performed there more than twenty times, quickly forming a\nclose friendship with Gertrude Clarke Whittall, who donated five\nStradivaris and Tourte bows to the library, to \"be played by many different\nmusicians.\"\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nBusch had met Serkin, then only a teenager, in 1920. Soon, they were\nperforming in the leading European concert halls and making a series of now\nlegendary recordings. Despite their difference of age, theirs was an\nunderstanding relationship of equals; Serkin was no mere accompanist but a\ntrue partner, and the pieces he and Busch excelled in reflected this\ndemocratic approach. Although the classics such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven,\nSchubert and Brahms, some of which had already been recorded by His\nMaster’s Voice in the 1930s, frequently featured in their programming,\nBusch and Serkin also brought to the library works less frequently heard,\nsuch as the music by Robert Schumann, Max Reger and Ildebrando Pizzetti.\nTheir speciality, however, were the Beethoven Violin Sonatas, which were\nheard in their entirety twice, in 1937 and 1938 respectively, plus in\nseveral individual performances (see PACM 104).\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe only work on this disc that Busch and Serkin had previously recorded in\nthe HMV Studios in England was Brahms’s G major Sonata, Op. 78, a work that\nBusch had played in concert from the 1910s, in a total of more than 70\nperformances, with pianists such as Max Reger, Leonard Borwick, Elly Ney,\nEdwin Fischer, Artur Schnabel, and of course Rudolf Serkin. Compared with\nthe 1931 studio recording, we have a less polished, but more lively\nrendering from the performers’ prime period, the concert situation adding\naudibly to the intensity of the performance.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nA work that Busch and Serkin never recorded in the studio as it was\nunsuited to the short shellac disc sides, but frequently performed in\nconcert, was Franz Schubert’s B minor Rondo brillant of 1826. Compared with\nthe 1943 performance, also from the Library of Congress and released by\nMusic \u0026amp; Arts, they take in 1948 a much more expansive, almost leisurely\napproach.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe concert on 7 October 1944 opened with a newly written arrangement of\nthe American National Anthem for violin and piano written by Busch, which\nwas only but infrequently performed and which has survived on record only\nonce. The firmness of the tone, the interpretative conviction behind the\ntune testifies to Busch's and Serkin's clear position in their new homeland\n(both became American citizens in 1950, having emigrated from Switzerland\nin 1939).\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nAdolf Busch’s Violin Sonata in A minor was composed in 1941 and received\nits premiere performance on 10 December 1946 at the Library of Congress\nconcerts. The work is not only Busch’s most mature composition for violin\nand piano, but also his most ambitious one, and never has a recorded\nperformance of this work been so electrifying as the world premiere\nperformance, bringing to light the best qualities of Busch’s composing and\nperforming. The expressive intensity that both interpreters bring to the\nmusic gives it a depth that remains unbroken at every moment. The\nsimplicity of the slow movement is comparable to Reger’s slow movements,\nbut shadowed in the light of the time when it was composed (comparable only\nto that of Reger’s last Violin Sonata, the slow movement of which Busch\nperformed in 1916 at Reger’s funeral service together with his brother\nFritz).\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Jürgen Schaarwächter\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eBuschBrothersArchive in the Max-Reger-Institut, Karlsruhe\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBUSCH \u0026amp; SERKIN\u003c\/b\u003e at the Library of Congress\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSTAFFORD SMITH\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e(arr. Busch)\u003c\/span\u003e The Star-Spangled Banner\u003c\/span\u003e  (1:26)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003erecorded 7 October 1944, première release\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBRAHMS \u003c\/b\u003eViolin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. 1st mvt. - Vivace, ma non troppo  (9:15)\u003cbr\u003e3. 2nd mvt. - Adagio  (8:04)\u003cbr\u003e4. 3rd mvt. - Allegro molto moderato  (9:17)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003erecorded 7 October 1944, première release\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSCHUBERT \u003c\/b\u003eRondo brillant in B minor Op. 70, D895\u003c\/span\u003e  (13:19)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003erecorded 16 January 1948, première release\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBUSCH \u003c\/b\u003eViolin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, Op. 56\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. 1st mvt. - Allegro ma non troppo  (10:02)\u003cbr\u003e7. 2nd mvt. - Adagio ed espressivo  (6:01)\u003cbr\u003e8. 3rd mvt. - Molto vivace, quasi presto  (2:00)\u003cbr\u003e9. 4th mvt. - Allegretto amabile  (8:17)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003erecorded 10 December 1946, première performance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eAll recordings made in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington (D.C.)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdolf Busch\u003c\/b\u003e, violin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRudolf Serkin\u003c\/b\u003e, piano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eXR Remastered by Andrew Rose\u003cbr\u003eCover artwork based on a photograph of Adolf Busch \u0026amp; 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