{"product_id":"szigeti-the-european-columbia-recordings-volume-2-1926-36-pasc660","title":"SZIGETI The European Columbia Recordings, Volume 2 (1926-36) - PASC660","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eViolin Concerto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWEBER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eViolin Sonata No. 3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ePAGANINI \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eCaprices\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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1926-1936\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 74:23\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eJoseph Szigeti\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;\"\u003eKurt Ruhrseitz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, piano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eNikita Magaloff\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, piano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eBritish Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eBruno Walter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC660.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nJoseph Szigeti was born in Budapest in 1892. After showing promise on the\nviolin at a very young age, he was accepted as a student by Jenő Hubay and\nmade his Berlin debut at thirteen. Shortly thereafter, he settled in\nEngland for several years. It was during this period that he met Ferruccio\nBusoni, who was to become a major influence in moving the young prodigy\nfrom being merely a talented virtuoso toward becoming a more intellectual\nand analytical musician.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nA stay in a Swiss sanatorium in 1913 to treat his tuberculosis introduced\nSzigeti to a fellow Hungarian who was to become another major influence on\nhim as a musician and a lifelong friend, Béla Bartók. Szigeti remained in\nSwitzerland for several years, teaching and expanding his facility in\nplaying chamber works. In 1925, he played for a visiting Leopold Stokowski,\nand was quickly invited to make his American debut. He shortly became\nestablished internationally as a concert artist. He settled in the USA in\n1940, and continued his concert career for another twenty years before\nretiring to write and teach. He died in 1973.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nSzigeti’s earliest recordings were made in England for the Gramophone and\nTypewriter Company between 1908 and 1913. He made no further discs during\nthe acoustic era, save for a handful recorded in Russia in either 1924 or\n1926. In the latter year, he began an association with English Columbia\nthat lasted for eleven years, with one session for their Japanese affiliate\nin 1931 that produced four sides. In 1938, he began recording for American\nColumbia, where he remained until 1956, with one set (the Bloch Concerto)\ndone for French Columbia in 1939, a single disc made for the American New\nMusic Quarterly label in 1941, and a return to English Columbia for four\nsides in 1946. His final recordings were made for Mercury in 1959-61.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThis series will present all of the Columbia recordings he made in Britain,\nFrance and Japan, as well as the one New Music Quarterly disc, as a\ncomplement to Sony’s recent set comprising his American Columbia\nrecordings. From the 1940s onward, Szigeti began to experience increasing\ntechnical problems. American Columbia passed on releasing his 1955-56\nrecordings of Bach Sonatas and Partitas as well as several contemporaneous\nLPs’ worth of Mozart Sonatas, which were only issued later by Vanguard.\nSzigeti himself ruefully referred to his final Mercury LPs as his\n“posthumous recordings”. The performances featured here and in the coming\nvolumes are generally judged to be his finest on disc.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nOur second volume focuses on Classical and early Romantic repertoire.\nSzigeti recorded the Beethoven concerto three times, twice with Bruno\nWalter conducting. Their New York remake of fifteen years later is quite\nsimilar in concept to the 1932 London version presented here, even down to\nthe timings (the last two movements are each within a second of each other,\nwhile the first differs by a few more seconds due to a variant at the end\nof the cadenza). Szigeti’s earlier performance has a headlong forward\nmomentum which was somewhat lacking in the later, somewhat more cautious\nversion.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe Paganini Caprices come from a transitional period when violinists were\nbeginning to leave behind the Ferdinand David-composed piano accompaniments\nand to play them as the composer originally intended. Both versions of\nCaprice No. 24 used the piano arrangement. The first from 1926 was shorn of\nrepeats in order to fit it on two ten-inch sides. Two years later, Szigeti\nwould remake it complete on a twelve-inch disc. The other two Caprices made\na few years later were played without accompaniment. Szigeti would not\nreturn to this repertoire subsequently in his recording career, so their\npresence here is doubly valuable.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMark Obert-Thorn\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\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\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003eJOSEPH SZIGETI\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e The European Columbia Recordings, Volume 2\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n(Cadenzas: Joachim)\u003cbr\u003e1. 1st Mvt. – Allegro ma non troppo (22:19)\u003cbr\u003e2. 2nd Mvt. – Larghetto (9:48)\u003cbr\u003e3. 3rd Mvt. – Rondo: Allegro (9:37)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 14 April 1932 in Central Hall, Westminster ∙ Matrices: CAX 6388-3,\n6389-2, 6390-2, 6391-1, 6392-2, 6393-2, 6394-2, 6395-2, 6396-1 \u0026amp; 6397-2\n∙ First issued on Columbia LX 174\/8\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN (arr. Burmeister) Minuet in G\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eG167, No. 2\n(2:27)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 9 July 1926 in the Columbia Petty France Studio, London ∙ Matrix: WA\n3540-3 ∙ First issued on Columbia D 1527\n\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.\n\u003cstrong\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN Allegro vivace\u003c\/span\u003e from Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op. 30,\nNo. 3\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n(3:12)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 30 June 1927 in the Columbia Petty France Studio, London ∙ Matrix:\nWA 5802 ∙ First issued on Columbia D 1630\n\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.\n\n\u003cstrong\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eSCHUBERT (\u003ci\u003earr. Friedberg\u003c\/i\u003e) Rondo\u003c\/span\u003e from Piano Sonata No. 17 in D\nmajor, Op. 53 (D850)\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\n(4:53)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 31 May 1933 in Abbey Road Studio No. 3, London ∙ Matrix: CAX\n6850-1 ∙ First issued on Columbia LX 630\n\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWEBER (arr. 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