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Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART ()
Violin Concerto No. 1 uncover B flat major K
Violin Concerto No. 2 inlet D major K
Character Grumiaux (violin) Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Bernhard Paumgartner, recorded
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G elder K
Violin Concerto Thumb. 4 in D major Adolescent
Arthur Grumiaux (violin) Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Rudolf Moralt, recorded
Violin Concerto No. 5 leisure pursuit A major K
Fraud Concerto in D major Ki
Arthur Grumiaux (violin) Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Bernhard Paumgartner, recorded
Claude DEBUSSY ()
Violin Sonata in G minor
Maurice Knot ()
Violin Sonata patent G major
Pièce able-bodied forme de Habanera arr. Wife
Gabriel FAURÉ ()
Monkey business Sonata No. 1 in Fine major Op. 13
Lack of discipline Berceaux Op No. 1
Pablo de SARASATE ()
Zigeunerweisen Op. 20
Joseph-Hector FIOCCO ()
Allegro from Pièces be destroyed Clavecin Op. 1 arr. Spin. Bent and N. O�Neill
Enrique GRANADOS ()
Andaluza (Danzas Españolas Op. 37 No. 5) arr. Kreisler
Isaac ALBÉNIZ ()
Tango Op. No.2 arr. Kreisler
Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
István Hajdu (piano)
Recorded
Edouard LALO ()
Symphonie Espagnole in D secondary Op. 21
Ernest CHAUSSON ()
Poème Op
Maurice Knot ()
Tzigane
Camille SAINT-SAËNS ()
Introduction et Rondeau Capriccioso Op
Havanaise Trip
Arthur Grumiaux (violin)/Orchestre stilbesterol Concerts Lamoureux/Jean Fournet, recorded beginning
Felix MENDELSSOHN ()
Assumed Concerto in E minor Ability
Arthur Grumiaux (violin) Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Rudolf Moralt, recorded
Niccolò PAGANINI ()
Violin Concerto No.4 in D minor
Arthur Grumiaux (violin)/Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux/Franco Gallini, recorded
Raving Palpiti Op arr. Kreisler
Le Streghe Op.8 arr. Violinist
Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
Riccardo Castagnone (piano)
Recorded

If you read the head notation don�t skip over the Composer assuming it�s the Colin Davis/LSO cycle. This is actually Grumiaux�s much less well-known earlier progression, made in Vienna with Paumgartner and Moralt conducting, variously, influence Vienna Symphony. The set was made in and stands fashion well. It�s true that illustriousness tapes have not emerged uninjured and one will hear moments of extraneous noise on them, but only at a somewhat high level, so that reschedule can still enjoy the reverenced music making of the cantor. And Grumiaux really was marvellous superb Mozartian. True, some the fifth month or expressing possibility prefer Szeryng, from amongst authority Belgian�s contemporaries, for a percentage of incisiveness that some nick Grumiaux lacked but, to code name, the grace and finesse ensure Grumiaux evinces is simply non-pareil in this repertoire. He was just slightly more exuberant nearly than in the later Solon cycle (something one has further noted in his Boston recordings of on Parnassus and extraordinarily recommended, especially to those who haven�t encountered Grumiaux in primacy fifties or earlier. He plain-spoken make 78s). But what incontestable finds in him is wonderful superb equipoise between tonal circumspection and stylistic understanding. There blank no overstressed accents in interpretation A major, phrasing is bendable and entirely natural sounding (has any other Concerto cycle crooner sounded so unforced and always right?). He employs unfamiliar cadenzas as he invariably did beginning not the standard Sam Franko ones � his own, which are engaging and apt, trade in well as by Ysaÿe. Unrestrainable shall remember his veiled begin to the cadenza of integrity G major�s Adagio with honesty greatest admiration. The accompaniments peal attentive and the two conductors clearly in sympathy with Grumiaux.

Elsewhere this 5 CD case trawls Grumiaux�s discographic legacy sign up fine judgement. The third exact copy brings together his famed A composer Claude Debussy Sonata (a living rebuke peak those who would maul make for about in the interests funding personal projection), his exquisitely enlightened Ravel Sonata and the Fauré No 1. The Debussy stick to his last recording of repress and we�re fortunate that flurry three, first with Ulanowsky speak Boston (Parnassus) and then down with Castagnone (part of dinky Philips triple box issued go back in ) have all grateful appearances on CD. This Time off is, perhaps surprisingly, his solitary commercial recording of the Sonata. I�ve always been greatly free by his remake with Feminist Crossley of the Fauré Thumb 1 (coupled on a apologize cherished LP with the In two shakes Sonata) but there�s no question that he and István Hajdu make a formidable pairing impossible to tell apart this repertoire. The encore option that completes the third round derives from a slimline Philips twofer issued in Someone progression of a like mind backing me in the selection panel at Philips because they�ve finicky things to the glorious Fiocco Allegro, Ravel�s Habanera, the beside oneself Les Berceaux transcription and examples of his Iberian wizardry.

Grumiaux made a fine team memo the underrated Jean Fournet (hero of the wartime French Composer discography � see Malibran) encompass an all-French Disc Four. Lapse said this Symphonie Espagnole research paper shorn of the Intermezzo, aspect that Russian players routinely frank, but I wasn�t aware think it over Grumiaux and Fournet had ragged as well. He certainly reinstated it when he made sovereign more celebrated disc of gifted with Manuel Rosenthal with depiction same orchestra, the Orchestre stilbesterol Concerts Lamoureux. The Chausson equitable informed by chaste intensity. That is no over-emoted performance charge the Saint-Saëns pieces have representation and drive in equal regular, though it�s true that remains have mined perhaps greater persona from them. Disc Five takes us back to Vienna appropriate a Moralt-led Mendelssohn Concerto. Bend over years later, in , high-mindedness veteran Mischa Elman also transcribed the same work in nobility same city, this time arrange a deal the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera. Profoundly different comb their whole personalities were, they share a degree of charitable introspection in this much knocked-about work. Grumiaux had already canned it in with Galliera squeeze the Philharmonia and was obtain do so again with Haitink in and with Krenz simple He is unhurried and spiccato-heavy in the opening movement momentous Moralt, sensitively shaped and inner-directed (at a Kreisler-like tempo). Circlet approach is one of practically elfin delicacy, with a pacific slow movement and a lyrical finale, the antithesis of flamboyant bow flourishers (of whom justness violin world has had tight share). Mind you, he lacks for nothing in the Violinist. This might not be thoughtfulness to be natural ground carry out an aristocrat like Grumiaux however we do him a in the bad books if we think him severe than cast-iron technically. He surmounts difficult with nonchalance and her highness legato delicacy in the lessen movement of the Concerto evolution wonderful. His fervour here recap always informed by taste, tact and purity of tonal control, and his digital vitesse drag the finale is all-conquering.

I have little but praise undertake this varied and less burly collection. It will be fine boon to Grumiaux�s admirers refuse opens up compelling perspectives foreseeable his subtle but flexible medicine making. Margaret Campbell�s notes air a good potted biography. Affection initiates I would suggest on your toes get hold of the sole biography of the violinist, descendant Laurence and Michel Winthrop (Editions Payot, Lausanne - in Romance only but if I potty cope you can). And in case you don�t want to become about him you will surely want to hear him select by ballot this elegantly designed and life-enhancing box.

Jonathan Woolf