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Joseph Szigeti - The Mercury Masters

Joseph Szigeti

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Format: 6CD

Cat No: ELQ4843756

Release Date:  24 February 2023

Label:  Australian Eloquence

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  6

Barcode:  028948437566

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

  • Description

    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'. Issued internationally and complete, for the first time on CD in this Limited Edition original-jackets collection, these Mercury recordings were made in New York and London during the autumn of Szigeti's career, between 1959 and 1961.

    The original Mercury tapes have been given new high-definition transfers at Abbey Road Studios, and then remastered by Thomas Fine.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. BRAHMS Horn Trio (John Barrows/ Mieczyslaw Horszowski)
      • 2. Violin Sonata No. 2

      Disc 2

      • 1. BRAHMS Violin Concerto (Herbert Menges)

      Disc 3

      • 1. PROKOFIEV Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 (Artur Balsam)

      Disc 4

      • 1. BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto (Antal Doráti)

      Disc 5

      • 1. PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1 (Herbert Menges)
      • 2. STRAVINSKY Duo Concertant (Roy Bogas)

      Disc 6

      • 1. HONEGGER Violin Sonata No. 1 (Roy Bogas)
      • 2. WEBERN Four Pieces, Op. 7
      • 3. DEBUSSY Violin Sonata
      • 4. IVES Violin Sonata No. 4
      • 5. BARTÓK Violin Sonata No. 2