Release Date: 12 January 2000
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4891030501256
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Romantic Violin Favourites
Description
Romantic Violin Favourites Popular Transcriptionsby Fritz Kreisler (1875 - 1962)Ballet Music from Rosamunde - Franz Schubert Adagietto from L' Arlesienne -Georges Bizet Hymn to the Sun from The Golden Cockerel - Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov Largo (Ombra mai fu) from Serse - George Frideric Handel Hindu Song from Sadko - NikolayRimsky-Korsakov Songs My Mother Taught Me (Gypsy Song No.4) - Antonin Dvorak Oriental Dance from Sheherazade - Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov Arabian Song from Sheherazade -Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov Melody (Dance of the Blessed Spirits) - Christoph Willibald von Gluck Gypsy Rondo from Piano Trio in G - Joseph Haydn Austrian Imperial Hymn - JosephHaydn Rondo from the Haffner Serenade - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Romance from Opus 94 - RobertSchumann To the Spring from Lyric Pieces - Edvard Grieg Tambourin - Jean-PhilippeRameau Molly on the Shore - PercyGrainger Song of the Volga Boatmen - Traditional Londonderry Air - TraditionalFritz Kreisler was born in 1875 in Vienna, and died 87 years later inNew York. He was one of the most popular violinists since the time of Paganini,renowned for his apparently effortless skill and unerring fluency.As a boy Kreisler took lessons first from his father, a doctor and enthusiasticamateur musician, and entered the Vienna Conservatory at the phenomenally earlyage of seven, studying there under Joseph Hellmesberger and taking theorylessons from Anton Bruckner. He later moved to Paris where he became a pupil ofMassart, Wieniawski's teacher. From the age of twelve, when he was one of thejoint winners of the first prize at the Paris Conservatoire, playing athree-quarter size Amati violin, he had no further lessons.The following years brought an interruption in w hat was ultimately tobe his career. After touring America, Kreisler returned to school in Vienna,followed by a brief study of medicine and military service. Settling finally onmusic rather than medicine, he attempted the audition for the Vienna CourtOpera in 1896, but failed, apparently through deficiencies in his sense ofrhythm. He followed this reverse with renewed concentration on solo work. Twoyears later his career began, with the greatest success, particularly when heresumed his international appearances in 1919. After the Anschluss he movedpermanently to the United States of America, where he died in 1962.Kreisler's playing was in many ways ahead of his time, particularly inhis characteristic and constant use of vibrato, a practice that had earlierbeen thought unmusical. His bowing technique avoided unnecessary use of thewhole bow, once thought essential, and he possessed a happy disbelief in thevalue of practice, something he described as simply a bad habit.For his own use Kreisler wrote and arranged a considerable amount ofmusic. He provided transcriptions of a number of popular melodies of all kindsand to this added a number of alleged transcriptions that were, in fact,pastiche compositions of his own, written In imitation of the composers who
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
