Tibor Bisztriczky; Wolfgang Schneiderhan
Release Date: 18 September 2015
Label: Eloquence
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948207275
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Virtuoso Violin
Description
A violinist who straddled the divide between the old ways and the new was the Viennese virtuoso Wolfgang Eduard Schneiderhan. He was born on 28 May 1915 and beginning violin lessons at five, he polished his technique under Sevcík and Winkler. From the 1950s onward, Schneiderhan displayed all the qualities normally associated with German musicians. He was scrupulously correct and serious about his calling: punctual, polite, always perfectly prepared. When he played, his attitude was unshowy and the music that emerged was shaped with a classical containment. He did his best to serve the composer by using a decent edition of the music and presenting it with due humility. This program, recorded with the American pianist Albert Hirsh, was issued by Deutsche Grammophon in 1958 on four 45rpm 'extended play' records and receives its first release on CD.
Also marking its CD debut is an extremely rare recording of violin encores by Tibor Bisztriczky, a typical member of the Hungarian school who was born at Arad, now in Romania, on 28 July 1908. He made few records, the best known being this ten-inch Deutsche Grammophon LP reproduced here, which changes hands for tidy sums. He was an excellent player who, as Tully Potter points out in his liner notes for this issue, had the misfortune to live in an era when Hungarian violinists were numerous.
Tracklisting
Dmitri Hvorostovsky; Various
Alfredo Campoli
Antal Dorati, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Deryck Cooke, Georg Solti; Vienna Philharmonic
Kenneth McKellar, Vera Lynn
Jeanne Demessieux; L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande
Orson Welles; Bing Crosby; Charles Laughton
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; Isidore Godfrey
Plamena Nikitassova; Les Elemens
Patrick Him, Kirsten Docter, Shuai Want, John Diodati, Paul Vaillancourt, Catherine Ramirez, Jennet
Nicolas Altstaedt; Ian Bostridge; Olli Mustonen
Leipziger Streichquartett
Giovanni Sollima; Il Pomo d'Oro; Vanni Moretto
Georg Nigl; Alexander Gergelyfi
Ganassi Consort
Anna Besson; A Nocte Temporis; Louis Creac'h; Manuela Bucher; Ronan Kernoa
