Release Date: 02 March 2018
Label: Documents
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 10
Barcode: 4053796004512
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: Milestones Of A Legend
Release Date: 02 March 2018
Label: Documents
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 10
Barcode: 4053796004512
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: Milestones Of A Legend
Description
Henryk Szeryng (1918-1988) spoke eight languages. As an "ambassador of goodwill," he traveled to his concerts around the world with a diplomatic passport issued to him by the Mexican state after Szeryng became a naturalized citizen in 1946. He was impressed by Mexico's willingness to help many of his Polish compatriots fleeing the German occupiers. From his violin collection, worth many millions, he later gave away a Stradivarius and a Guarneri to Mexico and to Israel. During World War II Szeryng was a liaison officer and interpreter of the exiled Polish prime minister Sikorski, who had found asylum in France. His career as a violin virtuoso began with studies with Flesch in Berlin and Boulanger in Paris and a performance of Beethoven's Concerto op. 61 under Bruno Walter in Warsaw. It took him to all the music capitals of the world and ended abruptly with his unexpected death in Kassel in 1988. His wide-ranging repertoire, which included many works dedicated to him by contemporary composers, is documented in this 10-CD box with exemplary interpretations.
Tracklisting
Wilhelm Kempff
Jim Hall
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk And More
Kirill Kondrashin
Herbie Hancock
William Steinberg
Maria Callas
Marianne Beate Kielland, Nils Anders Mortensen
Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria, Coro Lirico Siciliano, Filippo Arlia, Francesco Costa
Michele Campanella & Monica Leone
Erich Leinsdorf; Wiener Philharmoniker; Cesare Siepi; Fernando Corena; Leontyne Price; Birgit Nilss
Ensemble Castor
Alessandro Deljavan
Martin Iddon, Quiet Music Ensemble, Jack Adler-McKean
Eva Maria Doroszkowska