{"product_id":"kreisler-plays-violin-concertos-vol-2-1935-38-pasc765","title":"KREISLER plays Violin Concertos, Vol. 2 (1935-38) - PASC765","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eViolin Concerto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBRAHMS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eViolin Concerto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eMENDELSSOHN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eViolin Concerto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eMOZART \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eViolin Concerto No. 4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1935-38\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 2hr 14:48\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eFritz Kreisler\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, violin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eLondon Philharmonic Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eConductors:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e John Barbirolli, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eSir Landon Ronald, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eMalcolm Sargent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC765.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:14px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eOur prior volume (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003ePASC 737\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e), issued to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Fritz Kreisler’s birth in 1875, featured one version of every concerto the violinist recorded. In that release, we focused on the earliest versions of each work Kreisler had made. During the mid-1930s, he re-recorded four of the works in London. While his technique in his early 60s was not as seemingly effortless as it had been a decade earlier, he was still acknowledged as one of the greatest violinists in the world; and these new recordings, with their more up-to-date sonics and (in the opinion of some listeners) stronger accompaniments quickly displaced their forebears in the catalog, and were the first to be reissued in the new LP medium decades later.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eFrom February, 1930 through February, 1935, Kreisler made no recordings due to the financial constraints the Great Depression imposed on recording companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Among the first items he undertook in the studio when he returned was a remake of his 1926 recording of the Mendelssohn concerto. For this, as for the rest of his series of concerto remakes for HMV, he had arguably the finest orchestral ensemble in Britain at the time, the London Philharmonic, which had been organized by Beecham in 1932. Leading the orchestra in the Mendelssohn was conductor-composer-pianist Sir Landon Ronald, who had served as musical advisor to HMV since 1900 and more recently had become a director of EMI.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eKreisler’s earlier recording of the Mendelssohn stretched over seven sides, with a piano-accompanied filler. In the ensuing years, a recording of the concerto on six sides featuring Szigeti had appeared, and evidently HMV was keen to have a new version with Kreisler in this more-affordable format. As the timings indicate (12:10\/7:48\/6:52 in 1926 vs. 12:12\/7:01\/6:50 in 1935), this made hardly a difference to the outlying movements, but quite a bit in the second movement, which went from being comfortably spread over two sides to a side and a half. As a result, the tempo seems rushed, particularly in the middle section. Kreisler copes with the challenges well, however, although one notes that the first and last sides had to go to four takes before the violinist was satisfied.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eHis next two concerto recordings were made more or less simultaneously a year later under the direction of cellist-turned-conductor John Barbirolli (who would not become “Sir John” until 1949). Barbirolli had, by this time, made a specialty of accompanying great instrumentalists on HMV recordings (Heifetz, Elman, Piatigorsky, Rubinstein, Backhaus); and as a string player himself, he idolized Kreisler.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eFor his part, Kreisler was very pleased with the support Barbirolli provided him. Asked to select excerpts from his recordings to be played on a special 80th birthday radio program in 1955, Kreisler’s first choice was a movement from the Brahms concerto with Barbirolli, saying “I cannot imagine anybody who is finer as an accompanist, a better cooperator with the soloist, than he was.” (On the other hand, critic Tully Potter felt that in the Beethoven, Barbirolli gave Kreisler too much control over tempo changes, and longed for the “tighter framework” Leo Blech had provided in the older recording.)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eThe two concertos were a struggle for Kreisler: one can hear a momentary slip, quickly recovered from, in the cadenza for the first movement of the Beethoven; and a make-up session had to be scheduled a month after the initial recordings. One casualty of this was the Viotti 22nd concerto, which Kreisler was scheduled to record but which had to be cancelled when time ran out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eKreisler’s last concerto recording in Europe was the Mozart 4th, which the violinist had previously made acoustically under Ronald in 1924. That set had been lavishly spread over eight sides, while the newer version under Malcolm Sargent was able to accommodate the work on six longish ones. 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