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Michael Rabin, Max Bruch, Wieniawski*, Sir Adrian Boult, Philharmonia Orchestra – Scottish Fantasy / Violin Concerto No. 1 In F Sharp Minor
Label: Columbia – 33CX 1538, Testament – 33CX 1538
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Remastered, Mono, 180 gr
Country: UK
Released: 2010
Genre: Classical
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Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46
Composed By – Bruch*
A1 First Movement: Introduction (Adagio Cantabile)
A2:a Second Movemen; Allegro
A2:b Third Movement: Andante Sostenuto
A3 Fourth Movement: Allegro Guerriero Mecolico
Concerto No, 1 In F Sharp Minor
Composed By – Wieniawski*
B1 First Movement: Allegor Moderato
B2:a Second Movement; Preghiera (Larghetto)
B2:b Third Movement: Rondo (Allegro Gioioso)
Credits
Conductor – Sir Adrian Boult
Liner Notes – Sir Neville Marriner (tracks: Neville Mariner)
Orchestra – Philharmonia Orchestra
Violin – Michael Rabin
Notes
This is a 180 gr reissue by TESTAMENT released around 2010 (+/-)
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Side A (runout)): 89683 1A 33CX 1538
Matrix / Runout (Side B (runout)): 89683 33 CX 1538 i,,,i
Matrix / Runout (Side A (on label)): XAX.1128
Matrix / Runout (Side B (on label)): XAX.1129
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Michael Rabin - violin
Adrian Boult dirigiert das Philharmonia Orchestra
Aufnahmejahr: 1958.
Als Wunderkind performte er bereits mit 10 Jahren das hochvirtuose 1. Violinkonzert von Henryk Wieniawski, debütierte mit 13 an der Carnegie Hall und machte mit 14 seine ersten Aufnahmen für Columbia. Michael Rabin galt als eines der größten Talente der Klassikszene bis er 1972 im Alter von nur 35 Jahren verstarb. Bis dahin hatte er in der Zeit zwischen 1950 und 1959 zahlreiche virtuose Meisterwerke aufgenommen.
Max Bruchs "Schottische Fantasie" Op. 46 basiert auf schottischen Volksliedern und zählt neben seinem ersten Violinkonzert zu den regelmäßig aufgeführten Werken des Komponisten. Zwar hatte Bruch Schottland nie besucht, doch unter Verwendung der Volksmusik der Schotten fängt das Werk die ländliche Atmosphäre und das lebensfrohe keltische Lebensgefühl hervorragend ein.
Der Virtuose und Komponist Henryk Wieniawski widmete sein erstes Violinkonzert dem Preussischen König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Das Konzert verlangt vom Solisten einen hohen spielerischen Level, welchen Wunderkind Rabin bereits in jungen Jahren erreicht hatte.
Testament das musikalische Vinyl-Label
Stewart Brown von Testament, UK überrascht mit Vinyl-Reissues der einzigartigen Aufnahmen von Michael Rabins Violinkonzert-Studioeinspielungen die musikalischen und klanglichen Highlights des amerikanischen Ausnahme-Geigenvirtuosen stammen aus den späten Fünfzigerjahren, waren jahrzehntelang nicht mehr erhältlich und sind als Originale extrem gesuchte Sammlerstücke.
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Seite1:
Max Bruch - Scottish Fantasy Op. 46
1. First movement : Introduction (Adagio cantabile)
2 (a) Second Movement : Allegro
(b) Third Movement : Allegro
3. Fourth Movement : Allegro guerriero mecolico.
Seite 2:
Wieniawski - Op. 14 Concerto No. 1 in F Sharp Minor
1. First Movement : Allegro Moderato
2 (a) Second Movement : Preghiera (larghetto)
(b) Third Movement : Rondo (Allegro gloloso)
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Hat man die strahlende Eleganz der Heifetz-Aufnahme im Ohr, hält man kaum für möglich, was man hier hört: Überwältigende Emotionen, Intensität jenseits jeder Beschreibbarkeit. Der 20jährige Michael Rabin versinkt förmlich in Bruchs Partitur, und man versteht, warum diese Karriere nicht lange gut gehen konnte: Wer Musik so sehr lebt, den muß sie auszehren. Eine romantische Erklärung für die schweren psychischen Probleme dieses sagenhaften Violinisten, gewiß, aber hören Sie selbst… Rabins stupende Virtuosität kommt in der ersten Schallplattenaufnahme des Fis-Moll-Konzertes von Henryk Wieniawski zum Tragen. Es ist das Werk, das für den gerade 18jährigen polnischen Komponisten und Geiger (den Zeitgenossen, die beide erlebt hatten, oft mit Paganini verglichen) den Durchbruch auf internationalem Parkett bedeutete; eine geigerische tour de force voller Husarenstücke. Es ist das große Talent Michael Rabins, in solchen Werken die Seele zu finden und zu offenbaren – und was ihm in seiner bis heute unerreichten Einspielung der 24 Capricen Paganinis gelang, gelingt auch hier: Man nimmt die technische Bravour zur Kenntnis, doch sie spielt keine Hauptrolle… – Auch klanglich begeisternde Testament-Reissue! (1958/2011)
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Michael Rabin managed to be one of the most talented and tragic violin virtuosi of his generation. Hailed as a child prodigy, his talent matured gracefully into an adult level, but he failed to follow in his emotional growth, resulting in a cutting short of his career. He never reached the age of 36, yet remains one of the most fondly remembered of virtuoso violinists for listeners and fellow musicians. In the 1950s, Rabin signed with Capitol-EMI, for which he recorded the most important part of his legacy
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EMI Columbia Testament - 33CX1538 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl
AAA 100% Analogue - Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering - Pressed in Germany
Testament has revived these classic titles from the EMI catalog using only the original EMI master tapes,cut onto lacquer at EMI's Abbey Road Studios and mastered using full analog techniques throughout production.
If you have the radiant elegance of Heifetz recording in the ear, one would hardly think possible, which you can hear here: Overwhelming emotions, intensity beyond any descriptiveness. The 20-year-old Michael Rabin is literally breaking into a break, and one understands why this career could not go on for a long time: whoever lives so much music must consume it. A romantic explanation for the serious psychological problems of this legendary violinist, certainly, but listen to yourself ...
Rabin's stupid virtuosity comes to the fore in the first recording of the F sharp minor concerto by Henryk Wieniawski. It is the work which, for the just 18-year-old Polish composer and violinist (the contemporaries who had both experienced, often compared to Paganini), was the breakthrough on the international scene; A geigeric tour de force full of hussars. It is the great talent of Michael Rabin to find and reveal the soul in such works - and what he succeeded in his unparalleled recording of the 24 Caprices of Paganini is also successful here: one takes note of the technical bravura, but it does not play any starring ... -
also sonically inspiring Testament Reissue!
Michael Rabin managed to be one of the most talented and tragic violin virtuosi of his generation. Hailed as a child prodigy, his talent matured gracefully into an adult level, but he failed to follow in his emotional growth, resulting in a cutting short of his career. He never reached the age of 36, yet remains one of the most fondly remembered of virtuoso violinists for listeners and fellow musicians. In the 1950s, Rabin signed with Capitol-EMI, for which he recorded the most important part of his legacy
Violin virtuoso Michael Rabin performs on this rare Columbia recording
Michael Rabin managed to be one of the most talented and tragic violin virtuosi of his generation. Hailed as a child prodigy, his talent matured gracefully into an adult level, but he failed to follow in his emotional growth, resulting in a cutting short of his career. He never reached the age of 36, yet remains one of the most fondly remembered of virtuoso violinists for listeners and fellow musicians.
Sir Adrian Boult founded the BBC Symphony Orchestra which set standards of excellence in the orchestra world. In 1950, he took over the leadership of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and revived its reputation, which had been on the decline after its peak in the 1930s. From the mid-1960s until his retirement after his last sessions in 1978 he recorded extensively for EMI. Boult's legacy includes his influence on prominent conductors to follow including Colin Davis and Vernon Handley.
The Philharmonia Orchestra is one of the leading orchestras in Great Britain.
"Michael Rabin is a very remarkable young violinist, and admirably equipped to give us our first LP recording of Wieniawski's rarely heard first concerto. It's not much of a concerto, considered dispassionately, but it is a stout vehicle for technical display, and that is just what Rabin, discreetly abetted by Boult and the Philharmonia, provides. He rides this aged war-horse with an almost Quixotic conviction that is enjoyable and rather touching." - Gramophone.net, J.N., June 1958 Issue
Michael Rabin, violin
Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult, conductor
Side One:
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Scottish Fantasy Op. 46
1. First Movement: Introduction (Adagio cantabile)
2. Second Movement: Allegro
3. Third Movement: Allegro
4. Fourth Movement: Allegro guerrioro mecolico
Side Two:
Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880)
Violini Concerto Op. 14, No. 1 in F Sharp minor
1. First Movement: Allegro Moderato
2. Second Movement: Preghiera (larghetto)
3. Third Movement: Rondo (Allegro gloloso)
Bruch - Scottish Fantasia - Michael Rabin : Sir Adrian Boult - 180g LP
Testament Records
Testament has revived these classic titles from the EMI catalog using only the original EMI master tapes, cut onto lacquer at EMI's Abbey Road Studios and mastered using full analog techniques throughout production.
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