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Bruch - Scottish Fantasia - Michael Rabin : Sir Adrian Boult - 180g LP
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EMI Columbia Testament - 33CX1538 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl
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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 ... -
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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
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)
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.
