AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

EMI Testament - ASD 3785  - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl

AAA 100% Analogue -  Mastered at Abbey Road

ASD 3785 HMV His Masters Voice - Pressed at Optimal  Germany

Ida Haendel plays Favourite Violin Encores

Paganini, Schubert, Ravel, Dvorak, Copland,
Tartini, Sarasate, Mendelssohn , Weber, Hallfter, Bartók
with Geoffrey Parsons

It would be difficult to find another recording of Paganini's famous "Glöckchenrondo", which comes with such creative delicacy. You can play the more virtuoso, more impressive, so to speak, but not more musical; And Ida Haendel's recording shows once again how under-estimated the great Genoese is still today as a composer! As a result, there are a lot of trainings of comparable popularity, and in almost everyone the listener will discover a beauty of unexpected depth. At Schubert's "Ave Maria" one is literally seized; Completely forgotten are the countless kitsch versions of this innocent piece after the first notes.

 We experience a similar phenomenon in Dvorak's "Songs My Mother Taught Me" or Mendelssohn's "On the Wings of Songs". Ravel's "Habañera" comes with fire, but equally charming and a rare lightness; Copland's "Hoe-Down" has raw temperament, but also the natural beauty of a wild horse. Fire, but also an inimitable grace, is also characteristic of the excursions to Spain (Ernesto Halffter's "Danza de la Gitana", edited by Jascha Heifetz) and Romania (Bartók's "Romanian Folk Dances"). 

 Which, by the way, is now a ten-to-twenty-fold price for original printing ... (1980/2017) © Janis Obodda But also the natural beauty of a wild horse. Fire, but also an inimitable grace, is also characteristic of the excursions to Spain (Ernesto Halffter's "Danza de la Gitana", edited by Jascha Heifetz) and Romania (Bartók's "Romanian Folk Dances"). Which, by the way, is now a ten-to-twenty-fold price for original printing ... (1980/2017) © Janis Obodda But also the natural beauty of a wild horse. Fire, but also an inimitable grace, is also characteristic of trips to Spain (Ernesto Halffter's "Danza de la Gitana", edited by Jascha Heifetz) and Romania (Bartók's "Romanian Folk Dances"). Which, by the way, is now a ten-to-twenty-fold price for original printing ...

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.

Tracklist

Side One:
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
1. La Clochette, Op. 7
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
2. Ave Maria
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
3. Habanera, Op. 21 No. 2
4. Piece en forme de Habanera
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
5. Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55 No. 4
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
6. Hoe-Down (from "Rodeo")
Side Two:
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
1. Andante - Presto
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
2. Zapateado, Op. 23 No. 2
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
3. On Wings of Song
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
4. Air Russe and Rondo
Ernesto Halffter (1905-1989)
5. Danza de la Gitana
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
6. Rumanian Folk Dances

Piano – Geoffrey Parsons
Violin – Ida Haendel

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.