Composer: Béla Bartók, Ernest Bloch, Johannes Brahms, Claude Achille Debussy, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Paul Hindemith, Niccolò Paganini, Charles Camille Saint-Saëns, Henryk Wieniawski
Performer: Ivry Gitlis, Daria Hovora
Orchestra: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks, Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim
Conductor: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Hans Rosbaud, Wolfgang Rennert
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: SWR Music
Catalogue: SWR19005CD
Release: 2016
Size: 705 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 7 ‘La Campanella’
01. I. Allegro maestoso
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Rondo: Allegro moderato, “La campanella”
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Adagio
06. III. Un poco presto e con sentimento
07. IV. Presto agitato
Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
08. I. Allegro vivo
09. II. Intermede: Fantastique et leger
10. III. Finale: Tres anime
11. Saint-Saëns: Introduction & Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28
Bloch: Baal Shem (3 Pictures of Chassidic Life)
12. II. Nigun, Improvisation (version for violin and piano)
13. Wieniawski: Polonaise brilliante No. 1 in D major, Op. 4
CD 02
Hindemith: Violin Concerto
01. I. Massig bewegte Halbe
02. II. Langsam
03. III. Lebhaft
Haubenstock-Ramati: Sequences
04. Music for Violin and Orchestra
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz 112
05. I. Allegro non troppo
06. II. Andante tranquillo
07. III. Allegro molto
Ivry Gitlis began gave his first violin concert when he was only seven years old. When he was ten, the great violinist Bronislaw Huberman heard him play, and gave him a scholarship to study in Europe. The child moved to Paris with his mother and studied under such famous violinists as George Enescu, Jacques Thibaud, and Carl Flesch.; His internation career launched in 1951, when the press celebrated him at the Jacque Thibaud competition. He was awarded the “Grand Prix du Disque” for his first recording, Berg’s Violin Concerto.; These recordings are digitally remastered from the original recital recordings, and feature the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, and the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg.