Composer: Arthur Hartmann
Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0089
Release: 2009
Size: 337 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Miniatures for Violin and Piano
01. L’Amour: Valse bluette
02. A Negro Croon
03. Autumn in Hungary: Romance
04. Nyiregyh·zi EmlÈk: Csardas
05. Szomor˙s·g (Tristesse): Rhapsodische Skizze
06. Caprice
07. Valse
08. Danse Grotesque
09. Kossuth Lajos
10. Bogdan…
11. Esprit de Ravioli Polah… (Souvenir d’une SoirÈe inoubliable)
12. Prayer
13. La Tzigane
14. La Coquette: Valse Intermezzo
15. Tauga: A Bulgarian Sketch
16. A Cradle Song
Transcriptions of Claude Debussy (c. 1908t10)
17. Beau Soir
18. La fille aux cheveux de lin
19. Il pleure dans mon coeur
20. Transcription of Edward MacDowell (pub. 1907): To a Wild Rose
Arthur Hartmann (1881-1956) was a Philadelphia-born violinist and composer — though he claimed he came from Hungary — whose Kreisler-like salon miniatures for violin and piano were once the toast of violinists everywhere. He was also a close friend of Debussy, a number of whose piano pieces he transcribed, performing them in Paris with the composer. This first recording of Hartmann’s charming pieces restores a forgotten but immediately attractive corner of the violin repertoire.