Fritz Kreisler: Complete RCA Recordings (11 CD box set, APE)

Composer: Bedrich Smetana, Fritz Kreisler, Jules Massenet, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Sebastian Bach, Pearl Dea Detta Townsend, George Frideric Handel, Eduard Gaertner, Franz Joseph Haydn, Antonin Dvorak, Ethelbert Nevin, Fryderyk Chopin, Jacques Offenbach, Luigi Boccherini, Georges Bizet, Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergey Rachmaninov, Edvard Grieg, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Isaac Albeniz, Maurice Ravel, Leopold Godowsky etc.
Audio CD
SPARS Code: ADD
Number of Discs: 11 CD box set
Format: APE (image+cue)
Label: RCA
Size: 2.81 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

# Andantino for violin & piano in F minor (Z domoviny No. 2), JB 1:118/2
Composed by Bedrich Smetana
with George Falkenstein

# Old Folks at Home, for voice & piano
Composed by Stephen Foster
with George Falkenstein

# Caprice Viennois for violin & piano/orchestra, Op.2
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with George Falkenstein

# Humoresque for violin & piano (arr. from Dvorák’s Humoresque, Op. 101/7) No 7 in G flat major
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with George Falkenstein

# Méditation, violin & orchestra version and various arrangements (from opera “Thäis”)
Composed by Jules Massenet
with George Falkenstein

# Tambourin Chinois for violin & piano, Op 3
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with George Falkenstein

# Liebesleid “Love’s Sorrow” for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with George Falkenstein

# Liebesfreud “Love’s Joy” for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with George Falkenstein

# Andantino for violin & piano in F minor (Z domoviny No. 2), JB 1:118/2
Composed by Bedrich Smetana
with George Falkenstein

# Hungarian Dances (21) for orchestra, WoO 1 No 5 in F sharp Minor
Composed by Johannes Brahms
with George Falkenstein

# Variations on A Theme of Corelli for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with George Falkenstein

# Caprice Viennois for violin & piano/orchestra, Op.2
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with George Falkenstein

# Moment musical for piano in F minor (“Air russe”), D. 780/3 (Op. 94/3)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with George Falkenstein

# Tambourin, for harpsichord in E minor (Pièces de clavecin avec une méthode)
Composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau
with George Falkenstein

# Chant sans paroles for violin & piano (transcription of Tchaikovsky’s Op. 2/3) No 03 “Chant Sans Paroles”
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with George Falkenstein

# Chanson Meditation
Composed by R. Cottenet
with George Falkenstein

# Work(s) Gavotte
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with George Falkenstein

# Mélodie (Dance of the Blessed Spirits) for violin & piano (transcriptin of Gluck’s Lento from Orfeo ed Euridice)
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with George Falkenstein

# Schön Rosmarin, for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with George Falkenstein

# Andantino in the Style of Padre Martini, for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with George Falkenstein

# Chanson Louis XIII and Pavane, in the Style of Couperin, for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with George Falkenstein

# Work(s) Preludio
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with George Falkenstein

# Liebesleid “Love’s Sorrow” for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with George Falkenstein

# Berceuse, for violin & piano
Composed by Pearl Dea Detta Townsend
with George Falkenstein

# Chanson Meditation
Composed by R. Cottenet
with George Falkenstein

# Serse (Xerxes), opera, HWV 40 Act 1: Ombra Mai Fu (Largo)
Composed by George Frideric Handel
with Carl Lamson

# Aus Wien for violin & piano
Composed by Eduard Gaertner
with Carl Lamson

# May Breezes, song without words for violin & piano, (transcription of Mendelssohn’s Song without Words, Op. 62/1) May Breezes
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Das Kaiserlied (“Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser”), national anthem, H. 26a/43
Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn
with Vincent O’Brien

# The Angel’s Serenade
Composed by Francisco Ernani Braga
with John McCormack, Vincent O’Brien

# Le Nil
Composed by Xavier Leroux
with John McCormack, Vincent O’Brien

# Jocelyn, opera Act 2, Berceuse (Lullaby)
Composed by Benjamin Godard
with John McCormack, Vincent O’Brien

# Ellens Gesang III (“Ave Maria”), song for voice & piano, D. 839 (Op. 52/6)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with John McCormack, Vincent O’Brien

# Humoresque for violin & piano (arr. from Dvorák’s Humoresque, Op. 101/7) No 7 in G flat major
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Fritz Kreisler

# Ständchen (“Zögernd, leise”), for alto, chorus & piano (“Notturno”), D. 920 (Op. posth. 135)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with John McCormack, Vincent O’Brien

# Ave Maria, for voice & orchestra (adapted from Intermezzo of “Cavalleria Rusticana”)
Composed by Pietro Mascagni
with John McCormack, Vincent O’Brien

# Ave Maria, for voice & piano (or other vocal arrangements; after Bach’s Prelude No. 1 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
Composed by Charles Gounod
with John McCormack, Vincent O’Brien

# Indian Lament for violin & piano (arr. from Dvorák’s Sonatina for violin & piano, Op. 100)
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Vincent O’Brien

# Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in D minor (“Double”), BWV 1043
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with Efrem Jr. Zimbalist

# Aus Wien for violin & piano
Composed by Eduard Gaertner
with Carl Lamson

# May Breezes, song without words for violin & piano, (transcription of Mendelssohn’s Song without Words, Op. 62/1) May Breezes
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Das Kaiserlied (“Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser”), national anthem, H. 26a/43
Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn
with Carl Lamson

# Slavonic Dance No. 1 for violin & piano in G minor (transcription of Dvorák’s Slavonic Dance No. 2, Op. 46/2) Slavonic Dance
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Slavonic Dances (8) for orchestra, B. 147 (Op. 72) No 10 in E Minor
Composed by Antonin Dvorak
with Carl Lamson

# The Rosary, for voice & piano
Composed by Ethelbert Nevin
with Carl Lamson

# Sérénade espagnole for piano, Op. 150
Composed by Cecile Chaminade
with Carl Lamson

# Tambourin, Chinois, Op 3
Composed by Cecile Chaminade
with Carl Lamson

# Mazurka for piano No. 43 in G minor, Op. 67/2, CT. 93
Composed by Fryderyk Chopin
with Carl Lamson

# Mighty Lak’ a Rose, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Composed by Ethelbert Nevin
Performed by Alessandro Orchestra Scarlatti
with Geraldine Farrar
Conducted by Walter B. Rogers

# La Serenata for voice & piano/orchestra
Composed by Paolo Tosti
with Geraldine Farrar, Francis J. Lapitino

# Mignon, opera in 3 acts Act 1, “Connais-Tu Le Pays?”
Composed by Ambroise Thomas
Performed by Alessandro Orchestra Scarlatti
with Geraldine Farrar
Conducted by Walter B. Rogers

# Serenade, for piano, Op 15
Composed by Moritz Moszkowski
Performed by Alessandro Orchestra Scarlatti
with John McCormack
Conducted by Walter B. Rogers

# Carme (Canto Sorentino)
Composed by Ernesto de Curtis
Performed by Alessandro Orchestra Scarlatti
with John McCormack
Conducted by Walter B. Rogers

# Flirtation
Composed by Erik Meyer-Helmund
with Carl Lamson

# Still Wie die Nacht, Op.326/27
Composed by Georg Bohm
with John McCormack, Ludwig Schwat

# Chant sans paroles for violin & piano (transcription of Tchaikovsky’s Op. 2/3) No 03 “Chant Sans Paroles”
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Work(s) Gavotte
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with Carl Lamson

# Impressions (12) for violin & piano No 11, Wienerisch
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
with Carl Lamson

# The Old Refrain, for violin & piano (transcription of Johann Brandl’s “Du alter Stefansturm” from Der liebe Augustin)
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Andaluza (Playera), various guitar & other non-piano arrangements (No.5 of “Spanish Dances (12)”)
Composed by Enrique Granados
with Carl Lamson

# Berceuse Romantique for violin & piano, Op.9
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Songs My Mother Taught Me for violin & piano (transcription of Dvorak’s Gypsy Songs, Op. 55/4) No 04, Songs My Mother Taught Me
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Méditation, violin & orchestra version and various arrangements (from opera “Thäis”)
Composed by Jules Massenet
with Carl Lamson

# Liebesfreud “Love’s Joy” for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Aubade Provençale in the Style of Louis Couperin, for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Old Folks at Home, for voice & piano
Composed by Stephen Foster
with Carl Lamson

# Hungarian Dances (21) for orchestra, WoO 1 No 5 in F sharp Minor
Composed by Johannes Brahms
with Carl Lamson

# Andantino for violin & piano in F minor (Z domoviny No. 2), JB 1:118/2
Composed by Bedrich Smetana
with Carl Lamson

# Serenade
Composed by Joseph Joachim Raff
with Carl Lamson

# Les contes d’Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts Act 4: Belle Nuit, O Nuit D’Amour (Barcarolle)
Composed by Jacques Offenbach
with John McCormack, Edwin Schneider

# Missa a 8 con violines 2nd Mvt, Andante Cantabile
Composed by Manuel de Zumaya
with Carl Lamson

# Minuet in A major, arrangements (after String Quintet in E major, Op.11/5 [aka Op. 13/5], G. 275)
Composed by Luigi Boccherini
with Carl Lamson

# Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler

# Adagietto for violin & string quartet (arranged from L’arlésienne Suite No. 1/3 by Fritz Kreisler)
Composed by Georges Bizet
with Bell’ Arte Trio

# Poor Butterfly for violin & orchestra
Composed by Raymond Hubbell
with Carl Lamson

# Rosamunde, Fürstin von Cypern, incidental music, D. 797 (Op. 26) Ballet Music No 2
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Carl Lamson

# Dream of Youth for violin & orchestra
Composed by Felix Winternitz
with Carl Lamson

# Humoresques de concert (6), for piano, Op 14 No 1, in G major, Menuet Célèbre
Composed by Ignace Jan Paderewski
with Carl Lamson

# Polichinelle for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
Performed by Alessandro Orchestra Scarlatti
Conducted by Josef A. Pasternack

# Moment musical for piano in F minor (“Air russe”), D. 780/3 (Op. 94/3)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Carl Lamson

# Tambourin, for harpsichord in E minor (Pièces de clavecin avec une méthode)
Composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau
with Maurice Eisner

# Beautiful Ohio
Composed by Mary Earl
with Carl Lamson

# Im Paradies for violin & orchestra
Composed by Alexander Krakauer
with Carl Lamson

# La Gitana for violin & piano (after an 18th century Arabo-Spanish Gypsy song)
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Gypsy Serenade for violin & piano
Composed by Emilio Valdez
with Carl Lamson

# Sadko, opera in 3 (or 5) acts Scene 4, “Song of the Indian Guest”
Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
with Carl Lamson

# Forsaken
Composed by Thomas Koschat
with Carl Lamson

# Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
Composed by Clarence Cameron White
with Carl Lamson

# Humoresque for violin & piano (arr. from Dvorák’s Humoresque, Op. 101/7) No 7 in G flat major
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
Performed by Alessandro Orchestra Scarlatti
Conducted by Josef A. Pasternack

# In the silence of the secret night, song for voice & piano, Op. 4/3
Composed by Sergey Rachmaninov
with Carl Lamson

# Georgian Song (“Do not Sing, My Beauty”), for voice & piano, Op. 4/4
Composed by Sergey Rachmaninov
with Carl Lamson

# The Last Hour, Op 34/6
Composed by J. Walter Kramer
with Carl Lamson

# Since You Went Away
Composed by J. Rosamond Johnson
with John McCormack, Edwin Schneider

# Apple Blossoms, operetta Who Can Tell?
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# The Love Nest (from “Mary”)
Composed by Louis A. Hirsch
with Carl Lamson

# On Miami Shore
Composed by Viktor Jacobi
Performed by Alessandro Orchestra Scarlatti
Conducted by Josef A. Pasternack

# An den Frühling (To Spring), lyric piece for piano, Op. 43/6
Composed by Edvard Grieg
with Carl Lamson

# Waltzes (16) for piano, 4 hands (or piano), Op. 39 No 15
Composed by Johannes Brahms
with Carl Lamson

# Melody for violin & piano
Composed by Charles G. Dawes
with Carl Lamson

# March of the Toy Soldiers
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Aucassin et Nicolette for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Souvenir for saxophone & piano
Composed by Frantisek Drdla
with Carl Lamson

# Le Coq d’Or (The Golden Cockerel; Zolotoy petushok), opera in 3 acts with a prologue & epilogue Act 2, “Hymn to the Sun”
Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
with Carl Lamson

# Chanson Arabe, transcription for violin & piano (after Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade)
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Lotus Land for piano, Op. 47/1 (W183)
Composed by Cyril Scott
with Carl Lamson

# Pale Moon for violin & piano
Composed by Frederick K. Logan
with Carl Lamson

# Danse Orientale, transcription for violin & piano (from Rimsky-Korasakov: Sheherazade) Danse Orientale
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Cherry Ripe, for piano (W60)
Composed by Cyril Scott
with Carl Lamson

# Entr’acte, Op 46/2
Composed by A. Walter Kramer
with Carl Lamson

# Mazurka for piano No. 23 in D major, Op. 33/2, CT. 73
Composed by Fryderyk Chopin
with Carl Lamson

# Miscellanea for piano, Op 16/s 1-7, complete No 2, Mélodie in G flat major
Composed by Ignace Jan Paderewski
with Carl Lamson

# Midnight Bells Midnight Bells
Composed by Richard Heuberger
with Carl Lamson

# Love Sends A Little Gift of Flowers (Roses)
Composed by John Openshaw
with Carl Lamson

# The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
Composed by Ernst Seitz
with Carl Lamson

# Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 Canzonetta
Composed by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
with Carl Lamson

# Slavonic Lament
Composed by Eduard Schutt
with Carl Lamson

# Work(s) Menuet (unspecified)
Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn
with Carl Lamson

# Old French Gavotte
Composed by Carl Friedberg
with Carl Lamson

# The Dancing Doll, for piano (“Poupée Valsante”)
Composed by Ede Poldini
with Carl Lamson

# Molly on the Shore, folk song for violin & piano
Composed by Percy Grainger
with Carl Lamson

# Pierrot’s Dance Song
Composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
with Carl Lamson

# Méditation, violin & orchestra version and various arrangements (from opera “Thäis”)
Composed by Jules Massenet
with Carl Lamson

# Slavonic Dances (8) for orchestra, B. 147 (Op. 72) No 10 in E minor
Composed by Antonin Dvorak
with Carl Lamson

# Dirge of the North
Composed by Erno Balogh
with Carl Lamson

# The Old Refrain, for violin & piano (transcription of Johann Brandl’s “Du alter Stefansturm” from Der liebe Augustin)
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Humoresques de concert (6), for piano, Op 14 No 1, in G major, Menuet Célèbre
Composed by Ignace Jan Paderewski
Performed by Alessandro Orchestra Scarlatti
Conducted by Rosario Bourdon

# Melody for violin & piano
Composed by Charles G. Dawes
with Carl Lamson

# A Kiss in the Dark, song for voice & orchestra (from “Orange Blossoms”)
Composed by Victor Herbert
with Carl Lamson

# Serse (Xerxes), opera, HWV 40 Act 1: Ombra Mai Fu (Largo)
Composed by George Frideric Handel
with Carl Lamson

# Caprice Viennois for violin & piano/orchestra, Op.2
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Chansonette
Composed by George Bass
with Carl Lamson

# Chant sans paroles for violin & piano (transcription of Tchaikovsky’s Op. 2/3) No 03 “Chant Sans Paroles”
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Symphonie espagnole, for violin and orchestra in D minor, Op. 21 Scherzando
Composed by Edouard Lalo
with Carl Lamson

# Caprice Antique
Composed by Erno Balogh
with Carl Lamson

# Legend of the Canyon, romance for violin & piano, Op. 68
Composed by Charles Wakefield Cadman
with Carl Lamson

# Two Russian Folk Songs
Composed by Traditional
with Carl Lamson

# Aloha Oe (Farewell To Thee)
Composed by H.R.H. Queen Lili’uokalani
with Carl Lamson

# Idealized Indian Themes for piano From The Land Of The Sky-Blue Water
Composed by Charles Wakefield Cadman
with Carl Lamson

# Goin’ Home, song for voice & piano or orchestra (theme from 2nd mov’t, Sym. No. 9 arr. by Wm. A. Fisher)
Composed by Antonin Dvorak
with Carl Lamson

# Work(s) Menuet
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with Carl Lamson
# Gavotte (No 22, la reitrovata figlia di Ottone II)
Composed by Leopold Antonin Kozeluch
with Carl Lamson

# The Student Prince, operetta “Deep in My Heart, Dear”
Composed by Sigmund Romberg
with Carl Lamson
# Rose Marie, operetta Act 1: “When I’m Calling You-o (Indian Love Call)
Composed by Rudolf Friml
with Carl Lamson

# Andantino for organ in D flat (“Moonlight and Roses”), Op. 83/2
Composed by Edwin Henry Lemare
with Carl Lamson

# At Dawning for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 29
Composed by Charles Wakefield Cadman
with Carl Lamson

# Fritz Kreisler-Serenade, for orchestra, NV 85
Composed by Franz Lehar
with Carl Lamson

# Invocation
Composed by Elwyn Owen
with Carl Lamson

# Eastern Song: The nightingale enslaved by the rose (Vostochnïy romans), song for voice and piano, Op. 2/2
Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
with Carl Lamson

# Morceaux (2) for piano (or piano & violin), Op. 10 No 02 “Humoresque” in E Minor
Composed by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
with Carl Lamson

# Work(s) Albumblatt
Composed by Sergey Rachmaninov
with Carl Lamson

# Sérénade Romantique, for orchestra, NV 214
Composed by Franz Lehar
with Carl Lamson

# Caprice Viennois for violin & piano/orchestra, Op.2
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Liebesfreud “Love’s Joy” for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Liebesleid “Love’s Sorrow” for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Blue Skies, song (originally interpolated into the R.Rodgers musical “Betsy”)
Composed by Irving Berlin
with Carl Lamson

# Dance of the Maidens, Op 48
Composed by Rudolf Friml
with Carl Lamson

# Shepherd’s Madrigal, for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Gypsy Caprice (Zigeuner Capriccio) for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Schön Rosmarin, for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from “Popular Spanish Songs” by Kochanski) Cancion
Composed by Manuel de Falla
with Carl Lamson

# España, album leaves (6) for piano, Op. 165, B. 37 No 03, Malagueña
Composed by Isaac Albeniz
with Carl Lamson

# Humoresque for violin & piano (arr. from Dvorák’s Humoresque, Op. 101/7) No 7 in G flat major
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Petite suite (4), for piano, 4 hands (or orchestra), L. 65 No 1, En Bateau
Composed by Claude Debussy
with Carl Lamson

# Ruralia Hungarica, pieces (3) for violin & piano, Op. 32c
Composed by Ernst von Dohnanyi
with Carl Lamson

# La fille aux cheveux de lin, prelude for piano, L. 117/8
Composed by Claude Debussy
with Carl Lamson

# Souvenir for saxophone & piano
Composed by Frantisek Drdla
with Carl Lamson

# Méditation, violin & orchestra version and various arrangements (from opera “Thäis”)
Composed by Jules Massenet
with Carl Lamson

# Mighty Lak’ a Rose, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Composed by Ethelbert Nevin
with Carl Lamson

# The Rosary, for voice & piano
Composed by Ethelbert Nevin
with Carl Lamson

# Old Folks at Home, for voice & piano
Composed by Stephen Foster
with Carl Lamson

# Danse Espagnole for violin & piano (transcription from Falla’s La Vida Breve)
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# España, album leaves (6) for piano, Op. 165, B. 37 No 02, Tango
Composed by Isaac Albeniz
with Carl Lamson

# Tambourin Chinois for violin & piano, Op 3
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Dance of the Marionette
Composed by Felix Winternitz
with Carl Lamson

# Vocalise-Étude en forme de Habanera, for voice & piano
Composed by Maurice Ravel
with Carl Lamson

# Night Tangier
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
with Carl Lamson

# Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Sonata for violin & piano No. 8 in G major, Op. 30/3
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
with Carl Lamson

# Sonata for violin & piano No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45
Composed by Edvard Grieg
with Carl Lamson

# Sonata for violin & piano in A major (“Duo”), D. 574 (Op. posth. 162)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Sergey Rachmaninov

# Slavonic Dance No. 2 for violin & piano in E minor (transcription of Dvorák’s Slavonic Dance No. 10, Op. 72/2) Slavonic Dance
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Slavonic Dance No. 3 for violin & piano in G major (transcription of Dvorák’s Slavonic Dance No. 16, Op. 72/8) No 16 in A flat major
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Midnight Bells Midnight Bells
Composed by Richard Heuberger
with Carl Lamson

# Indian Lament for violin & piano (arr. from Dvorák’s Sonatina for violin & piano, Op. 100)
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Songs My Mother Taught Me for violin & piano (transcription of Dvorak’s Gypsy Songs, Op. 55/4) No 04, Songs My Mother Taught Me
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Vocalise-Étude en forme de Habanera, for voice & piano
Composed by Maurice Ravel
with Carl Lamson

# Londonderry Air (Danny Boy), folk song
Composed by Irish Traditional
with Carl Lamson

# Chanson Louis XIII and Pavane, in the Style of Couperin, for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Schön Rosmarin, for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# The Old Refrain, for violin & piano (transcription of Johann Brandl’s “Du alter Stefansturm” from Der liebe Augustin)
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from “Popular Spanish Songs” by Kochanski) No 7 , Polo
Composed by Manuel de Falla
with Carl Lamson

# Mélodie (Dance of the Blessed Spirits) for violin & piano (transcriptin of Gluck’s Lento from Orfeo ed Euridice)
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Polichinelle for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# La Précieuse in the Style of Louis Couperin for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Rosamunde, Fürstin von Cypern, incidental music, D. 797 (Op. 26) Ballet Music No 2
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Carl Lamson

# Caprice Viennois for violin & piano/orchestra, Op.2
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
Performed by Victor Orchestra
Conducted by Charles O’Connell

# Tambourin Chinois for violin & piano, Op 3
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
Performed by Victor Orchestra
Conducted by Charles O’Connell

# Liebesleid “Love’s Sorrow” for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
Performed by Victor Orchestra
Conducted by Charles O’Connell

# Liebesleid “Love’s Sorrow” for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
Performed by Victor Orchestra
Conducted by Charles O’Connell

# La Gitana for violin & piano (after an 18th century Arabo-Spanish Gypsy song)
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
Performed by Victor Orchestra
Conducted by Charles O’Connell

# Schön Rosmarin, for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
Performed by Victor Orchestra
Conducted by Charles O’Connell

# Violin Concerto in C major in the style of Vivaldi
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
Performed by Victor String Orchestra
Conducted by Donald Voorhees

# Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# The Old Refrain, for violin & piano (transcription of Johann Brandl’s “Du alter Stefansturm” from Der liebe Augustin)
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Londonderry Air (Danny Boy), folk song
Composed by Irish Traditional
with Carl Lamson

# Midnight Bells Midnight Bells
Composed by Richard Heuberger
with Carl Lamson

# Marche Miniature Viennoise for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Work(s) Hungarian Rondo
Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn
with Carl Lamson

# Chanson Louis XIII and Pavane, in the Style of Couperin, for violin & piano
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
Performed by Victor Orchestra
Conducted by Donald Voorhees

# The Rosary, for voice & piano
Composed by Ethelbert Nevin
with Carl Lamson

# The King Steps Out, film score Stars in My Eyes
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Carl Lamson

# Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta for violin & orchestra
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
Performed by RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Donald Voorhees

Kind of Amazing

First thing I be wondering is where RCA (BMG–now probably Wal-Mart) got the idea that a $120 set of Kreisler faves–most short 78-era items–would be marketable? I’d love to check the Homeland Security records and see just who bought this set. I would never have sprung for it but now that I was given one I have to comment on it. Amazing!

First, there’s the playing. This is a professionally ebullient fiddler. Technically astounding, but with the communicative warmth the other reviewers seem to uniformly note. I find violin tiring to the ear sometimes, but not this guy’s violin. A joy to listen to.

Second, the selection. Fairly much 11 discs of solid “pop” music–a kind of Fiedlerian dream world where every piece catches the attention usually because of potent melodic pungency. I found myself looking forward to each cut, knowing I would be well-rewarded. Kreisler chose his repertoire well.

Third, oh yeah sure, nostalgia. Everything here is an echo of a world that passed largely by 1914 and was already deep nostalgia for many by the time these last recordings were made in the 1940s. I’m not sure there’s anything wrong with that, it’s a kind of longing not for an idealized past but for aspects of that past that are clearly missing in the world today (or even back in 1948 when the last tracks were set down). Heck, I listen to Beethoven and find myself getting nostalgic for an era when my local department store music department would make a big deal out of a new Bernstein release and a major network would actually give Lennie time to talk about classical music to the masses.

Anyway, I never intended to own the collection, now I do and I’d replace it in the blink of an eye. Charming and entertaining from disc one to disc eleven.