Performer: Fritz Kreisler, Carl Lamson, Michael Raucheisen
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8111409
Release: 2019
Size: 176 ЬИ
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Lemare: Andantino in D-Flat Major, Op. 83, No. 2, “Moonlight and Roses” (arr. G. Saenger for violin and piano)
02. Cadman: At Dawning, Op. 29, No. 1, “I love you” (arr. K. Rissland for violin and piano)
03. Lehár: Serenade in A Major, “Kreisler Serenade”
04. Owen: Invocation (arr. F. Kreisler for violin and piano)
Rimsky-Korsakov: 4 Songs, Op. 2
05. Oriental Romance “The Nightingale and the Rose”, Op. 2 No. 2 (Arr. J. Gordon for Violin & Piano)
Tchaikovsky: Morceaux, Op. 10 TH 132
06. No. 2, Humoresque (Arr. F. Kreisler for Violin & Piano)
Rachmaninov: 6 Songs, Op. 38
07. No. 3. Margaritki (Daisies) (arr. F. Kreisler for violin and piano)*
Lehár: Frasquita
08. Hab’ ein blaues Himmelbett “Serenade” (Arr. F. Kreisler for Violin & Piano)
09. Kreisler: Caprice Viennois, Op. 2
Kreisler: Drei Walzer (Liebesfreud – Liebesleid – Schön Rosmarin)
10. No. 1, Liebesfreud
11. No. 2, Liebesleid (Take 6)
12. No. 2, Liebesleid (Take 7)
Falla: La vida breve
13. Danse espagnole No. 1 (Recorded December 8, 1926) [Arr. F. Kreisler for Violin & Piano]
Brahms: Hungarian Dances
14. No. 17 in F-Sharp Minor (Arr. F. Kreisler for Violin & Piano)
Debussy: Préludes – Book 1
15. No. 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin (Arr. A. Hartmann for Violin & Piano)
Scott: 2 Pieces, Op. 47
16. No. 1. Lotus Land (arr. F. Kreisler for violin and piano)
Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 5, Op. 62
17. No. 1, MWV U185 “May Breezes” (Arr. F. Kreisler for Violin & Piano)
Debussy: Petite Suite
18. I. En bateau (Arr. G. Choisnel for Violin & Piano)
Falla: La vida breve
19. Danse espagnole No. 1 (Recorded December 15, 1926) [Arr. F. Kreisler for Violin & Piano]
Bach: Sonata for solo violin No. 1 in G minor, BWV1001
20. I. Adagio
21. Berlin: Betsy: Blue Skies (arr. F. Kreisler for violin and piano)
22. Friml: Dance of the Maidens, Op. 48 (arr. F. Kreisler for violin and piano)
Kreisler: Altdeutsches Schäfer-Madrigal (Old German Shepherd’s Madrigal)
23. Altdeutsches Schäfer-Madrigal (Take 6)
24. Altdeutsches Schäfer-Madrigal (Take 8)
We are indeed fortunate that Fritz Kreisler was still at the peak of his powers when electrical recording arrived in 1925. He was as busy as ever in the year covered by these recordings, using Vuillaume and Guarneri del Gesù violins that he said ‘breathe and pulsate with a million vibrations’. On one of his many successful charity concerts in 1927 The Times commented that Kreisler’s ‘fine-drawn phrases have the delicacy of a spider’s thread, the suppleness of elastic, and the strength of steel’. With wonderful examples of parlando bowing, many demonstrations of beautiful double-stopping, lovely staccato and myriad other subtleties such as delicate rhythmic changes, harmonics and variations in dynamics, these New York and Berlin sessions include classic versions of Kreisler’s best works and a rare unaccompanied movement by Bach.