Philip Peters ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>This is the 1929 recording with Leo Blech and the Orchestra of the Berlin
>State Opera, hardly aan amateur orchestra. However, he did it again in
>1936 with Barbirolli and the London Philharmonic. I prefer the first one.
unfortunately, it sounds like one- yes, the first one contains the better
playing of the two
>Even past his prime Szigeti had more to say than most violinists in
>their prime.
agreed- head him in 1947
>A good example is the Bach solo sonatas & partitas. Indeed one would wish
>that he had recorded them earlier but I wouldn't want to be without them.
>The same goes for the beautiful Mozart sonatas with Horszowski (where the
>fragile tone almost becomes an asset) and the Beethoven sonatas with Arrau
>(and yes, there is of course the G Major with Schnabel from the
>thirties...)
agree with all you say-
AB