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