I’m pretty sure this is a live performance over BBC broadcast around 1950? Teyte was no longer young, yet her voice held strong, replete with all her magnificent nuances. What a marvel she was!
He was a less celebrated Gem of an Artist than a few more widely recognized colleagues- but everything he played sang out with a beauty and sense of truth. This is that from Start to finish. Bach would have loved it.
O del mio amato ben perduto incanto! Lungi è dagli occhi miei chi m'era gloria e vanto! Or per le mute stanze sempre lo [cerco e]1 chiamo con pieno il cor di speranze? Ma cerco invan, chiamo invan! E il pianger m'è sì caro, che di pianto sol nutro il cor. Mi sembra, senza lui2, triste ogni loco. Notte mi sembra il giorno; mi sembra gelo il foco. Se pur talvolta spero di darmi ad altra cura, sol mi tormenta un pensiero: Ma, senza lui, che farò? Mi par così la vita vana cosa senza il mio ben.
It is a superb interpretation and performance, and I hear the influence of his great teacher and mentor Harvey Shapiro to whom Kreger was so devoted and supportive.
A similar comment I added some years ago was deleted. I'm not sure why. If my memory is correct, this video was of a performance at Carnegie Hall after Kreger had done so well at the Tchaikovsky competition to whom and for which Harvey lent his Goffriller cello.
I love this music! It is doubtful that Dvorak heard this with such an agressive cello pizzicato contribution. Nevertheless I feel he would have welcomed such an approach.
Magnificent, magistral interpretation! I feel this is the best version of the Chaconne I have ever heard. The sound comes from the Stradivarius that Francescatti owned, which I read belongs to the last decade of the luthier's production, the "Thunis" instrument from 1728, also played by Paganini. Hearing Francescatti pllay makes it easy to believe that there never was a better violin.
