Pre-'50s Classical and Jazz recordings. I played violin for many years until a bicycle accident made it impossible. I have collected hundreds of hours of music and I enjoy sharing the best performances not already on RU-vid (for the most part). Enjoy and thanks for listening.
Very personal beautiful and intimate playing of a type that doesn't exist any longer. I totally disagree with Flesch in his assessment of Zimbalist's playing. In our days of high tension playing, it is wonderful to hear such a relaxed performance.
...been listening to the Sirius XM 40s channel, 40s Junction and heard this for the first time a few weeks ago...born in 1949 - grew up in the 50s watching TV with mom & dad and hearing/seeing the 40s era stars on the variety shows they loved to watch...
@chaspoll1 I completely agree (his recording of the Ravel Trio is IMHO the most beautiful overall), and I've been thinking about this. I think one thing is that Ginette Neveu came along, who made all others seem like well-meaning amators. I've also seen Merckel was not liked as a concertmaster by his players (he must have been demanding, but hey!), not sure whether true or just a rumor.
Research this this fellow! Career included +Violinist at Metropolitan Opera. + Recording pioneer for Edison, Victor, Columbia & others Soloist and orchestra conductor of Victor studio sessions. + Vaudeville and popular as well as classical gigs. +Long tour with Harry Lauder in early 30s. + Non music career as a Chiropractor.
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Just beautiful! I'm so glad my parents shared songs like this with me so I appreciate them. Thank you for the post. Such a teaching song. Appreciate life while you have it and appreciate how priceless and fleeting it really is.
@2nd violinist: You say "As much as I like him, he wasn't really on the level of the better classical violinists of his time" I discovered South and Grappelli in my teens in the fifties. They find the swing in Bach which most others and betters are sadly lacking, in this important respect not being on South/Grapellis level.
Very sad piece, almost as if it was reflecting the sad faith of Jews in Germany and his daughter Alma who was also a violinist and had her own orchestra in Vienna. After she was arrested by the Gestapo she was made a leader of orchestra in Birkenau playing next to the crematorium. Let their souls rest in peace.
Last photograph is of "The Pianist" - Wladyslaw Szpilman. The person sitting next to him seems to be Artur Balsam, but I can't be sure. Thanks for posting, and thanks to Bryan Bishop. The transfer is indeed excellent!
Fascinating, but as always with pinscreen one is left wondering if the extraordinarily laborious technique was justified by the result. In animation history it was a dead end compared with stop-motion and claymation. A feature would have taken decades to finish. The breakthrough of 'Snow White' doomed it. Incidentally, was this influenced by Claire Parker's enthusiasm for the cowboy star Tom Mix and 'his beautiful white horse'?
Louis Persinger was my great-uncle, I’ve known about him but hadn’t heard him play (I am also a musician, so this just delightful). Thanks for posting!
