Kathleen Parlow是在Leopold Auer栽培下發光發熱的唯一女弟子,跟眾多師兄弟都是樂壇上的閃耀明星.這套2CD收錄了Kathleen Parlow的所有錄音,包含孟德爾頌小提琴協奏曲,巴哈無伴奏,葛利格小提琴奏鳴曲.以及從未曝光過的珍貴小品錄音.小提琴音樂的一份重量級發行!
"The Canadian-born violinist Kathleen Parlow was one of the most exceptional violinists at the beginning of the 20th century. A brilliant child prodigy, who had performed before King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace at the age of 14, Parlow was a student of the legendary Leopold Auer, who was so enamored of her playing that he referred to her as ‘Mischa Elman in a skirt’. While a still a student, Glazunov, the director of the St Petersburg Conservatory, recommended that she give the Belgian premiere of his Violin Concerto. While still in her teens, Parlow’s performed with such legendary conductors as Thomas Beecham and Bruno Walter, and was the dedicatee of the Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen’s Violin Concerto. Throughout the 1920s, Parlow gave several world tours, travelling as far afield as the Middle East, India, China, Korea and Japan. However, before she turned 30, she had had enough of life as a travelling virtuoso and decided to retire from giving concerts. She returned to Canada, and she made a career teaching until her death in 1963. This 2-CD release features all of the commercial recordings Parlow made for the HMV and American Columbia record labels. Her first records were made at the age of 19 for HMV in which she was guaranteed a special ‘artist royalty’ of 10%, a figure that matched what the company paid the famed coloratura soprano Luisa Tetrazzini. Parlow’s records for the Columbia Record Company in New York were made between 1912-16, and first brought out alongside those of none other than the legendary Eugene Ysaÿe."
曲目:
Paganini: Moto perpetuo, Op. 11, MS 72
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068: Air ('Air on a G String')
Halvorsen: Chant de Veslemoy
Halvorsen: Danse norvégienne No.2 in A
Chopin: Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2
Schubert: Moments Musicaux, D780: No. 3 in F minor
Drigo: Valse Bluette
Kreisler: Liebesfreud
Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
Beethoven: Minuet in A flat major, WoO 209 (Hess 33)
Douglas Moore: The Last Rose of Summer
Dvořák: Humoresque in G flat major, Op. 101 No. 7
Rubinstein: Melody in F major, Op. 3 No. 1
Bach: Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E, BWV1006: Gavotte
Arensky: Serenade for Violin & Piano, Op. 30 No. 2
Drigo: Les Millions d'Arlequin – Serenade
Massenet: Meditation (from Thaïs)
Dvořák: ‘Indian Lament’ from Violin Sonatina in G
Kreisler: Tambourin Chinois, Op. 3
Wieniawski: Fantaisie brillante on themes from Gounod's Faust, Op. 20: Garden Scene
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo
Mendelssohn: Andante from Violin Concerto in E minor
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42: Mélodie in E flat major
Svendsen: Romanze in G Major, Op. 26
Sarasate: Habañera
Beethoven: Minuet in G - 2nd recording
Schubert: Moment Musical No.3 – 2nd recording
Douglas Moore: The Last Rose of Summer – 2nd recording
Drigo: Valse bluette – 2nd recording
Chopin: Nocturne in E-flat, op.9 no.2 – 2nd recording
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (CBC Symphony Orchestra / Geoffrey Waddington)
Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 13
Bach: Violin Sonata No.2 in A minor, BWV 1003 III, Andante
Bach: Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004
Kathleen Parlow (violin)
Charles Adams Prince (piano)
Sir Ernest Macmillan (piano) Grieg