Word: feuermann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor (Georg Kulenkampff, violin; Enrico Mainardi, cello; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Carl Schuricht conducting; English Decca, 8 sides). This performance of Brahms's fussy but formidable work is not up to the Thibaud-Casals or Heifetz-Feuermann versions. Recording: good...
Mozart: Divertimento for Violin, Viola & Cello, K. 563 (Jascha Heifetz, William Primrose, Emanuel Feuermann; Victor; 8 sides). All-star cast, probably the most brilliant that could have been assembled, with a resulting whole that is nearly but not quite the sum of its parts -Heifetz sometimes neglects teamwork. Performance excellent, recording excellent...
Beethoven: "Archduke" Trio, Op. 97, No. 7 (Artur Rubinstein, pianist, Jascha Heifetz, violinist, Emanuel Feuermann, cellist; Victor; 10 sides). There is no doubt at all about this masterpiece's authorship. This great trio's performance of it was magnificently recorded before Cellist Feuermann's death a year...
...Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Emanuel Feuermann; Victor; 8 sides). One of the most ingratiating of all chamber-music compositions, Schubert's Trio, in a previous recording by Cortot, Thibaud and Casals, was once a sensational bestseller, today is out of print. Victor's new version, with the latest, most scrupulous sound engineering, is one of the finest chamber-music recordings ever made. Rubinstein, Heifetz and Feuermann (each a famed concert soloist) play its lilting melodies with virtuoso finish and a subtle teamwork seldom heard when prima donnas of this caliber get together...
Died. Emanuel Feuermann, 39, world-famed cellist; after an operation; in Manhattan. A child prodigy, he was a professor at the Cologne Conservatory at 16, was ousted by the Nazis as a teacher in Berlin in 1933, went on two world concert tours that won him acclaim as one of the great virtuosos, successor to No. 1 Cellist Pablo Casals...