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Mintz plays Liebesleid, the best composition and best performance on the DG disc, with unusual maturity for a twenty-four-year old. His moving interpretation of melodies on the fiddle tell of precocity with women. This is therefore good music to waltz to. (Make sure the room is candle-lit, and try to get Sugar drunk on Chateau Lafite Rothchild.) Since Liebesleid is the last piece on side one, make sure your record player is rigged to keep on playing after the needle reaches the end. The atmosphere is just right for those final moments of reflection on past romance...
Though Kreisler plays his other pieces faster, with more articulation, and with less shmaltz than Mintz, the latter's Liebesleid--slow and sorrowful--has more appeal. On RCA Victrola's 1968 release of Kreisler "Souvenirs," recorded in the 1920s, the composer plays the piece with slides and portamentos at every place imaginable. Mintz plays important notes with vibrato and spirit without sliding. Directors might consider using the piece for a romantic movie scene. The choice of lovers will be irrelevant; the mood of the scene--an intense, despairing good-bye--will be the same...
...composer, Kreisler suffered a congenital Viennese weakness-a taste for melodious schmalz. But his most popular works-Liebesleid, Liebesfreud, Caprice Viennois, La Gitana, Schön Rosmarin-have grace as well as sentiment. They are so well tailored to the violin that they are almost certain to survive as favorite encore pieces. "His arrangements brought out things for the violin we never dreamed of," says Violinist Nathan Milstein. "The violin was advanced by three persons-Bach, Paganini and Kreisler...
Ricci was recording works by Pablo de Sarasate and a collection of compositions by one of his longtime admirers-Fritz Kreisler. who heard Ricci play as a child. Included were Sarasate's Malagueña and Zapateado, Kreisler's Liebesleid and Liebesfreud and La Gitana. Standing with a kind of Frank Sinatra slouch before the double microphones, tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) Violinist Ricci grasped his Guarnerius del Gesù fiddle in his short, square hands and produced a tone that was remarkable both for its control and its shading. He was at his best in the Sarasate...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Fritz Kreisler, a rare radio performer, playing Mozart's Concerto No. 4 in D Major, his own Liebesleid and Miniature Viennese March...