Word: szeryng
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SCHUBERT: TRIOS, OP. 99 AND 100 (RCA, 2 LPs). Violinist Henryk Szeryng, Cellist Pierre Fournier and Pianist Artur Rubinstein put away their virtuoso ways to collaborate touchingly on two chamber music gems...
Schubert: Trios, Op. 99 in B-Flat and 100 in E-Flat (Henryk Szeryng, violin; Pierre Fournier, cello; Artur Rubinstein, piano; RCA; 2 LPs; $16.98). Corraling a collection of virtuosos to record chamber music is not always a good idea. Having spent years alone in the spotlight, too many of them lack the knack of bobbing and weaving in rhythm with other minds and hearts. Szeryng, Fournier and Rubinstein rank high among the successful exceptions to this individualistic rule. In these trios, each player retains his own particular musical fist yet manages to fit it into his neighbor...
...Milan under the care of the violinist's heirs. Other violinists have been trying to get at them ever since. By last year, all the concertos except the third had been released. It was still held by the Paganini family. Last Christmas, Philips Records, aided by Violinist Henryk Szeryng, finally obtained it after ten years of delicate negotiations...
...Philips release, Szeryng and the London Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Gibson give the first performance of the third concerto since the last documented performance by Paganini 138 years ago. Jovial, pretty and full of technical traps, the Rossini-influenced work sends the solo violin scampering like the hero of some demonic opera bouffe...
...Szeryng brings it all off with dash and finesse, but without quite removing the suspicion that there must have seemed more to it when Paganini played it. "The work," he says, "makes me feel like I'm jetting from heaven to hell at incredible speed." It must be reported, however, that when he performed it in public recently at London's Royal Festival Hall, the devil did not appear beside...