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...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...
TOURAINE FESTIVAL (June 28-July 5), Meslay, central France, held in a barn built by monks in 1220, has scheduled performances by Pianists Sviatoslav Richter and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Violinist Henryk Szeryng, Soprano Evelyn Lear and her husband, Baritone Thomas Stewart...
...forever dashing off to the concert hall on emergency calls. "I usually discover there is nothing wrong," he says, "except with the artists' nerves. I tell them that their violin is fine and then they are happy." So, ultimately, are the audiences, for as Violinist Henryk Szeryng says, the miracle of "the fragile little box is that we can produce sounds that penetrate people's hearts and provoke tears just by drawing horsehair over sheep guts...
...symphonies are free from the national mannerisms that mark European orchestras. And while European players tend to grow phlegmatic in the security of their state-subsidized jobs, the self-supporting arrangement in the U.S. engenders a competition that compels each musician to produce his best. Says Concert Violinist Henryk Szeryng: "I always find that my best accompaniments in the U.S. are in February and March, the time when contracts come up for renewal...