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...runs to eight hours of playing time, most music lovers will want to pick and choose among the ten volumes. Among the most outstanding are Volumes I and II, which include beautifully clear and simple performances of the six Brandenburg concertos, with such noted soloists as Violinists Joseph Szigeti, Alexander Schneider, Flutist John Wum-mer, Oboist Marcel Tabuteau. The chief interest in Volume III is The Musical Offering (which Bach began as an improvisation on a theme supplied by Frederick the Great). Volume VI contains two memorable performances: Casals playing the Sonata No. 3 for cello and piano, and Pianist...
Master's Touch. With Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting members of his New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Szigeti gave his sell-out audience four works for violin and orchestra-and nothing else, a rare program for the U.S. (though not for European audiences). He opened with the clear, forthright Corelli suite La Folia; then came the Brahms Violin Concerto, followed by Portrait No. 1, an early work of his late Hungarian compatriot and friend Bela Bartok, and finally the Beethoven Concerto...
Facing most often toward Conductor Mitropoulos, playing with the orchestra rather than in front of it, Szigeti again proved himself a master musician. Among the warm and thrilling tones there were occasionally irritating and unviolinlike sounds-scratching, coarseness of tone, a nervous, whining vibrato. But, as he had been showing U.S. audiences for a quarter of a century, Violinist Szigeti could still produce music with an impact seldom reached by many a more spectacular technician...
...Remote Corners. For Violinist Szigeti, that has been the goal ever since he went to England as a young man and his work with Composer-Pianist Ferruccio Busoni caused "the scales to fall away from my eyes." He concentrates on trying to play a composer's music "from the inside out" instead of putting a "superficial" gloss on it. Though he has a reputation for struggling painfully to prepare every concert, he actually practices very little. Says Szigeti: "Visitors always seem to find me in my shirtsleeves when I have finished 25 minutes of practice, and think I have...
When he is not touring, Szigeti lives quietly with his wife Wanda in Palos Verdes, Calif. He is just as eager to discover new music as he was in the '20s, when he introduced such works as Prokofiev's Concerto No. 1 and Roussel's Second Sonata and was soundly rebuked by many critics at the time. He is just as eager to discover new old music, for that matter. "Nothing would please me more than to find a lost Mendelssohn sonata," says Violinist Szigeti. "Digging into the remote corners of music keeps one bright and shiny...