Ruggiero Ricci - The Glory Of Cremona – Brahms, Mozart, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, …
Ruggiero Ricci, violin
Leon Pommers, piano
1 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g Virgin Vinyl
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Pallas
Label : Analogphonic
Original Label : Brunswick
Remastered by Rainer Maillard at at Emil Berliner Studios in Berlin
Originally released in 1963
Reissued in 2019
Tracks:
Side A:
- Intrada (Desplanes)
- Larghetto (Nardini)
- Praeludium (Vivaldi)
- Cantabile And Waltz (Paganini)
- Adagio (Mozart)
- Improvisation, Op. 21, No.1 (Kabalevsky)
- Melodie Op. 42, No. 3 (Tchaikovsky)
Side B:
- Largo (Veracini)
- Sicilienne (Paradies)
- The Violin Maker Of Cremona (Hubay)
- Larghetto (Handel)
- Romance In A Major (Schumann)
- Hungarian Dance No. 20 (Brahms)
- Hungarian Dance No. 17 (Brahms)
- May Breeze (Song Without Words, Op. 62, No. 1) (Mendelssohn)
Reviews:
“Nobody who attended the session at which Ricci made this unusual recording is likely to forget the sight which greeted one on entering the studio: the long table, flanked by two pistol-packing Pinkerton detectives, bearing no fewer than fifteen of the world's highest pedigreed violins... Ricci took up the violins one by one, planted his feet firmly on the yellow chalk marks sketched at the prescribed distance from the microphones, and played on each instrument a selection chosen to show it to best advantage. It was a fascinating parade of pieces that are fiddle music par excellence, and Ricci's masculine, unmincing approach suited most of them very well indeed.” High Fidelity
Ratings :
Discogs : 4,84 / 5