The Complete Solo Recordings 1929-36

Camille Saint-Saens (Composer), Manuel de Falla (Composer), Enrique Granados (Composer), Maria Theresia von Paradis (Composer), Antonio Vivaldi (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Edouard Lalo (Composer), Henry Eccles (Composer), Martin P. Marsick (Composer), Isaac Albeniz (Composer), Ede Poldini (Composer), Karol Szymanowski (Composer), Jean-Antoine Desplanes (Composer), Tommaso Antonio Vitali (Composer), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Francesco Maria Veracini (Composer), Claude Debussy (Composer), Gabriel Faure (Composer), Domenico Paradies (Composer), Giovanni Battista Vitali (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Camille Saint-Saens, Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados, Maria Theresia von Paradis, Antonio Vivaldi, et al.
• Audio CD (November 30, 1995)
• Label: Apr UK
• ASIN: B000004ACU
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,565,712 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Le Déluge, oratorio for voices, chorus & orchestra, Op. 45: Prélude

2. La Vida breve, opera, G. 35/39 (2 versions): Danza espańola No. 1

3. Work(s): unspecified Danza espańola

4. Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from 'Popular Spanish Songs' by Kochanski): Jota

5. Work(s): Sicilienne

6. Concerto for 2 violins, cello, strings & continuo in D minor ('L'estro armonico' No. 11), Op. 3/11, RV 565: Adagio (Largo)

7. German dances (6) for orchestra, K. 567: Piano Concerto: Andante

8. Rapsodie norvégienne, for orchestra

9. Rapsodie norvégienne, for orchestra

10. Sonata for violin in G minor

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Intrada

2. Chiacona per la lettera B, for violone & continuo (from Partite sopra diverse Sonate)

3. Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006: Gavotte en Rondeau

4. Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006: Preludio

5. Serenade No. 7 for orchestra in D major ('Haffner'), K. 250 (K. 248b): Rondo

6. Sonatas (12) for violin & continuo, Op. 2 ('Sonate Accademiche'): Menuett & Gavotte (from Sonata No. 11, Op. 2/11); Giga (from Sonat

7. Préludes (12) for piano, Book I, L. 117: Minstrels

8. Berceuse, for violin & piano (or orchestra) in D major, Op. 16

9. Symphonie espagnole, for violin & orchestra in D minor, Op. 21: 1. Allegro non troppo

10. Symphonie espagnole, for violin & orchestra in D minor, Op. 21: 2. Scherzando (Allego molto)

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great French violinist at his best, July 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Complete Solo Recordings 1929-36 (Audio CD)

These 2CDs shows the great French violnist Jacques Thibaud at his best. Thibaud made some wonderful sonatas and chamber music recording in the 1920s with Cortot and Casals. These recordings show that Thibaud was one of the most distinguished violin soloist as well as chamber musician. His interpretations of Saint-Saens and Spanish music of Granados and de Falla are one of the best I heard, and his interpretations of Baroque and Classical short pieces are deliciously alive and utterly lacking in "dry academism." His recording of Symphonie Espagnole was recorded live at later date (1940s)and technically he is not as clean as violinists today, but what an overpoweringly individual performance it is! Thibaud really "owned" this piece, and through his hands the piece becomes something very special. In my opinion, Thibaud was an incomparable charmer of the violin, in the class of Kreisler, and these recordings prove it! Enjoy!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars There really were "good old days", April 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Complete Solo Recordings 1929-36 (Audio CD)

If you have ever feel empty when listening to modern violinusts you come to appreciate the "good old days" of violinists like Thibaud and Kreisler. I'll be blunt. They knew how to make a portamento and they were not ashamed to do it. Thirty years ago when I was studying the violin with teachers who grew up with models like Kreisler and Thibaud they would give examples of the old style slides and say "we don't do that anymore".

Today's soulless playing may be an overreaction to tasteless imitators of Kreisler, Thibaud and their contemporaries. But the baby went out with the bath water and all we have today is a tub with a ring around it.

Masterpieces on this set include the Eccles Sonata in G, the Sicilienne by von Paradies, the Faure Berceuse, a transcription of Mozart's "Elvira Madigan", the Vitali Chaconne and more . The slow movement of the Lalo Symphonie Espagnole is a revelation.

Young violinists should steep themselves in this sound and then find the old teachers who remember how to draw the bow to obtain this distilled tone and move the hand to connect the notes in such musical ways.

But if this music fails to bring a tear to the eye or evoke a gasp of delight then he/she should carefully place his/her violin the its case and take up the electric guitar.