Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Tibor Bisztriczky - Virtuoso Violin (2015)

Tracklist

01. Bartók: 6 Roumanian Folk Dances, BB 68, Sz. 56-Arranged For Violin And Piano By Z. Székely (b.1903)
02. Stravinsky: Chanson russe
03. Stravinsky: Petrouchka / Scene 1-Russian Dance
04. Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des Animaux, R.125-Le Cygne
05. Kreisler: Caprice viennois Op. 2
06. Kreisler: Liebesleid
07. Kreisler: Liebesfreud
08. Reger: Wiegenlied Op. 79 d 1
09. Schuberl-Dresden: L'abeille (Die Biene)
10. Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5 In G Minor, WoO 1
11. Elgar: La Capricieuse Op. 17
12. Perpetuum mobile
13. Mussorgsky: Sorochintsy Fair-Gopak
14. Mussorgsky: Hebräisches Lied
15. Falla: La vida breve-Arr. By Fritz Kreisler / Act 2-Spanish Dance
16. Chopin: Nocturne No.2 In E Flat, Op.9 No.2-Arr. Pablo de Sarasate
17. Martinů: Arabeske No. 4 (Etudes rythmique)
18. Tchaikovsky: Valse sentimentale, Op.51, No.6, TH 143
19. Hubay: 6 Blumenleben for violin & piano, Op. 30-5. Der Zephir
20. Kodály: Valsette-arr. Emile Telmányi (1892-1988)
21. Zsolt: Libelle
22. Dvořák: 8 Slavonic Dances, Op. 72-arr. Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)-No. 2 In E Minor (Allegretto grazioso)
23. Chaminade: Serenade Espagnole-Arr. Fritz Kreisler
24. Rachmaninoff: Elegie In E Flat Minor, Op.3, No.1-arr. Jenö Hubay (1858-1937)
25. Debussy: Le petit nègre, L. 114 (Arr. For Violin And Piano by André Pascal)
26. Liszt: Valse oubliée No. 1 in F sharp, S.215

The violinist who straddled the divide between the old ways and the new, was the Viennese virtuoso, Wolfgang Eduard Schneiderhan. He was born on 28th May 1915 and beginning violin lessons at five, he polished his technique under Sevcík and Winkler. From the 1950s onward, Schneiderhan displayed all the qualities normally associated with German musicians. He was scrupulously correct and serious about his calling: punctual, polite, always perfectly prepared. When he played, his attitude was unshowy and the music that emerged was shaped with a classical containment. He did his best to serve the composer by using a decent edition of the music and presenting it with due humility. This program, recorded with the American pianist, Albert Hirsh, was issued by Deutsche Grammophon in 1958 on four 45rpm ‘extended play’ records and receives its first release on CD.

Also marking its CD debut is an extremely rare recording of violin encores by Tibor Bisztriczky, a typical member of the Hungarian school who was born at Arad, now in Romania, on 28th July 1908. He made few records, the best known being this ten-inch Deutsche Grammophon LP reproduced here which changes hands for tidy sums. He was an excellent player who as Tully Potter points out in his liner notes for this issue, had the misfortune to live in an era when Hungarian violinists were numerous.

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