Salvatore Accardo - Omaggio A Heifetz (2021) [SACD]

The professional collaboration and friendship between Salvatore Accardo and Giulio Cesare Ricci has lasted for 26 years now. There are many albums made; this project dedicated to Heifetz completes the great violinist's discography.

The recording was made by Giulio Cesare Ricci in the splendid historical Sala del Gonfalone in Roma with very special acoustics. He used the legendary Neumann U47 and M49 microphones. The mastering was by Giulio Cesare Ricci using the Signoricci system, entirely analog and tube. The master was created by transferring the analog master recorded with the Nagra 4s 15ips, 2 tracks, 1 / 4inch to dCS A/D Converter DSD. No editing. All the tracks on this record are heard as they were performed.

Accompaniment was by pianist Laura Manzini. Heiftez was a great violinist and as a composer he wrote great musical pages for violin and piano; all very catchy, fun, virtuoso and very dynamic "da salotto" compositions.


Tracks:

George Gershwin (1898-1937)
1. Summertime And A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
2. It Aint Necessarily So
3. Temp di Blues
4. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
5. My Mans Gone Now
6. 3 Preludi: Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
7. 3 Preludi: Andate con moto e poco rubato
8. 3 Preludi: Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
R.Russell Bennett (1894-1981)
9. Hexapoda: Gut Bucket Gus
10. Hexapoda: Jane Shakes Her Hair
11. Hexapoda: Betty and Harold Close Their Eyes
12. Hexapoda: Jim Jives
13. Hexapoda: Till Down Sunday
14. Slow And Lonely
G.Rossini (1792-1868)/M. Castelnuovo Tedesco (1895-1968)
15. Figaro
A.K. Glazunov (1865-1936)
16. Meditation
Sergei. Prokofiev (1891-1953)
17. March
Franz Schubert (1979-1828)
18. Ave Maria
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
19. Presto In B Flat
Flausino Valle (1894-1954)
20. Ao Pe Ea Fogueira (Preludio XV)
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
21. Sevilla
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
22. Beau Soir
Sergei Prokofiev
23. Masks Da "Romeo And Juliette"
Ernesto Halffter (1905-1989)
24. Danza De La Gitana
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
25. The Bumble-Bee
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
26. On Wings Of Song

Personnel:

Salvatore Accardo (violin)
Laura Manzini (piano)