Audiophile 180g Virgin Vinyl LP!
Mastered from the Original Masters of Universal Music!
Pressed at Pallas!
Violinist Ruggiero Ricci, accompanied by pianist Leon Pommers, performs compositional works by Vivaldi, Mozart, Brahms, Handel and more.
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.
Features
- Audiophile 180g Virgin Vinyl
- Pressed at Pallas GmbH in Germany
- Audiophile analogue mastering by Rainer Maillard at Emil Berliner Studios in Berlin
- Mastered from the original analogue master tapes of Universal Music
- Analogphonic release
- 4-panel insert included
Musicians
Ruggiero Ricci | violin |
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Leon Pommers | piano |
Selections
Side 1:
- 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 2:
- 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)