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Please give the Bach Guild (1950s) Joseph Szigeti set a listen!

Posted by John Marks on January 29, 2024 at 16:42:39

In Reply to: Bach/Milstein: Which SACD? posted by Doktor Brahms on January 29, 2024 at 13:16:43:

I immediately bought the Milstein set when it came out on LP. I later became a close friend of Arturo Delmoni's, who had studied with Milstein.

So, in my world, NIL NISI BONUM when it comes to Nathan Milstein!

However, and not to pull rank on anyone, because I am sure I was a disappointment to all my violin teachers, in that, despite a degree of natural talent, I could never quite connect all the dots...

...that said, just being in the same room with Professor Kowalski was such a privilege. Let alone for him to play duos with me! In his pre-WWII youth he had been a student of Jacques Thibaud's (who was the dedicatee of Ysaÿe's "Obsession" sonata, which is all about Bach), and before that, Professor Kowalski had been student of two different students of Leopold Auer's (one of whom, Maia Bang, had been a classmate of Heifetz's).

Which is to say, I think I know at least a little about the violin.

Despite the mid-1950s mono recording, and despite Szigeti's disinclination to produce a beautiful tone for the sake of producing a beautiful tone... if I had to choose one Desert Island Bach solo-violin set... it would be Szigeti's.

I don't think of his approach as "cold," but I do think of it as "intellectual." Like a great Calculus lecture.

His arpeggios that start at m.89 of the Chaconne, for me, are the ones that are most filled with a sense of wonder and discovery. Some other players to me sound like they are spiritually on a treadmill, and they can't wait to jump off.

BTW... as one might imagine, I have attempted that section... or is the proper word "attacked"?

There is a claimed XRCD release of Szigeti's solo Bach, with language difficulties in its description.

Best of luck,

john

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