Ruggiero Ricci - Ruggiero Ricci - Complete Decca Recordings [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.The most complete tribute ever issued to the fiendish fingers and sublime artistry of a true virtuoso, Ruggiero Ricci - a feast of concerto, solo and recital repertoire recorded by Ricci, collected together for the first time, and including a previously unpublished set of the Brahms Violin Sonatas. rrThis 20CD Limited Edition boxset complete with original jackets is divided into three sections: Violin and Orchestra; Solo Violin; Violin and Piano.

rrBorn Roger Rich to an Italian immigrant father on a Californian army base in 1918, he became Ruggiero Ricci when he was introduced to the New York musical public as a child prodigy violinist. By the time of his debut on Decca u2013 the Tchaikovsky Concerto conducted by Sargent in 1950 u2013 he was an experienced performer and recording artist who had already stunned audiences on both sides of the Atlantic with the solo-violin repertoire he would make his own: not only Bach but also Ysaye, Wieniawski and most of all Paganini, whose Caprices he was the first to record complete later in 1950. At the close of the Tchaikovsky sessions, the musicians of the New Symphony Orchestra burst into spontaneous applause.

rrA new and typically illuminating essay by Tully Potter on Ricciu2019s life and recorded legacy draws on previously unpublished correspondence and sheds light on the background to many of these recordings.

rrNotable records of Ricciu2019s famous cantabile in concerto repertoire include a hugely influential Paganini album with Anthony Collins and a gripping account of the Sibelius with Oivin Fjeldstad. There are two recordings of the Mendelssohn (1957 and 1974), the first with another u2018prodigyu2019, the conductor Piero Gamba, and the second recorded in Deccau2019s Phase 4 stereo with Jean Fournet. He strikes sparks in partnership with Ernest Ansermet for Ravelu2019s Tzigane and the solos in Tchaikovskyu2019s Orchestral Suites. These (Suites Nos. 3 and 4) as well as sections featuring the solo violin, from the Fistoulari u2018Phase 4u2019 recording of Swan Lake, are included in this collection.

rrDecca partnered Ricci with several notable pianists for recital repertoire, starting with his former teacher Louis Persinger and including Friedrich Gulda. Many of these chamber recordings (a Sarasate album, sonatas by Weber, Richard Strauss and Prokofiev) were made not in the Decca studios but in Ricciu2019s home in New Jersey. While he recorded the Second and Third Brahms Sonatas with Julius Katchen in London in 1957, he also taped the cycle of three sonatas at home with Katchen three years earlier. These 1954 performances are issued here for the first time: essential listening for all fans of great violin playing.

rru201cThis young Americanu2019s really remarkable accuracy in playing the most difficult passages is certain to cause many a trained fiddler to mop his forehead in amazement.u201d American Record Guide, July 1951 (Paganini Caprices)

rru201cI look forward to more discs by this first-rate duo u2026 His natural elegance u2026 stands him in good stead in the Prokofiev, where his partner at the piano also distinguishes himself by some most artistic leggiero playing.u201d Gramophone, October 1953 (Prokofiev & Strauss Sonatas)

rru201cThere is some truly amazing fiddling here ... combining faultlessly brilliant technique with unusually warm tone u2026 A u2018mustu2019 for all violinists.u201d High Fidelity, October 1954 (Paganini Concertos)

BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto In D Major, Op. 61

PAGANINI: Violin Concerto No. 1 In D Major, Op. 6

SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto In D Minor, Op. 47

MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto In E Minor, Op. 64

PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 1 In D Major, Op. 19

LALO: Symphonie Espagnole, Op. 21

TCHAIKOVKSY: Violin Concerto In D Major, Op. 35, TH.59

MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto In E Minor, Op. 64, MWV O14

TCHAIKOVSKY: Suite No. 3 In G Major, Op. 55

PAGANINI: Caprices, Op. 1 (1950 Recording)

PAGANINI: Caprices, Op. 1 (1959 Recording)

BARTOK: Sonata For Solo Violin, Sz.117

JS BACH: Sonata No. 1 In G Minor For Solo Violin, BWV 1001

RICHARD STRAUSS: Violin Sonata In E Flat Major, Op. 18

BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No. 7 In C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2

BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No. 1 In G Major, Op. 78

BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No. 2 In A Major, Op. 100

SARASATE: 8 Danzas Espanolas

PAGANINI: Le Streghe, Op. 8 (arr. Kreisler)

WIENIAWSKI: Scherzo-Tarantelle, Op. 16

Fantasia On The G String (after Rossiniu2019s u2018Mose In Egittou2019)

ELGAR: La Capricieuse, Op. 17

Moto Perpetuo, Op. 11

VON VECSEY: Caprice No. 1 For Violin And Piano: Le Vent

TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto In D Major, Op. 35, TH.59

PAGANINI: Violin Concerto No. 2 In B Minor, Op. 7

TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade Melancolique; Scherzo (from Souvenir Du2019un Lieu Cher)

BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1 In G Minor, Op. 26

PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2 In G Minor, Op. 63

DVORAK: Violin Concerto In A Minor, Op. 53, B.108

TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto In D Major, Op. 35, TH.59

PROKOFIEV: Violin Sonata No. 2 In D Major, Op. 94a

Violin Sonata No. 2 In A Major, Op. 100

Violin Sonata No. 3 In D Minor, Op. 108

Introduction And Variations On u2018Nel Cor Piu Non Mi Sentou2019 For Solo Violin

KROLL: Banjo And Fiddle

TCHAIKOVSKY: Suite No. 4 In G Major, Op. 61 u2018Mozartianau2019

STRAVINSKY: Elegie For Solo Violin

JS BACH: Partita No. 2 In D Minor For Solo Violin, BWV 1004

BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No. 10 In G Major, Op. 96

Variations On u2018God Save The Kingu2019, Op. 9

CHOPIN: Nocturne No. 20 In C Sharp Minor, Op. Posth. (Trans. Milstein)

SARASATE: Carmen u2013 Fantaisie De Concert, Op. 25

PROKOFIEV: Sonata In D Major For Solo Violin, Op. 115

La Campanella (arr. Kochanski)

SMETANA: Andantino (Z Domoviny)

KHACHATURIAN: Violin Concerto In D Minor

TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake, Op. 20 (excerpts)

HINDEMITH: Sonata For Solo Violin, Op. 31 No. 1

Violin Sonata No. 3 In D Minor, Op. 108

Sonata In E Minor, Op. 3 No. 6

SUK: Burleska (Four Pieces For Violin And Piano, Op. 17 No. 4)

RAVEL: Tzigane u2013 Concert Rhapsody For Violin And Orchestra

Sonata For Solo Violin, Op. 31 No. 2

I Palpiti, Op. 13 (arr. Kreisler)

Caprice Basque, Op. 24

Introduction Et Tarantelle, Op. 43

SARASATE: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 No. 1

Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20

ACHRON: Hebrew Melody

WEBER: Six Sonates Progressives For Violin And Piano, Op. 10

SARASATE: Jota Aragonesa, Op. 27

SAINT-SAENS: Havanaise, Op. 83

HUBAY: Der Zephir (from 6 Blumenleben For Violin And Piano, Op. 30 No. 5)

SAINT-SAENS: Introduction Et Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28

MOSZKOWSKI: Guitarre, Op. 45 No. 2 (arr. Sarasate)

BAZZINI: La Ronde Des Lutins u2013 Scherzo Fantastique, Op. 25

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