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Joseph Szigeti - The Mercury Masters (6CD Box Set)
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Joseph Szigeti

    Joseph Szigeti - The Mercury Masters (6CD Box Set)

    $59.99

    Product Code: 0028948437566

    Romanticist and classicist, modernist and conservative, the violinist Joseph Szigeti defied classification. His wide repertoire ranged from Bach to Bartók and beyond, and he played it all with skill and understanding, becoming known as "the thinking man’s virtuoso." Issued internationally and complete, for the first time on CD in this Limited Edition original-jackets collection, these Mercury recordings were made in New York and London during the autumn of Szigeti’s career, between 1959 and 1961. The original Mercury tapes have been given new high-definition transfers at Abbey Road Studios, and then remastered by Thomas Fine.

    TRACK LIST

    CD 1
    BRAHMS Horn Trio
    Violin Sonata No. 2
    John Barrows ∙ Mieczysław Horszowski

    CD 2
    BRAHMS Violin Concerto
    Herbert Menges

    CD 3
    PROKOFIEV Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2
    Artur Balsam

    CD 4
    BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
    Antal Doráti

    CD 5
    PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1
    Herbert Menges
    STRAVINSKY Duo Concertant
    Roy Bogas

    CD 6
    HONEGGER Violin Sonata No. 1
    WEBERN Four Pieces, Op. 7
    DEBUSSY Violin Sonata
    IVES Violin Sonata No. 4
    BARTÓK Violin Sonata No. 2
    Roy Bogas