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Antonio Brosa, violin - BBC Scottish Orchestra conducted by Dr. Ian Whyte
Eugene Ysaye: Sonata in A minor, op.27 no.2
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Antonio Brosa, violin
Stereo Records & Tapes - SRT/Custom 009. Private LP - released in 1975.
FLAC files CHARM: Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Andante) Antonio Brosa website (now defunct..)
"The Times" 22/11/54 review of the Ysaye + SRT 009 label scan >>>
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ReplyDeleteHa! Nice weather..& prefer the Sunshine. I was intending uploading this (extremely rare) LP some time back. Had originally uploaded as a 96mp3 in 2007. Excellent +++ performances - and the sound is quite vivid - with just a few 'noises' from the Radio transmission + a few poor edits.. Will do the occasional transfer if time/weather permits..
ReplyDeleteI can't thank you enough for the Britten Concerto played by its dedicatee!
ReplyDeleteThe Andante from the Mendelssohn VC from the CHARM site is also very beautifully played.
Very generous of you to make this available.
Fortunately it was a doddle to transfer (although there's a minor 'glitch' in the Ysaye, which defeated me..). Likely given by Brosa to various friends (the Britten-Pears Foundation have a copy): I think this was Alan Bush's copy. No immediate plans to upload more LPs - but did notice Britten's 'live' July 1959 'Missa Brevis' (mono EP) hasn't been re-issued - so could add that to some other mono Britten later (also his LXT Haydn Symphonies + some other 'rare-ish' mono Haydn symphonies by others). Also have the LPO/Barbirolli 78 'Swan Lake' with Brosa on side3 of 4sides - but see no need to add it at this point (might do so with the 1950 Halle 78set + Irving's excellent Philharmonia CLP).
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for making this eminently important recording available! I say 'important' not only because Antonio Brosa contributed a lot before, while and after Britten wrote the concert and was its first performer (1940 NYPO Barbirolli; actually he wasn't the dedicatee but Henry Boys), but because I was so extremely surprised how different this interpretation here is from almost any more contemporary performances - the orchestra is reeeaaally quick and Brosa himself seems to be in a hurry, eager to communicate with passion and force and urge, and unlike most performers today, e.g. at the end of the cadenza and again the end of the last movement he doesn't produce those hushed, vanishing, subtle tone but is in an almost triumphant, full silvery tone - quite remarkable all in all! And quite the opposite of e.g. Lubotsky - I hope that's not what Britten had meant after his 1950 recording with the latter that this was the interpretation he 'had been waiting for'... ;-)
ReplyDeleteEchoing the thanks above - it's incredible to hear the first performer of this music and absurd that this doesn't have wider circulation.
ReplyDeleteSomething more than 200 downloads, thus far; so has become reasonably well known (also now appears in Michael Herman's online discography/s @ MusicWeb - which might prompt a 'search', or two..).
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