JAVS Fall 1991

from "Discopaedia Present: Masters of the Bow, Edition 2," record number MBI030 (made in Canada). The Strad Magazine in 1987 pressed and release an LP called "The Strad Collection." It includesPrimrose playing Pagannini Caprices No. 13 and 5, and Lionel Tertis playing Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro. The remainder of the LP includes performances by Joachim, Sarasate, Maude Powell and others. It is available directly from the magazine. "The Smithsonian Collection of Recordings" on Washington, D.C. released a 7 LP set entitled "Virtuosi." Primrose is represented by his long, out of print, recording of Brahms Sonata No.1 with William Kapell, piano. Other artists include Milstein, Szigeti, Kreisler, Heifetz, Menuhin, Enescu, Casals, Feuermann, Schnabel, Rachmaninoff, Lipati, Rubenstein and others. Available directly from the Smithsonian, the record number is R 032 (LOR.. 9265). Additionally, the Heifetz/Primrose recordings of chamber music (with violinist Virginia Majewski) are currently available on RCA compact discs featuring the Brahms G Major Sextet, Schubert Quintet and other works. Also out: Berlioz: Harold in Italy, Op. 16, Yuri Bashmet (viola), Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Eliahu Inbal, DEMON CD CO.. 73207.

might be aesthetic quarrels, but from the standpoint of craft, they are well ..done, interesting treatments of the viola and voice.

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-Tom HaU, Chapman College

Primrose re... issues on CD

Biddulph Recordings of London announces a fall release of a CD of 15 vintage Primrose recordings. These are on RCA Victor masters and are pieces recorded in the 1930's and 1940's which were never released. Following this CD containing Primrose solo numbers, Biddulph will release in a set, four recordings by the Primrose Quartet- the Brahms Bb Quartet, Schumann Piano Quintet, Smetana E Minor Quartet, and the "Seven Last Words" by Haydn. JAVS will carry further details regarding these significant re .. issues in the fall journal. The following releases are other Primrose recordings currently circulating and recommended for investigation: Sixty..four minutes and thirty.. nine seconds of Primrose's earliest violin recordings from the 1920's along with his Boccherini A Major Sonata on viola are now available on an LP

Margin Graphics from Die Kunst des Geigenbaues by Otto Mockel, Bernard Friedrich Voigt, Verlag Handwerk und Technik, Hamburg'

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