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RECORDINGS

Beach: Viola Sonata; Barcarolle; La Captive, Berceuse; Mazurka; Invocation; Romance. Laura Klugherz, viola; Jill Timmons, piano. Centaur 2312 (Qualiton) Bruni: Viola Sonatas Op. 21; Antonello Farulli, viola; Gabriele Micheli, harpsichord; Francesco Dillon, cello. Dynamic S 2005 (Qualiton) Note: The first three sonatas are performed with per sonnel and instruments as listed above. The second group of three are performed by Farulli with Micheli performing on fortepiano alone. Brahms: Sonatas for Viola Op. 120 No. 1 and No. 2; Three Intermezzi for Piano; Christoph Schiller, viola; Michelle Mares, piano. Navalis 150 137-2 (Qualiton) Dohnanyi: Serenade for Violin, Viola, and Cello; Reger: String Trio; Francaix: Trio; Trio Ligeti, Leman LMN 44901 (Qualiton) Holmboe: Concertos No. 7, No. 8, No. 9; Tim Fredriksen, viola; Mikkel Futtrup, violin; Max Artved, oboe; Danish Radio Sin fonietta; Hannu Koivula, cond. DaCapo/ Marco Polo 8.224086 (Naxos) Frankel: Concerto for Viola; Concerto for Vi olin, Serenata Concertante; Brett Dean, viola, et al. Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Bris bane, Werner Andreus Albert, cond. CPO 999 422-2 (Naxos) Arthur Lourie: Quartets for Strings No. 1, No. 2, No. 3; Duo for Violin and Viola; Daniel Raiskin, viola; Members of the Utrecht Quartet. ASV CD DCA 1020 (Koch International) Mozart: Divertimento for String Trio K 563; Trio for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano; Georg Schmid, viola; Kurt Guntner, violin; Walter Note: Concerto No. 7 is for oboe, No. 9 is for violin and viola, and No. 8 is for orchestra.

Nothas, cello; Wolfgang Sawallisch, piano; Gerhard Starke, clarinet. Koch-Schwann SWN 312822 (Koch International) Reger: Trio for Viola, Violin and Piano; Complete Piano Trios; Gunter Teuffel, viola; Trio Parnassus. MDG 303 0751-2 (Koch International) Art of Oscar Shumsky: Historic Studio Recordings; Respighi: Sonata for Violin; Ravel: Sonata for Violin; Viotti: Concerto No. 22; Chopin (Arr. Sarasate) Nocturne in E-Flat; Wieniawski: Polonaise; Oscar Shum sky, violin; Artur Balsam, piano; Bernard Greenhouse, cello; Vladimir Sokolov, piano; Radio Art Concert Orch., D'Artega, cond; Longine Symphonette, Mishel Piastro, cond. Biddulph LAB 136 (VAl) Art of Oscar Shumsky: Historic Broadcast Recordings; Mozart: Rondo; Schubert: Ron deau Brillante; Ibert: The Little White Donkey, Glazunov: Grand Adagio; eight other compo sitions. Oscar Shumsky, violin; Curtis Sym pony Orch cond. by Fritz Reiner; Voice of Firestone Symph. Orch. cond. by Howard Barlow. Biddulph LAB 137 (VAl) Review: The two CDs recently released by the English record company Biddulph are the first entirely violin recordings I have reviewed for the journal Oscar Shumsky, who recently celebrated his eighty-first birthday, is repre sented here by recordings made in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. Shumsky has also made recordings on the viola and is the father of well-known viola virtuoso Eric Shumsky. Many were taken from radio broadcasts, pri vate recordings, and unreleased commercial recordings. Shumsky is well known to Prim rose enthusiasts since he was selected by Primrose to be the first violinist of the justly famous Primrose String Quartet when Shum sky was in his early twenties. For the most part he was involved in independent violin circles in the New York area. If there was a