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A big Nathan Milstein collection

  • paulrterry1921
  • Jun 5
  • 3 min read

Entitled "Great DG & EMI Recordings", this is one of those South Korean boxed sets that has a short shelf-life, and is difficult to obtain in the Western world. It was issued about 10 years ago by Universal, but most of the recordings are on EMI.


Here's an overview of the contents:-


CD1: Mendelssohn & Bruch Violin Concertos (1953) Pittsburgh SO / Steinberg


CD2: "Recital" (mono, 1953, 1954) Pergolesi, Schumann, Brahms, Suk, Bloch & Milstein (Carlo Bussotti, piano)


CD3: Brahms Violin Concerto (mono, 1953, 1954) Pittsburgh SO / Steinberg


CD4: Prokofiev Violin Concerto & Lalo Symphonie Espagnole (mono, 1954) St. Louis SO / Golschmann


CD5: Beethoven Violin Concerto (mono, 1/1955) Pittsburgh SO / Steinberg


CD6: Prokofiev, Händel & Vitali (mono, 1/1955) (Arthur Balsam, piano)


CD7: Miniatures (mono, 1,3/1956) Smetana, Gluck, Wieniawski, Vivaldi, Kodály, Chopin, Ries, Nardini, Brahms, Massenet, Stravinsky, Paradis & Rimsky-Korsakov (Leon Pommers, piano)


CD8: Mozart & Bach Concertos (mono, 9/1956) Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 In A Major, KV219 'Turkish'

Bach: Violin Concerto In A Minor, BWV 1041 Harry Blech & the Festival Orchestra (26th Sept 1956)


CD9 &CD10: Bach Sonatas & Partitas (mono, 3/1954-3/1956)


CD11 Dvorak & Glazunov Violin Concertos, (4/1957) Pittsburgh SO / Steinberg


CD12 Vignettes (mono, 4/1957) Wieniawski, De Falla, Ravel, Sarasate, Schumann, Bach, Nováček, Tchaikovsky& Debussy (Leon Pommers, piano)


CD13 Beethoven Sonatas 8 & 9 (mono, 12/1957) Arthur Balsam, piano


CD14 Mozart Sonatas (mono, 1,4/1957, 3/1958) KV 296, KV 304 & KV 301 (Leon Pommers, piano)


CD15 Four Italian Sonatas (1/1959) Tartini, Vivaldi, Corelli & Geminiani (Leon Pommers, piano)


CD16 The Art Of Milstein (12/1958-4/1959) Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 'Spring' (Rudolf Firkušný, piano)

Music by Szymanowski, Debussy, Fauré, Pizzetti & Sarasate (Leon Pommers, piano)


CD17 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (6th 4/1959) Pittsburgh SO / Steinberg


CD18 Mendelssohn, Bruch (10/1959) Philharmonia / L. Barzin


CD19 Masterpieces (2/1960) Mozart, Beethoven, Wieniawski, Nováček, Stravinsky & Saint-Saëns

Walter Süsskind & the Concert Arts Orchestra


CD20 Encores (3,4/1959) Kreisler, Schumann, Szymanowski, Händel, Leclair, Mendelssohn, Brahms & Poldini (Leon Pommers, piano) PLUS Violin Sonata (Debussy) Firkušný, piano


CD21 Brahms Violin Concerto (6/1960) Fistoulari / Philharmonia


CD22 Mendelssohn - Tchaikovsky (9/1972) VPO / Abbado


CD23 Brahms Violin Concerto (12/1974) VPO / Jochum


CD24 & 25 Bach Sonatas & Partitas (2,4,9/1973, 9/1974)


CD26 Violin Recital (11/1975) Geminiani, Schubert, Liszt, Stravinsky, Kodály & Mussorgsky (Georges Pludermacher, piano)


CD27 Beethoven Violin Concerto (6/1960) Erich Leinsdorf / Philharmonia


CD28 Vivaldi: Four Concerti (1/1962) RV 350, Rv 199, Rv 186 & RV 352 with Ensemble


CD29 Vivaldi: Four Concerti, vol. II (2/1963) RV 213, RV 340, RV 234 & RV 233 with Ensemble


CD30 Music of old Russia Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky & Rimsky-Korsakov

Robert Irving / Orchestra


CD31 Mozart Violin Concertos No. 4 In D Major, KV218 & No. 5 In A Major, KV219 'Turkish'

Philharmonia Orchestra


CD32 Prokofiev, two concertos

No. 1 In D, Carlo Maria Giulini & the Philharmonia Orchestra

No. 2 In G Minor, Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos & the New Philharmonia Orchestra


CD33 Bach & Vivaldi Violin Concertos Concerto In E Major, BWV 1042, Concerto In D Minor, RV 242, Concerto In A Minor, BWV 1041 & Concerto In A Major, RV 343 with Ensemble


CD34 Goldmark & Beethoven

Violin Concerto No. 1 (Goldmark) Harry Blech Orchestra & the Philharmonia Orchestra (July 1957)

Romances No. 1 & 2 (Beethoven) Anatole Fistoulari & the Philharmonia Orchestra (June 1964)


CD35 Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No. 3 (6/1963) & Chausson Poeme


CD36 Glazunov & Dvorak Violin Concertos (6/1966)


CD37 Concerti for Two Violins with Erica Morini (3/1964)

Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins, BWV 1043

Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins, Cello And Strings, RV 565 With Chamber Orchestra

Sonata In C Major For Two Violins And Continuo, BWV 1037 Composed By – Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (attrib. J S Bach) Betty Fischer, piano


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