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Mischa Elman

Wienawski: Concerto 2 (w/Hilsberg)
Tchaikovsky: Concerto (w/Barbirolli), Sérénade Mélancolique (w/Shilkret)
rec. 1929-50
8.110912

Reviews by John Quinn and Jonathan Woolf

Joseph Fuchs

Beethoven: Violin sonatas 1-4
rec. 1952
8.111251

Review by Jonathan Woolf

Beethoven: Violin sonatas 5-7
rec. 1952
8.111252

Review by Jonathan Woolf

Beethoven: Violin sonatas 8-10
rec. 1952
8.111253

Review by Jonathan Woolf

Jascha Heifetz

Heifetz Centenary Memorial Edition
8.107001

Review by Paul Serotsky

Brahms: Concerto (w/Koussevitzky)
Beethoven: Concerto (w/Toscanini)
rec. 1939-40
8.110936

Reviews by Colin Clarke, John Phillips and Jonathan Woolf

Elgar: Concerto (w/Sargent)
Walton: Concerto (w/Goossens)
rec. 1941-49
8.110939

Reviews by Rob Barnett and Gwyn Parry-Jones

Brahms: Double concerto (w/Feuermann & Ormandy)
Glazunov: Concerto (w/Barbirolli)
Bruch: Scottish fantasy (w/Steinberg)
rec. 1934-47
8.110940

Reviews by Jonathan Woolf and Simon Jenner

Prokofiev: Concerto 2 (w/Koussevitzky)
Gruenberg: Concerto (w/Monteux)
rec.
8.110942

Reviews by Rob Barnett and Simon Jenner

Vieuxtemps: Concertos 4 (w/Barbirolli) & 5 (w/Sargent)
Saint-Saëns: Introduction & rondo, Havanaise (w/Barbirolli)
Sarasate: Ziegeunerweisen (w/Barbirolli)
Waxman: Carmen fantasy (w/Vorhees)
rec. 1935-47
8.110943

Review by Rob Barnett

Bach: Concertos (w/Wallenstein)
Mozart: Concerto 5 (w/Wallenstein)
rec. 1946-53
8.111288

Review by Jonathan Woolf

Bronislaw Huberman

Beethoven: Violin concerto (w/Szell)
Tchaikovsky: Violin concerto (w/Steinberg)
rec. 1928-34
8.110903

Review by Harry Downey

Louis Kaufman

Vivaldi: Violin concertos op. 12 (1st recording of Four Seasons) (w/Swoboda, Dahinden)
rec. 1947-50
8.110297-98

Reviews by Jonathan Woolf and Paul Shoemaker

Fritz Kreisler

Beethoven, Mendelssohn: Concertos (w/Blech)
rec. 1926
8.110909

Reviews by Gwyn Parry-Jones and Peter Grahame Woolf

Bach: Concerto for two violins (w/Zimbalist)
Mozart: Concerto 4 (w/Sargent)
Paganini/Kreisler: Concerto (w/Ormandy)
Kreisler (after Vivaldi): Concerto
rec. 1915-45
8.110922

Review by Adrian Smith

Kreisler plays Kreisler
rec. 1942-46
8.110947

Review by Jonathan Woolf

Beethoven: Concerto (w/Barbirolli)
Mendelssohn: Concerto (w/Ronald)
rec. 1935-36
8.110959

Reviews by William Hedley and Jonathan Woolf

Beethoven: Sonatas 1-10 (w/Rupp)
rec. 1935-36
8.110969-71

Reviews by Jonathan Woolf and Tony Haywood

Kreisler plays Kreisler
rec. 1936-38
8.110992

Review by Jonathan Woolf, Em Marshall and Göran Forsling

Yehudi Menuhin - see separate page

Nathan Milstein

Dvorak: Concerto (w/Dorati)
Glazunov: Concerto (w/Steinberg)
rec. 1949-51
8.110975

Review by Colin Clarke

Bruch: Concerto 1 (w/Dorati)
Mendelssohn: Concerto (w/Walter)
Tchaikovsky: Concerto (w/Stock)
rec. 1940-45
8.110977

Review by Jonathan Woolf

Brahms: Double concerto (w/Piatigorsky, Reiner), Sonata 3 (w/Horowitz)
Beethoven: 'Spring' Sonata (w/Balsam)
rec. 1950-51
8.111051

Review by Jonathan Woolf

Tchaikovsky: Violin concerto (w/Munch)
Encores
rec. 1949-53
8.111259

Review by Ewan McCormick

David Oistrakh

Bach: Concerto 2
Mozart: Concerto 4
Mendelssohn: Concerto in E minor
rec. 1955
8.111246

Review by Tim Perry

Maud Powell

Complete 1904-17 Recordings Vol. 1
8.110961

Reviews by Jonathan Woolf and Simon Jones

Complete 1904-17 Recordings Vol. 2
8.110962

Review by Jonathan Woolf

Complete 1904-17 Recordings Vol. 3
8.110963

Review by Jonathan Woolf

Complete 1904-17 Recordings Vol. 4
8.110993

Review by Jonathan Woolf

Albert Sammons

Elgar: Concerto (w/Wood)
Delius: Concerto (w/Sargent)
rec. 1929-44
8.110951

Reviews by John Quinn and Rob Barnett

Mozart: Sinfonia concertante (w/Tertis, Harty)
Elgar: Sonata (w/Murdoch)
rec. 1926-35
8.110967

Review by Christopher Howell

Joseph Szigeti

Mozart: Concerto 4 (w/Beecham)
Beethoven: Concerto (w/Walter)
rec. 1932-34
8.110946

Reviews by John Leeman and Christopher Howell

Brahms: Concerto (w/Harty)
Mendelssohn: Concerto (w/Beecham)
rec. 1928-33
8.110948

Reviews by William Hedley and Jonathan Woolf

Prokofiev: Concerto 1 (w/Beecham)
Bloch: Concerto (w/Much)
Bartok: Portrait (w/Lambert)
rec. 1935-46
8.110973

Review by Rob Barnett

Bach: Concertos (w/Goehr, Szell)
Tartini: Concerto
rec. 1937-40
8.110979

Reviews by Paul Shoemaker and Jonathan Woolf

 

   

 


 

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