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Johanna Martzy – Schubert & Dvořák: Works for Violin (Remastered 2017) (2017)
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In an essay Glenn Gould referred to Johanna Martzy as “an artist who has always seemed to me to be, at least in North America, the most underrated of the great violinists of our age.” – And indeed it has only been a few years that Johanna Martzy’s all too few recordings have made a spectacular revival, so that now she has a place among the great violinists of the 20th Century – a place she really deserves. This albums presents two Sonatines by Franz Schubert in which Johanna Martzy is accompanied by her long-time pianist Jean Antonietti and finally the great Dvorak Violin Concerto accompanied by the RIAS Symphony Orchestra Berlin conducted by Ferenc Fricsay, recorded in 1953, which is the reference work on this album.
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Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti – Schubert: Works for Violin and Piano. Grand duo, Sonatinas, Fantaisie & Rondo brillante (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:04:16 minutes | 2,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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Schubert was a competent violinist and violist and his four violin sonatas pose no problems for skilled players. It is strange, then, that so few really recommendable recordings of them have been made. Apart from these beautiful interpretations by Martzy and Antonietti, which have become legendary, one can find individual works by Fritz Kreisler and Sergei Rachmaninov, or Josef Suk and Jan Panenka, but few others that catch the essential simplicity of the pieces. The Rondo brillant and the Fantasy on Schubert’s song Sei mir gegrüsst, on the other hand, are among the most difficult works in the violin-and piano repertoire, written for the shortlived Bohemian virtuoso Josef Slavík. Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin were famous for playing them but such big names as Jascha Heifetz and David Oistrakh have fallen flat on their faces, trying to unravel the secrets of the Fantasy. Martzy and Antonietti bring beautiful, meticulously prepared playing to all half dozen pieces. Their interpretations, which are well balanced and clearly recorded for the time, have an inherent strength but also pliancy, transparency and unsentimental sweetness where required.
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Johanna Martzy, Philharmonia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch – Mozart & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 50:47 minutes | 1021 MB | Genre: Classical
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Johanna Martzy (26 October 1924 – 13 August 1979) was a Hungarian violinist.
She was born in Timișoara, Romania in 1924 and debuted at 13. She toured in the 1940s and 1950s. After that decade her renown in North America, at least, declined and her death from cancer, in Glarus in 1979, was not well noted.
She was referred to by Glenn Gould in his essay “We who are about to be disqualified salute you,” as “an artist who has always seemed to me to be, at least in North America, the most underrated of the great violinists of our age.”
She won 1st prize at Geneva competition in 1947.[citation needed]
Among her chamber music recordings those of Schubert have been thought particularly special.
She was married to conductor Béla de Csillery during much of her period of renown in the 1940s and 1950s, but the marriage was dissolved in 1959.
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Johanna Martzy – Brahms & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos – Beethoven: Romances (2022)
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In 1954, then at the zenith of her career, Johanna Martzy was convinced by Walter Legge to leave Deutsche Grammophon for Columbia, preluding a short but fruitful collaboration. Her first recording session was made with Paul Kletzki, and dedicated to absolute masterpieces of the German romantic repertoire with concertos by Brahms and Mendelssohn. Martzy’s version of Beethoven’s Romances is on top of the discography.
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