Although his formal training ended at age 12, Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) was an international star around the turn of the last century. His vibrato-heavy but animated, nimble style would have been immediately recognizable to those among our great-grandparents who loved concert music, and he wrote a great deal of music for his own use. This disc showcases his skills at arranging music by other composers for violin and piano, and along the way it reminds us how, for all the large-scale musical architecture involved, the music ...
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Although his formal training ended at age 12, Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) was an international star around the turn of the last century. His vibrato-heavy but animated, nimble style would have been immediately recognizable to those among our great-grandparents who loved concert music, and he wrote a great deal of music for his own use. This disc showcases his skills at arranging music by other composers for violin and piano, and along the way it reminds us how, for all the large-scale musical architecture involved, the music of the post-Romantics was often about a search for the perfect tune. All the music here is based on pieces by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, and Dvorák -- a limited focus, but one that displays some gems. Kreisler's knitting of themes from various Dvorák works into a Slavonic Fantasy is adept, and his shaping of the allegedly African-American English horn theme from the slow movement of the New World Symphony is expertly lifted out of its surrounding web and transformed into an...
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Very good. Includes disc(s), case, booklet, and back artwork. May show slight wear. Disc(s) are professionally cleaned and may contain only light scratches that do not effect functionality.
