Ruggiero Ricci: The Glory Of Cremona – VINYL LP

Title: The Glory Of Cremona
Artist: Ruggiero Ricci
Label: Analogphonic
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 8808678161557
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2020-06-12
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: 180 GRAM VINYL

Audiophile 180g Virgin Vinyl LP!Mastered from the Original Masters of Universal Music!Pressed at Pallas!Violinist Ruggiero Ricci, accompanied by pianist Leon Pommers, performs compositional works by Vivaldi, Mozart, Brahms, Handel and more.Nobody who attended the session at which Ricci made this unusual recording is likely to forget the sight which greeted one on entering the studio: the long table, flanked by two pistol-packing Pinkerton detectives, bearing no fewer than fifteen of the world’s highest pedigreed violins… Ricci took up the violins one by one, planted his feet firmly on the yellow chalk marks sketched at the prescribed distance from the microphones, and played on each instrument a selection chosen to show it to best advantage. It was a fascinating parade of pieces that are fiddle music par excellence, and Ricci’s masculine, unmincing approach suited most of them very well indeed.

Tracks:
1.1 Intrada (Desplanes)
1.2 Larghetto (Nardini)
1.3 Praeludium (Vivaldi)
1.4 Cantabile and Waltz (Paganini)
1.5 Adagio (Mozart)
1.6 Improvisation, Op. 21, No.1 (Kabalevsky)
1.7 Melodie Op. 42, No. 3 (Tchaikovsky)
1.8 Largo (Veracini)
1.9 Sicilienne (Paradies)
1.10 The Violin Maker of Cremona (Hubay)
1.11 Larghetto (Handel)
1.12 Romance in a Major (Schumann)
1.13 Hungarian Dance No. 20 (Brahms)
1.14 Hungarian Dance No. 17 (Brahms)
1.15 May Breeze (Song Without Words, Op. 62, No. 1) (Mendelssohn)