The Perlman Sound

 
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The Perlman Sound
Itzhak Perlman

[ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD ]

Release Date: Friday 28 August 2015

31 August 2015 sees the seventieth birthday of Itzhak Perlman, the supreme violinist of his time, adored by audiences around the world and a musician whose powerful but sympathetic artistic personality provides a model for the players who have followed him. More than fifty years into his career, Perlman remains a very lively and influential figure on the world's music scene.

To celebrate Perlman's landmark birthday, in September 2015 Warner Classics is releasing Itzhak Perlman - The Complete Warner Recordings, a fifty-nine-album set which contains all the recordings he made for EMI Classics (his principal label) and also for Teldec - including some previously unreleased recordings.Alongside this luxurious release a 3CD Digipak compilation gathers the quintessence of Itzhak Perlman's fine art remastered in 24-bit/96kHz sound at Abbey Road Studios: The Perlman Sound!

No-one could deny that Itzhak Perlman holds a special place in the world of music - and no-one could define it more eloquently than his old friend and colleague, the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim: "It is quite impossible to imagine today's violin heritage without the absolute musical genius of Perlman." The most obvious manifestation of that genius is the famous Perlman Sound - lustrous, warm and generous. A sound that, in the flesh, really can fill a hall, its impact compounded by often astounding virtuosity; and yet - to coin a cliché far too lightly applied to musicians of extraordinary talent, skill and dedication - Perlman makes it all look so easy. In fact, he communicates a positive joy in his playing. As Edward Rothstein wrote most perceptively in a New York Times review of a recital at Manhattan's Avery Fisher Hall in 1982:
"Mr. Perlman can do just about anything he wants on the violin. But he is not the sort of virtuoso who reaches into a listener's guts, or who has the audience balancing with him on the sliver of contact between bow and string. Nor is he the master technician whose patter chills a listener with glistening perfection ... Instead of being a virtuoso in the 19th-century mold - a priest, demon, spokesman and ruler - Mr. Perlman might be called a sort of democratic virtuoso. His appeal is that he is one of us, a person who appears on stage and plays his music. And when he plays, one marvels at his execution, relishes his sound and experiences a sympathy for his musical expressions that involves empathy, respect and pleasure."

His recordings have received a total of 15 Grammy Awards and in 2008 he was honoured with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.Those recordings have helped to make the 'Perlman Sound' the gold standard to which many violinists of subsequent generations aspire.

Tracks:

CD 1

FELIX MENDELSSOHN 1809-1847
1 Violin Concerto No.2 in E minor, Op.64: I. Allegro molto appassionato 13.00
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Bernard Haitink

JOHANNES BRAHMS 1833-1897
2 Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.77: III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace 8.29
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Carlo Maria Giulini

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 1770-1827
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.61:
3 II Larghetto 9.27
4 III Rondo (Allegro) 10.42
Berliner Philharmoniker / Daniel Barenboim

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY 1840-1893
5 Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35: I Allegro moderato 19.16
Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy

ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD 1897-1957
6 Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35: II Romance (Andante) 8.10
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / André Previn

JEAN SIBELIUS 1865-1957
7 Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47: III Allegro ma non tanto 7.34
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / André Previn

CD 2

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 1685-1750
1 Violin Concerto No.1 in A minor, BWV 1041: I [Allegro] 4.12
English Chamber Orchestra / Daniel Barenboim
2 Violin Sonata No.1 in G minor, BWV 1001: I Adagio 4.27

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 1756-1791
3 Violin Concerto No.3 in G major, K. 216: III Rondeau 6.14
Berliner Philharmoniker / Itzhak Perlman (conducting)

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
4 Violin Partita No.3 in E major, BWV 1006: I Preludio 3.23

ANTONIO VIVALDI 1678-1741
5 The Four Seasons: Concerto in G minor, RV 315 "Summer"/"L'estate": III Presto 3.06
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Itzhak Perlman (conducting)

NICOLÒ PAGANINI 1782-1840
6 Caprice No.24, Op.1 4.29

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
7 Violin Sonata No.9 in A major "Kreutzer": III Finale (Presto) 8.00
Martha Argerich piano

FRITZ KREISLER 1875-1962
8 Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani 5.19
Samuel Sanders piano

JOHANNES BRAHMS
9 Violin Sonata No.3 in D minor, Op.108: III Un poco presto e con sentimento 2.51
Daniel Barenboim piano

ANTONÍN DVORÁK 1841-190
10 4 Romantic Pieces, Op.75: IV Larghetto 4.56
Samuel Sanders piano

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS 1835-1921
11 Introduction et Rondo capriccioso, Op.28 9.18
Orchestre de Paris / Jean Martinon

CLAUDE DEBUSSY 1862-1918
12 Petite suite: I En bateau (arr. Choisnel) 3.36
Samuel Sanders piano

HENRYK WIENIAWSKI 1835-1880
13 Scherzo-tarentelle in G minor, Op.16 4.32
Samuel Sanders piano

IGOR STRAVINSKY 1882-1971
14 Suite italienne: II Serenata 3.11
Bruno Canino piano

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH 1906-1975
15 3 Violin Duets: I Praeludium 2.20
Pinchas Zukerman violin / Samuel Sanders piano

PABLO DE SARASATE 1844-1908
16 Zigeunerweisen, Op.20 8.47
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / André Previn

CD 3

CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK 1714-1787
1 Dance of the blessed spirits from "Orfeo ed Euridice" (arr. Kreisler) 3.06
Samuel Sanders piano

MANUEL DE FALLA 1876-1946
2 La vida breve: Spanish Dance No.1 (arr. Kreisler) 3.18
Samuel Sanders piano

PABLO DE SARASATE
3 Carmen Fantasy, Op.25 11.41
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Lawrence Foster

SERGEI RACHMANINOV 1873-1943
4 Vocalise, Op.34 No.14 (arr. Press & Gingold) 4.58
Samuel Sanders piano

GEORGE GERSHWIN 1898-1937
5 Porgy and Bess : "It ain't necessarily so" (arr. Heifetz) 2.34
Samuel Sanders piano

SCOTT JOPLIN 1868-1917
6 The Entertainer (arr. Perlman) 4.09
André Previn piano

ANDRÉ PREVIN b. 1929
7 Who Reads Reviews? 4.16
André Previn piano · Jim Hall guitar · Shelly Manne drums · Red Mitchell bass

ANTONIO BAZZINI 1818-1897
8 La Ronde des lutins, scherzo fantastique, Op.25 4.43
Samuel Sanders piano

JULES MASSENET 1842-1912
9 Elégie (arr. Tunick) 3.03
Plácido Domingo tenor
New York Studio Orchestra / Jonathan Tunick
10 Méditation from "Thaïs" 4.45
Abbey Road Ensemble / Lawrence Foster

NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV 1844-1908
11 Flight of the Bumblebee (arr. Heifetz) 1.20
Samuel Sanders piano

ANTONÍN DVORÁK
12 Slavonic Dance Op.72 No.2 4.15
Samuel Sanders piano

EDWARD ELGAR 1857-1934
13 Salut d'amour, Op.12 2.47
Samuel Sanders piano

FRITZ KREISLER
14 Liebesleid 3.14
Samuel Sanders piano
15 Schön Rosmarin 1.55
Abbey Road Ensemble / Lawrence Foster

PABLO DE SARASATE
16 Zapateado, Op.23 3.16
Samuel Sanders piano

TRADITIONAL
17 A Yiddishe Mamme 6.50
Israel Zohar clarinet
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra / Dov Seltzer

KLEZMER
18 Bessarabia 6.59
Brave Old World