Recordings from 1940s-1960s (2cd)

Archive recordings from the 1940s–1960s. Released on May 7th, 2020, marking the 90th anniversary of the great violinist.

CD 1
Camille Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op 15
Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto, Op 77
Jean Sibelius Serenade No 1 in D major

CD 2
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst Fantaisie brillante on Rossini’s Otello, Op 11
Jean Sibelius Suite, Op 46 No 2 Mélisande
Jean Sibelius Romance No 2, Op 78
Ernest Bloch Baal Shem Suite, B 47 No 2 Nigun
George Gershwin / arranged by Jascha Heifetz Preludes No 2 in C-sharp minor and No 1 in B-flat major
Sergei Rachmaninoff Romance, Op 6 No 1
Pancho Vladigerov Bulgarian Rhapsody Vardar, Op 16
Frédéric Chopin / arranged by Leopold Auer Nocturne in E-minor, Op 72 No 1
Béla Bartók Romanian Folk Dances, Sz 56
Karol Szymanowski Nocturne and Tarantella, Op 28
Igor Stravinski Petrushka. Russian Dance (live recording)

Igor Bezrodny, violin; Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra* (CD1); Kirill Kondrashin, conductor (CD1); pianists Abram Makarov (CD2, #1–7, 9, 11),
Vladimir Yampolsky (CD2, #8, 10) and Vsevolod Petrushansky (CD2, #12)