Ivry Gitlis performs the Hindemith Violin Concerto
Published:
COMPOSERS: Bela Bartók,Haubenstock-Ramati,Johannes Brahms,Niccolò Paganini,Paul Hindemith
LABELS: SWR Music
ALBUM TITLE: Ivory Gitlis
WORKS: Works by Paganini, Hindemith, Bartók, Haubenstock-Ramati, Brahms etc.
PERFORMER: Ivry Gitlis (violin); various orchestras and conductors
CATALOGUE NO: SWR Music SWR 19005 CD (1962-86)
This collection – the earliest recording a radiant account of the Hindemith Concerto – captures Gitlis’s unique brand of molten virtuosity from the interpretatively noble to the elusively impulsive.
Julian Haylock
Authors
Julian Haylock is the former editor of CD Review and International Piano Magazines and reviews of CD Classics Magazine. He is also the author of biographies on Mahler, Rachmaninov and Puccini, and co-author of the Haylock and Waugh pocket guides to Classical Music on CD and Opera Music on CD.