Ivry Gitlis: The Early Years, Birth of a Legend

Release Date: 2nd Aug 2019
Catalogue No: RH011
Label: Rhine Classics

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Hindemith: Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 31 No. 2 'Es ist so schönes Wetter draussen...'

rec. 21 September 1949
Ivry Gitlis (violin)

Szymanowski: La Fontaine de Aréthuse

rec. 21 September 1949
Ivry Gitlis (violin)

Bloch, E: Nigun (Baal Shem No. 2)

rec. 21 September 1949
Maurice Perrin (piano), Ivry Gitlis (violin)

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35: II. Canzonetta

rec. 23-30 June 1951
Odette Pigault (piano), Ivry Gitlis (violin)

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35: III. Allegro vivacissimo

fragment, rec. 23-30 June 1951
Odette Pigault (piano), Ivry Gitlis (violin)

Bartók: Sonata for Solo Violin, BB 124, Sz. 117

rec. 8 December 1951
Ivry Gitlis (violin)

Chausson: Poème for Violin & Piano, Op. 25

rec. 13 March 1953
Odette Pigault (piano), Ivry Gitlis (violin)

Moszkowski: Guitare, Op. 45. No. 2

rec. 13 March 1953
Odette Pigault (piano), Ivry Gitlis (violin)

Achron, J: Hebrew Melody, Op. 33

rec. 25 March 1953
Ivry Gitlis (violin)

Bloch, E: Nigun (Baal Shem No. 2)

rec. 25 March 1953
Ivry Gitlis (violin)

Tartini: Violin Sonata in G minor 'Devil's Trill'

rec. 18 February 1955
Antonio Beltrami (piano), Ivry Gitlis (violin)

Wieniawski: Capriccio Valse in E major, Op. 7

rec. 18 February 1955
Antonio Beltrami (piano), Ivry Gitlis (violin)

Wieniawski: Polonaise brilliante No. 1 in D major, Op. 4

rec. 18 February 1955
Antonio Beltrami (piano), Ivry Gitlis (violin)

Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004: Chaconne

rec. 1 July 1963
Ivry Gitlis (violin)

Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108

rec. 2 July 1963
Florencia Raitzin (piano), Ivry Gitlis (violin)

Bartók: Sonata for Solo Violin, BB 124, Sz. 117

rec. 13 July 1963
Ivry Gitlis (violin)

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<p>Early recordings, dated 1949-1963, by the great violinist Ivry Gitlis, including works by Bloch, Hindemith, Bartok, Tchaikovsky Bach, Tartini and Brahms. <p>Yitzhak-Meir (Isaac) Gitlis was born in Haifa, Palestine Mandate to Jewish parents, who emigrated in 1921 from Kamianets-Podilskyi, Russia, now Ukraine. In 1951, as suggested by his teacher Alice Pashkus, Gitlis participated in the Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris, where he took fifth place (CD1). During the preliminary stages of the competition, a rumour circulated that he had stolen a Stradivarius violin during the war, which caused a scandal on the day of the final. Six years after the fall of Hitler, being a Jew in France was still causing debate. In 1963, he was the first Israeli violinist to play in the Soviet Union. He gave a series of concerts under the cultural exchange program of the Soviet Union and Israel, starting in Vilnius (23 October 1963). His other concerts were given in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and Odessa. In the same year, invited by Giancarlo Menotti, he played in Italy at Spoleto's "6th Festival dei Due Mondi".

Ivry Gitlis: The Early Years, Birth of a Legend

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