The Kreisler Album

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Years of encores have guaranteed the cult longevity of Kreisler's music – certainly among violinists. Kreisler's disc consists of his own pieces and a large number of arrangements.
Some of the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 5th Oct 2000
Catalogue No: 4444092
Label: Decca
Length: 62 minutes

Kreisler: Praeludium & Allegro "by Gaetano Pugnani"

Work length5:45

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-04
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Schön Rosmarin, Old Viennese Dance No. 3

Work length1:58

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-07
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Tambourin Chinois, Op. 3

Work length3:34

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-04
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Caprice Viennois, Op. 2

Work length4:35

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-07
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: La Précieuse "by Louis Couperin"

Work length3:10

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-07
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Liebesfreud, Old Viennese Dance No. 1

Work length3:46

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-07
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Liebesleid, Old Viennese Dance No. 2

Work length3:41

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-07
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: La Gitana

Work length3:15

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-04
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Berceuse Romantique, Op. 9

Work length4:30

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-07
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Polichinelle, serenade

Work length1:41

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-07
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven

Work length2:44

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-04
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Tempo di minuetto "by Gaetano Pugnani"

Work length3:41

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-04
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Toy Soldiers' March

Work length1:49

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-07
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Allegretto "by Luigi Boccherini"

Work length2:59

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-04
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Marche miniature viennoise

Work length3:11

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-04
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Aucassin and Nicolette, Medieval Canzonetta

Work length2:23

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-07
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Menuet "by Niccolo Porpora"

Work length3:07

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-04
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Sicilienne & Rigaudon "by François Francoeur"

Work length3:56

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-04
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

Kreisler: Syncopation

Work length1:52

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Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano)
Recorded: 1995-04
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol

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2010

Years of encores have guaranteed the cult longevity of Kreisler's music – certainly among violinists. Kreisler's disc consists of his own pieces and a large number of arrangements.
Some of the latter are pretty feeble musically, yet the great violinist's unique artistry and magical tone-quality shine through. Sometimes he doesn't land right in the middle of a note, but always plays with the timing and phrasing of a great singer. Nothing is routine or set in his playing, which has a continual feeling of discovery and freshness. The transfers are excellent.
Joshua Bell learned Kreisler from his teacher, the late Josef Gingold, yet his approach is anything but 'old school'. He habitually avoids the pitfalls of imitation, flashiness and patronising overkill, preferring instead to revisit the music with modern ears. His Caprice viennois is lightyears removed from the composer's own, a fresh-faced, strongly characterised reading that trades sentimentality for just a hint of jazz. And there's that inseparable twosome, Liebesfreud and Liebesleid, the latter displaying Bell's tone at its most alluring. The longest piece here is the Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani which he gives the full treatment, deftly pointing the Allegro, relishing passagework and double- stopping with impressive accuracy. Some pieces seem indivisible from Kreisler's own very individual tone and phrasing, Polichinelle, for example, and Marche miniature viennoise, both of which paraded the sort of personalised rubato, timing and tone-production that have for so long seemed part of the music's very essence.
Bell's smooth, witty and keenly inflected readings make for elevated entertainment: they may not replace the composer's own, but they do provide a youthful and in many ways illuminating alternative. The recordings are excellent, but Coker's fine accompaniments occasionally seem overprominent.

The Kreisler Album

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