Joseph Szigeti plays Tartini, Prokofiev & Beethoven
Joseph Szigeti (violin), Arthur Balsam (piano)
Orchestre de Radio-Canada, Wilfrid Pelletier
The Art of Joseph Szigeti offers four televised performances preserved by Radio Canada, gathered for the first time on one DVD. Notice… how subtly he varies the repeated phrases in the Tartini...
Joseph Szigeti plays Tartini, Prokofiev & Beethoven
Joseph Szigeti (violin), Arthur Balsam (piano)
Orchestre de Radio-Canada, Wilfrid Pelletier
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The Art of Joseph Szigeti offers four televised performances preserved by Radio Canada, gathered for the first time on one DVD. Notice… how subtly he varies the repeated phrases in the Tartini...
About
Joseph Szigeti's reputation was particularly exalted among his fellow violinists. Eschewing virtuosity for the sake of virtuosity, Szigeti was always completely at the service of the music. Szigeti visited CBC's Montreal studios on three separate occasions and those performances are gathered on this DVD release. Though Szigeti was already in his 60s when these performances were filmed, the qualities in his playing so cherished by his admirers are readily apparent.
Format: Black & White, Classical, DVD, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Video Artists International
DVD Release Date: March 30, 2004
Running Time: 72 minutes
Contents and tracklist
- Arthur Balsam (piano), Joseph Szigeti (violin)
- Joseph Szigeti (violin)
- Orchestre de Radio-Canada
- Wilfrid Pelletier
- Joseph Szigeti (violin)
- Orchestre de Radio-Canada
- Wilfrid Pelletier
- Joseph Szigeti (violin)
- Orchestre de Radio-Canada
- Wilfrid Pelletier
Awards and reviews
September 2004
The Art of Joseph Szigeti offers four televised performances preserved by Radio Canada, gathered for the first time on one DVD. Notice… how subtly he varies the repeated phrases in the Tartini D minor Concerto, and imbues the slow movement with enlivening accents... in Beethoven's Concerto he phrases the triplet figurations which dominate the first movement in steady arcs whose accents defy the bar-lines on a thousand levels.
