Kreisler: The Complete Recordings Volume 3
Recorded 1914-1916
Fritz Kreisler (violin), with Efrem Zimbalist (violin)
Kreisler: The Complete Recordings Volume 3
Recorded 1914-1916
Fritz Kreisler (violin), with Efrem Zimbalist (violin)
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For the main work on this album of American recordings made at the time of the Great War, Bach’s Double Concerto in D minor (slightly abridged to fit on three 78rpm sides, Kreisler is joined by the Russian violinist Efrem Zimbalist. The Appendix features three tracks with soprano Geraldine Farrar and the only surviving recording of Kreisler-as-pianist, playing Dvorak’s Humoresque.
Producer and Audio Restoration Producer: Ward Marston
Contents and tracklist
Kreisler:
Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40, Act I: Ombra mai fu, "Largo" (arr. F. Kreisler for violin and piano)
Work length4:08
- Fritz Kreisler, Carl Lamson
- Recorded: 19 January 1914
- Recording Venue: New York City
- Fritz Kreisler, Carl Lamson
- Recorded: 19 January 1914
- Recording Venue: New York City
Kreisler:
Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words), Book 5, Op. 62: No. 1 in G major (arr. F. Kreisler for violin and piano)
Work length2:03
- Fritz Kreisler, Carl Lamson
- Recorded: 19 January 1914
- Recording Venue: New York City
Kreisler:
Gott, erhalte Franz den Kaiser!, Hob.XXVIa:43 (arr. F. Kreisler for violin and piano)
Work length2:05
- Fritz Kreisler
- Recorded: 19 January 1914
- Recording Venue: New York City
Kreisler:
Violin Sonatina in G major, Op. 100, B. 183: II. Larghetto, "Indian Lament" (arr. F. Kreisler for violin and piano)
Work length4:11
- Fritz Kreisler, Vincent O'Brien
- Recorded: 31 March 1914
- Recording Venue: New York City
- Fritz Kreisler, Efrem Zimbalist Sr., Howard Rattay, Pasquale Bianculli, J. Fruncillo, Rosario Bourdon
- Walter B. Rogers
- Recorded: 4 January 1915
- Recording Venue: Camden, New Jersey, USA
- Fritz Kreisler, Carl Lamson
- Recorded: 25 February 1915
- Recording Venue: New York City
Mendelssohn:
Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words), Book 5, Op. 62: No. 1 in G major (arr. F. Kreisler for violin and piano)
Work length2:19
- Fritz Kreisler, Carl Lamson
- Recorded: 25 February 1915
- Recording Venue: New York City
Haydn:
Gott, erhalte Franz den Kaiser!, Hob.XXVIa:43 (arr. F. Kreisler for violin and piano)
Work length2:14
- Fritz Kreisler, Carl Lamson
- Recorded: 25 February 1915
- Recording Venue: New York City
Kreisler:
Slavonic Dance in G minor (arr. F. Kreisler from Op. 46, No. 2 and Op. 72, No. 1 for violin and piano)
Work length2:44
- Fritz Kreisler, Carl Lamson
- Recorded: 25 February 1915
- Recording Venue: New York City
- Fritz Kreisler, Carl Lamson
- Recorded: 25 February 1915
- Recording Venue: New York City
- Fritz Kreisler, Carl Lamson
- Recorded: 22 April 1915
- Recording Venue: New York City
Kreisler:
Chanson serenade espagnole, Op. 150 (arr. F. Kreisler for violin and piano)
Work length2:02
- Fritz Kreisler, Carl Lamson
- Recorded: 22 April 1915
- Recording Venue: New York City
- Fritz Kreisler, Carl Lamson
- Recorded: 22 April 1915
- Recording Venue: New York City
Kreisler:
Mazurka No. 45 in A minor, Op. 67, No. 4 (arr. F. Kreisler for violin and piano)
Work length2:23
- Fritz Kreisler, Carl Lamson
- Recorded: 23 April 1915
- Recording Venue: New York City