Gerhard Taschner violin recital Odeon 10"

$

788

I'm proud to present the rarest violin record ever! The holy grail of violin music! The recital by German virtuoso player Gerhard Taschner. "Gerhard Taschner spielt". Issued in the early 1950's.

He performs the following works:

(Pugnani - Kreisler): Präludium und Allegro
(Tartini - Kreisler): Variationen über ein Thema von Corelli
(Mussorgsky - S. Duskhin): Hopak
(de Falla - Kreisler): Spanischer Tanz aus "La Vida breva"
(Kreisler): Caprice Viennois
(Chaminade - Kreisler): Serenade Espagnole

Unbelievable playing from this maestro! Great dynamics!

Hubert Giesen and Martin Krause play pianos.

Born in Jagerndorf in 1922 his early training was fascinating – early studies with his grandfather were followed by two years with Hubay in Budapest (from 1930-32) and then time in Vienna with Huberman. He’d already given his debut in Prague in 1929 as a wunderkind seven year old playing a Mozart Concerto. In 1932 at the ripe old age of ten he gave a full-scale standard prodigy trio of Concertos assisted by a doubtless wary Felix Weingartner and the Vienna Symphony. Unusually peripatetic he went briefly to America to chance his arm but returned to Germany and thence to Brno where he took a position at the second desk in the Theatre Orchestra. Here, aged seventeen, he was heard by Herman Abendroth who was duly impressed and later on by Furtwängler who encouraged him to stay in Berlin. During the War it was Taschner who along with Siegfried Borries (the Philharmonic’s previous leader) and Erich Rohn provided the leader-soloists to promote the concerto literature – supporting such acknowledged stars as Georg Kulenkampff. Taschner had some significant successes during these years, not least in the dedication of Fortner’s Concerto but in later years he turned more to teaching, chamber music and jury serving. He formed duos with Gieseking and Edith Fernadi and was a member of the Taschner-Hoelscher-Gieseking trio. He died prematurely in 1976 at the age of fifty-four.

Label: Odeon OLA 1006. Dark blue/gold label. The vinyl of this incredible rare German 10" LP is vg to vg+. Record has several surfacemarks that play with some incidental soft pops and some light background noise. The beginning of side two has some hiss for about fifteen seconds. No skips! Flipback cover has some marks (vg+). Extremely rare in any condition. Offered only once before!

Essential item for any serious collector of chamber music!!!

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