MAX ROSTAL Franz OSBORNE ROBIN ORR Sonatina for PIANO VIOLIN 1st Rec' DECCA 1112
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Description
A series of great instrumental performances: Classical Piano, Violin, String Quartets and Woodwinds:
Robin Orr
Sonatina for Violin and Piano (1941) [8:46]
Max Rostal (violin); Franz Osborn (piano)
Sonata for Viola and Piano (1947)
It is one of the great sadnesses of the UK’s musical culture that whilst it regularly remembers and celebrates the work of ‘foreign’ composers its own native born talent is often overlooked. How many of you have heard of Robin Orr and of those who have, did you realize that this (2009) is his centenary year. The exact date was in June and he was born in Brechin, Scotland.
Orr's the earliest recording and the earliest composition the ‘Sonatina for Violin and Piano’. The first movement is spiky and rhythmical with a prominent piano part. In the more lyrical and enigmatic movement two the violin dominates. In the much longer finale the players are partners both in contribution and in mood. It is difficult to fathom why this attractive and short work has not made it into the repertoire at least occasionally. The recording from 1948 has stood the course of time well and the re-mastering is excellent. The piano sound is however just a little recessed. Rostal and Osborn make a fine team. They worked together for many years and it was tragic that Osborn died so early - at the age of forty-nine - at the height of his fame.
12" 78 rpm record
Condition:
EXCELLENT close to pristine , plays very quiet faintest crackle
A SUPERB COPY
Max Rostal (7 July 1905 – 6 August 1991) was a violinist and a viola player. He was Austrian-born, but later took British citizenship.[1]
Max Rostal was born in Cieszyn[2] and studied with Carl Flesch. He also studied theory and composition with Emil Bohnke and Matyás Seiber.[3] He won the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1925.[4] From 1930–33 he taught at the Berlin Hochschule, from 1944 to 1958 at the Guildhall School of Music, and then at the Musikhochschule Köln (1957–82) and the Conservatory in Bern (1957–85). His pupils included Yfrah Neaman, Paulo Bosísio, Howard Leyton-Brown, Igor Ozim, Ole Bohn, Peggy Klinger, Paul Rozeck, Edith Peinemann, Bryan Fairfax and members of the Amadeus Quartet. He died in Bern.
Rostal played a wide variety of music, but was a particular champion of contemporary works such as Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2. He made a number of recordings.
Rostal premiered Alan Bush's Violin Concerto of 1946–8 in 1949.[5] He was the dedicatee of Benjamin Frankel's first solo violin sonata (1942),[6] and he also made the premiere recording.
Rostal played in a piano trio with Heinz Schröter (piano) and Gaspar Cassadó (cello), who was replaced in 1967 by Siegfried Palm.[7]
Rostal edited a number of works for Schott Music, and produced piano reductions as well.[8]
Rostal's daughter Sybil B. G. Eysenck became a psychologist and is the widow of the personality psychologist Hans Eysenck, with whom she collaborated.
Robert Kelmsley (Robin) Orr CBE (2 June 1909 – 9 April 2006) was a Scottish composer.[1]
Born in Brechin, and educated at Loretto School,[1] he studied at the Royal College of Music in London and at Pembroke College, Cambridge where he studied under Cyril Rootham. Following studies with Alfredo Casella and Nadia Boulanger he returned to Cambridge in 1938 as Organist of St John's College. During his war service Herbert Howells deputised for him. After World War II he became a lecturer at Cambridge and a professor at the Royal College of Music, then Gardiner Professor of Music at Glasgow University from 1956 to 1965. He was succeeded in this role in 1966 by Prof Fred Rimmer.[2]
He returned to Cambridge in 1965 as Professor of Music, a post he held until his retirement in 1976 (later Emeritus). He was made a CBE in 1972. He was not related to Buxton Orr (1924-1997) - also a Scottish composer.
His works include three operas: Full Circle (STV for Scottish Opera, 1968), Hermiston (Edinburgh Festival 1975) and On the Razzle (RSAMD 1988), three Symphonies, and the Sinfonietta Helvetica (1990), alongside church music and solo and chamber works.
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