Artist: Joseph Szigeti, Herbert Menges, Artur Balsam, Antal Doráti, Roy Bogas, Mieczysław Horszowski
Title: Joseph Szigeti – The Mercury Masters
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Eloquence
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 4:57:55
Total Size: 1.48 GB

Tracklist:

CD 1
01. I. Andante – Poco più animato
02. II. Scherzo. Allegro
03. III. Adagio mesto
04. IV. Finale. Allegro con brio
05. I. Allegro amabile
06. II. Andante tranquillo – Vivace – Andante – Vivace di più – Andante vivace
07. III. Allegretto grazioso. Quasi andante

CD 2
01. I. Allegro non troppo
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace – Poco più presto

CD 3
01. I. Andante assai
02. II. Allegro brusco
03. III. Andante
04. IV. Allegrissimo
05. I. Moderato
06. II. Presto
07. III. Andante
08. IV. Allegro con brio

CD 4
01. I. Allegro ma non troppo
02. II. Larghetto
03. III. Rondo. Allegro

CD 5
01. I. Andantino
02. II. Scherzo. Vivacissimo
03. III. Moderato
04. I. Cantilène
05. II. Eglogue I
06. III. Eglogue II
07. IV. Gigue
08. V. Dithyrambe

CD 6
01. I. Andante sostenuto
02. II. Presto
03. III. Adagio – quasi allegro
04. No. 1, Sehr langsam
05. No. 2, Rasch
06. No. 3, Sehr langsam
07. No. 4, Bewegt
08. I. Allegro vivo
09. II. Intermède. Fantasque et léger
10. III. Finale. Très animé
11. I. Allegro
12. II. Largo – Allegro
13. III. Allegro
14. I. Molto moderato
15. II. Allegretto

Romanticist and classicist, modernist and conservative, the violinist Joseph Szigeti defied classification.

His wide repertoire ranged from Bach to Bartk and beyond, and he played it all with skill and understanding, becoming known as ‘the thinking man’s virtuoso’. Issued internationally and complete, for the first time on CD in this Limited Edition original-jackets collection, these Mercury recordings were made in New York and London during the autumn of Szigeti’s career, between 1959 and 1961.

The original Mercury tapes have been given new high-definition transfers at Abbey Road Studios, and then remastered by Thomas Fine.