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American virtuoso (2-CD)
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Paganini
$19.99CDRhine Classics
Apr 17, 2026RH 032 -
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V4: ART OF VIOLIN
DISCOVERED TAPES - MOZART
V3: THE ART OF VIOLIN
DISCOVERED TAPES - CONCERTOS
Art Of Violin
DISCOVERED TAPES - SHOWPIECES
DISCOVERED TAPES - SONATAS
American virtuoso (2-CD)
Ivry Gitlis: The Early Years, Birth of a Legend
Yitzhak-Meir (Isaac) Gitlis was born in Haifa, Palestine Mandate to Jewish parents, who emigrated in 1921 from Kamianets-Podilskyi, Russia, now Ukraine. In 1951, as suggested by his teacher Alice Pashkus, Gitlis participated in the Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris, where he took fifth place. During the preliminary stages of the competition a rumor circulated that he had stolen a Stradivarius violin during the war, which caused a scandal on the day of the final. Six years after the fall of Hitler, being a Jew in France was still causing debate. In 1963, he was the first Israeli violinist to play in the Soviet Union. He gave a series of concerts under the cultural exchange program of the Soviet Union and Israel, starting in Vilnius. His other concerts were given in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and Odessa. In the same year, invited by Giancarlo Menotti, he played in Italy at Spoleto’s “6th Festival dei Due Mondi.” This release features early recordings from Gitlis, dated between 1949 and 1963.
Art Of Violin 2 / Various (Box) (Uk)
Rachmaninoff: Complete Solo Piano Works / Fiorentino
Recorded live in September 1987, this release features Fiorentino’s legendary complete survey of Rachmaninov’s solo piano works. “…an utterly mindblowing release of the complete Rachmaninoff solo piano music by Italian master pianist Sergio Fiorentino, to whom the piano world owes a huge debt of gratitude for coaxing the master out of retirement and ensuring that his last decade of concerts was recorded. In this set, we find in absolutely stunning sound quality Fiorentino’s masterful traversals of Rachmaninoff’s solo works, the golden sheen of his sound and refinement of his nuancing as captivating as his passionate and intelligent interpretations.” (The Piano Files)
REDISCOVERED
Busoni & Liszt: Discovered Tapes / Scarpini
This new, exciting release will allow listeners to rediscover a great and too often forgotten pianist- Pietro Scarpini. “This set will appeal especially to aficionado’s of great pianism and will be of added value in enhancing Scarpini’s scant discography. The albums are complemented with a beautifully illustrated booklet. Rhine Classics have carefully restored and remastered these valuable aural documents in 24bit 96KHz sound.” (MusicWeb UK) “Piano-wise Rhine Classics has given us a stimulating six-album set of Pietro Scarpini playing Busoni and Liszt [...] all played with intelligence and the odd tell-tale flashback to old-world performing gestures.” (Gramophone UK)
The Beauty & The Bow (8-CD set)
The complete Saga album collection (10-CD set)
Paganini
Henryk Szeryng - Rediscovered
After the premiere recording of Reynaldo Hahn's concerto (released by RH-022), this is another premiere recording by Szeryng: Benjamin Lees's violin concerto. This 2CD set also includes: Brahms violin concerto with Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bach and Szymanowski violin concerto with Ernest Ansermet, Bartok violin concerto with Ernest Ansermet: all never before published recordings.
In Memoriam - Live (4-CD set)
Early Live & Unissued Takes / Sergio FIorentino
Sergio Fiorentino (1927-1998) exceptionally detested any superficial gestures and facial expressions when sitting at his instrument. In that respect and in his general view on making music he was true to pianists like Rachmaninov and Moiseiwitsch. The utmost technical difficulties were executed by his hands, and he showed neither strain nor superfluous movements, also never compromising in tempo. His hands always close to the keys, he exerted wonders of clear articulation and full piano tone. Never did he sacrifice the music to show off his tremendous technical endowments. Rhine Classics' collection will comprehensively represent all the significant "non-commercial" recordings left by Fiorentino (from Master's Private Archive), in top-quality remastered sound.
The Legendary New York Concerts / Jascha Heifetz
Two of Heifetz's most important concerts in his career, never released before: Korngold's violin concert first broadcasting and Heifetz and Piatigorsky's last concert at Carnegie Hall.
Henryk Szeryng: Live in USA
Gary Lemco writes: “My own beguilement with Szeryng came with his performance in 1987 Atlanta with Louis Lane, of the North American premiere of the 1927 Concerto by Reynaldo Hahn, the French master of the Belle Epoch. “Ah, yes”, asserts Szeryng, “Reynaldo Hahn, the most Parisian of all Parisians, even though he was born in Caracas of German parents. There is even a street in Caracas named for him. I remember meeting him; and even though he was trained as a pianist, he had a natural sense of the violin. Some favor his Violin Sonata. The Concerto is published, but for some reason nobody plays it. The first movement for me is the best and most compact and makes a natural display piece. The second movement is based on a song from Tunis — absolutely genuine— and the finale sings in a typical operetta style. It starts like an extension of the second movement and has tremendous wit and charm. And, to be sure, it is a challenge.”
REVIEW:
Szeryng was a class act. His tone pure yet full-bodied, his phrasing the product of a rounded and cultivated mind.
-- Gramophone (Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month, December 2021)
Brahms, Mozart, Berg et al: a la memoire d’un ange - Christian Ferras In Memoriam
All recordings are first published here, including two most important ones: Ferras's first concert in the USA (playing Brahms' violin concerto with Charles Munch in Boston) and Ferras playing Mozart's violin concerto No. 3 for Pope John XXIII in 1963, one of the most powerful experiences of Ferras' life.
Bach: Violin Concertos / Ivry Gitlis
After 9CD in memoriam "inédits et introuvables" (RH-019), this is another treasure recording of Ivry Gitlis. From the never published studio recording in Denmark. With Natalia Likhopoi (Great Russian violinist Viktor Tretiakov's wife), Gitlis plays Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor.
