Johanna Martzy plays Violin Concertos & Sonatas

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Profil
Release Date
January 6, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Antonin Dvorak, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, F
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Rias-Symphonieorchester Berlin, Philharmonia Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Johanna Martzy, Kammerorchester Des Bayerisc
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 06, 2023
    • UPC
      881488220803
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PH22080
    • LABEL
      Profil
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      6
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

      Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay

    2. II. Adagio ma non troppo

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

      Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay

    3. III. Finale: Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

      Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay

    4. I. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

      Conductor: Paul Kletzki

    5. II. Adagio

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

      Conductor: Paul Kletzki

    6. III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

      Conductor: Paul Kletzki

    7. I. Allegro

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

      Conductor: Eugen Jochum

    8. II. Andante cantabile

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

      Conductor: Eugen Jochum

    9. III. Rondo: Andante grazioso

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

      Conductor: Eugen Jochum

    10. I. Allegro

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    11. II. Andante

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    12. III. Rondo: Allegretto grazioso

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    13. Fantasy in C Major, Op. 159, D. 934

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    14. I. Allegro molto appassionato -

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

      Conductor: Paul Kletzki

    15. II. Andante

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

      Conductor: Paul Kletzki

    16. III. Allegro molto vivace

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

      Conductor: Paul Kletzki

    17. I. Allegro assai

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    18. II. Tempo di minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    19. III. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    20. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    21. II. Scherzo: Presto

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    22. III. Andantino

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    23. IV. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    24. I. Allegro molto

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    25. II. Andante

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    26. III. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    27. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    28. II. Andante

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    29. III. Menuetto: Allegro

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    30. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    31. I. Allegro giusto

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    32. II. Andante

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    33. III. Menuetto

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    34. IV. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    35. Rondo in B Minor, Op. 70, D. 895, "Rondo brillant"

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Johanna Martzy, Jean Antonietti

    36. I. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    37. II. Fugue: Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    38. III. Siciliana

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    39. IV. Presto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    40. I. Allemanda

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    41. II. Double

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    42. III. Corrente

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    43. IV. Double. Presto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    44. V. Sarabanda

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    45. VI. Double

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    46. VII. Tempo di Bourree

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    47. VIII. Double

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    48. I. Grave

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    49. II. Fuga

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    50. III. Andante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    51. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    52. I. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    53. II. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    54. III. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    55. IV. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    56. V. Ciaccona

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    57. I. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    58. II. Fugue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    59. III. Largo

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    60. IV. Allegro assai

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    61. I. Preludio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    62. II. Loure

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    63. III. Gavotte en rondeau

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    64. IV. Menuett I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    65. VI. Bourrée

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy

    66. VII. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Johanna Martzy


The Hungarian violinist Johanna Martzy was born in Temesvár, then in Hungary, today in Romania, on October 26, 1924, and was hailed as a wunderkind. At the age of seven, she became the last pupil to be taken under the wing of the great violin teacher Jenö Hubay, who had enabled artists like Joseph Szigeti and Sándor Végh to fly high. Ferenc Gabriel continued the girl's training after Hubay's death, helping her to win first prize at the Hubay Competition when she was seventeen. She took up studies at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in Budapest the following year and made her orchestral debut with the Tchaikovsky Concerto under the baton of Willem Mengelberg a year later. When Nazi Germany occupied Hungary in 1944, Johanna Martzy and her husband Béla Szillery fled via Austria and France to Switzerland. There she won the Concours International d'Exécution Musicale in Geneva in 1947, and her international career gradually gained momentum. She began making gramophone records in 1950; Ferenc Fricsay's recording of the Dvorák concerto for Deutsche Grammophon of 1953 is notable for its rousing intensity and still enjoys benchmark status. In 1954 and 1955 EMI's legendary record producer Walter Legge made the recording of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin presented here.

In spite of a successful concert comeback in the 1960s, she was no longer in the top flight. It seems symbolical that it was in Budapest that she discovered she had hepatitis in 1969. Johanna Martzy steadily grew weaker and died in Switzerland on August 13, 1979, a year after the death of her husband. The present recordings remain a rare attestation of the brilliance of Johanna Martzy's playing, and it ensures her everlasting fame, at least among connoisseurs.

REVIEW:

The Hungarian violinist Johanna Martzy, who died in Zurich in 1979 at the age of only 54, experienced a short, steep international career at the beginning of the 1950s. She has remained an icon for insiders to this day and is considered the last great representative of the Hungarian violin school.

Profil has now refreshed the majority of their EMI recordings plus two Yellow Label concertos produced in 1952 and 1953 by Mozart (KV 218) under Jochum and the legendary Dvořák concerto under Fricsay and packed them into a 6-CD box set. The EMI bundle includes the two concertos by Brahms (1954) and Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1955) recorded with Paul Kletzki, which are still among the most expressive interpretations of the entire discography, as well as Schubert's (almost) complete works for violin and piano, and then also her legendary Abbey Road recordings of Bach's solo sonatas and partitas.

Martzy embodies the romantic Bach conception of the time, which aims for intensity, expressiveness, and flowing legato, and an aesthetic that wants to overwhelm the listener with beauty and dramatic stringency. At the same time, on her full-bodied, almost viola-like sonorous Bergonzi violin from 1733, she ignites such an inner fervor and draws such arcs of suspense that one cannot evade her infinitely spun, plastic lines. Every single tone is suggestively shaped and part of the flowing universe: drama and logic in one. And with the changing keys it also changes the respective basic color of its tone, i.e. from the darkened sonority of the D minor partita to the radiantly bright E major of the third partita. You can feel the objective and subjective power of this music at every moment: they are monologues of harrowing beauty.

Her interpretations of the concertos by Mozart, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Brahms and Dvořák, glowing with intensity, shine as flawlessly clean, full-bodied and sonorous and at the same time as inwardly lively, as passionately urgent and lyrically shaped - she practices a kind of musical perfection that everyone Leaving virtuosity behind, proclaimed as a means to penetrate to the true inner, to the glowing human message, to enchant and shake us with pure, flowing heart energy. It's no wonder that Johanna Martzy enjoys iconic status in professional circles and that the few original LPs that have survived are sold at top prices.

-- Rondo (Germany, Attila Csampai)