Love Is Like A Violin - Salon Treasures from the Max Jaffa Library

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Label
Nimbus
Release Date
July 15, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • PERFORMER
      Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 15, 2022
    • UPC
      0710357642821
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      NI6428
    • LABEL
      Nimbus
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Mon coeur est un violon (Love Is Like A Violin) (arr. B. Tattenhall foir violin and piano)

      Composer: Miarka Laparcerie

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    2. Valsette (arr. G. Powell for violin and piano)

      Composer: Rene Costy

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    3. Jura-jura

      Composer: Korda-Bakony

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    4. Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (arr. J. Byfield for violin and piano)

      Composer: Stephen C. Foster

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    5. The Violin Is a Lady

      Composer: Frederic Curzon

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    6. Serenade No. 1 in A Major

      Composer: František Drdla

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    7. Fascination (arr. A. Sandler for violin and piano)

      Composer: Fermo D. Marchetti

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    8. The Broken Melody (arr. for violin and piano)

      Composer: Auguste van Biene

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    9. Dobra dobra

      Composer: Max Skalka

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    10. Old Folks at Home (arr. J. Byfield for violin and piano)

      Composer: Stephen C. Foster

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    11. Serenade in A Major, Op. 7 (arr. for violin and piano)

      Composer: Gabriel Pierné

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    12. A la valse

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    13. Estrellita (arr. J. Heifetz for violin and piano)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    14. Canto amoroso (arr. M. Elman for violin and piano)

      Composer: Giuseppe Sammartini

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    15. Gypsy Carnival

      Composer: Yascha Krein

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    16. The Voice of the Violin

      Composer: John Dyer

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    17. Canzonetta No. 1, Op. 6

      Composer: Alfredo D'Ambrosio

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    18. Si mes vers avaient des ailes (arr. for violin and piano)

      Composer: Reynaldo Hahn

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    19. Scénes de la Csárda, No. 4, Op. 32, "Hejre Kati" (Hey, Katie)

      Composer: Jenö Hubay

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    20. The Magic Bow: Romance (arr. J. Byfield for violin and piano)

      Composer: Philip Green

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    21. Addio Firenze

      Composer: Michael Spivakowsky

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    22. Spitzbub

      Composer: Josef Rixner

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    23. Orphée et Eurydice, Act II: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, "Mélodie" (arr. F. Kreisler for violin and piano)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    24. Dream Idyll

      Composer: Albert William Ketèlbey

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis

    25. Londonderry Air (arr. J. Byfield for violin and piano)

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis


Simon Blendis writes: “Max Jaffa (1911-1991) was the pre-eminent light music violinist of his generation, a universally popular figure with a career spanning seventy years, famous as leader of the Palm Court Orchestra and of his trio, and a household favorite through his regular radio broadcasts. Since 2000 I have been playing on a wonderful Peter Guarnerius violin that previously belonged to him. About three years ago I was offered his sheet music library by his family (whom I’d got to know well in the intervening years), reuniting it with the violin, and during the first Coronavirus lockdown in 2020 my wife, Saoko, and I combed through the violin and piano pieces, discovering and performing in online concerts a huge number of gorgeous salon pieces, some well-known but many forgotten or undiscovered.”