Albert Sammons: Selected Performances

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Albert Sammons (1886-1957) Selected Performances (playlist)


Track Listing
Sammons in middle age
Sammons in middle age (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
1. Albert Sammons - Bruch Violin Concerto 1
Recorded April 9, 1925 - Sir Hamilton Harty, conductor
Vorspiel: Allegro moderato
Adagio
Finale: Allegro energico

2. Albert Sammons & Lionel Tertis - Handel Halvorsen: Passacaglia for Violin & Viola

4-6. Grieg Violin Sonata # 2, Op. 13
Recorded March 12, 1925 - William Murdoch, piano

7. Violinist Albert Sammons and pianist Gerald Moore play "From the Canebrake" by Samuel Gardner and "Estrellita" by Manuel Ponce, the latter arranged by Jascha Heifetz. The difference is that instead of playing it as Heifetz arranged it in the key of F#, Sammons plays it in F.

8-10. Elgar Violin Concerto
Recorded: 18 March / 10 April 1929
New Queen's Hall Orchestra conducted by Sir Henry Wood

11. Mozart String Quintet, K.516 (entire) - London String Quartet & Hobday, viola

I. Allegro
II. Menuetto: Allegretto
III. Adagio ma non troppo
IV. Adagio - Allegro

Recorded: between 1915-17
Members:
1st: Violin: Albert Sammons
2nd Violin: Thomas Petre
1st Viola: Waldo Warner
2nd Viola : Alfred Hobday
Cello: C. Warwick-Evans


12. Schubert Sonatina, Op. 137 #1 (Entire)
1. Allegro molto
2. Andante
3. Allegro vivace

Albert Sammons, violin
William Murdoch, piano