Ivry Gitlis - The Best of Violin Melodies:
Playlist:
Ivry GITLIS, violin - Shigeo Neriki, piano (rec: 1985)
1. Antonio BAZZINI: La Ronde des Lutins, scherzo fantastique Op.25
2. Joachim RAFF: Cavatina Op.85 No.3
3. Felix MENDELSSOHN: Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, 'On Wings of Song' Op.34 No.2 (arr. Heifetz)
4. Jules MASSENET: Méditation de Thaïs (arr. M.P. Marsick)
5. Edward, Ede POLDINI: Poupée valsante, d'après l'Album 'Marionnettes' (arr. Kreisler)
6. Sergei RACHMANINOFF: Daisies, Marguerite Op.38 No.3 (arr. Kreisler)
7. Fritz KREISLER: The Londonderry Air 'Farewell to Cucullain' (old Irish melody)
8. Claude DEBUSSY: La fille aux cheveux de lin (arr. Arthur Hartmann)
9. Antonin DVORAK: Songs My Mother Taught Me Op.55 No.4, from Gypsy Songs (arr. Kreisler)
10. Fritz KREISLER: Schön Rosmarin (Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen, No.3)
11. Fritz KREISLER: Caprice Viennois Op.2
12. Grigoras DINICU: Hora Staccato (arr. Heifetz)
13. Henryk WIENIAWSKI: Capriccio-Valse Op.7
14. Edward ELGAR: Salut d'amour Op.12
15. Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse sentimentale, in F minor Op.51 No.6
16. Fritz KREISLER: Liebesfreud (Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen, No.1)
17. Ernest BLOCH: Nigun (Improvisation) No.2 from 'Baal Shem' (3 Pictures of Chassidic Life)
18. Antonin DVORAK: Humoresque in G flat major Op.101 No.7 (arr. Kreisler)
19. Niccolò PAGANINI: Cantabile in D major Op.17
20. Fritz KREISLER: Rondino on a Theme of Beethoven
(based on an unused theme by Beethoven, from the rejected final movement of a Wind Octet in E flat of 1793)
21. Maria Teresa von PARADIS: Sicilienne (arr. Samuel Dushkin)
22. Jean GABRIEL-MARIE: La Cinquantaine (1894)
23. Maurice RAVEL: Pièce en forme de Habañera
24. Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY: Mélodie in E flat major Op.42 No.3, from "Souvenir d'un lieu cher"
25. Fritz KREISLER: Liebesleid (Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen, No.2)
26. Pablo de SARASATE: Zigeunerweisen Op.20 (Gypsy Airs)
Ivry GITLIS Le violon enchanté (CD 1995)
Ivry GITLIS, violin - Shuku Iwasaki, piano
(rec: Japan XII.1994, I.1995)
Playlist:
1. Achille SIMONETTI (1857-1928): Madrigale in D major [1901]
2. Robert SCHUMANN: Romance in A major Op.94 No.2 (arr. Kreisler)
3. Fritz KREISLER: Menuet 'in the style of Porpora' [1910]
4. Fritz KREISLER: Marche Miniature Viennoise [1925]
5. Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante cantabile (from String Quartet No.1 in D major Op.11)
6. Fritz KREISLER: Chanson Louis XIII et Pavane 'in the style of Couperin' [1910]
7. François COUPERIN: Les Chérubins, Suite XX, No.3 (arr. A. Bachmann)
8. Georg Friederich HAENDEL: Violin Sonata in E major Op.1 No.15 HWV 373 (doubtful) -complete-
0:07 / I. Adagio [1'55'']
2:02 / II. Allegro [2'55'']
4:58 / III. Largo [1'28'']
6:27 / IV. Allegro [2'33'']
9. Gabriel FAURÉ: Après un rêve Op.7 No.1 (arr. A. Bachmann)
10. Gabriel FAURÉ: Berceuse Op.16
11. Cécile CHAMINADE: Sérénade espagnole (arr. Kreisler)
12. Zdeněk FIBICH: Poème Op.41 No.6 (arr. J. Kubelik / Gitlis)
13. Charles Gates DAWES: Melody in A major [1912] (arr. Kreisler)
14. Béla BARTÓK: 6 Danses populaires roumaines, Sz56, pour violon et piano (arr. Zoltan Székely) -complete-
0:07 / No.1 Dance with the stick (Jocul cu bâtâ) [1'19'']
1:26 / No.2 Brâul [0'35'']
2:01 / No.3 The heavy dancer (Pe Loc) [1'13'']
3:14 / No.4 Dance of the Butshum people (Buciumeana) [1'37'']
4:52 / No.5 Romanian polka (Poarga Româneascã) [0'28'']
5:20 / No.6 Fast dance (Manuntelul) [0'52'']
