Tribute Volume 1, Live At The Tibor Varga Festival
The program is unreleased material from recordings Live at the Tibor Varga Festival 1973, Switzerland. This recording was previously unreleased. This album is an exact reproduction of the original master tape. Everything has been done in its manufacturing to offer you an exceptional sound quality.
Snitkovsky played the music of 20th-century classics also with huge enthusiasm: Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Bartok, Hindemith, Britten, Villa-Lobos – their innovative opuses, at this time not widely understood, he presented brightly and convincingly.
The music of the Soviet composers such as A. Khachaturian, D. Kabalevsky, M. Vainberg and V. Salmanov, also the newest and specially written for Snitkovsky pieces were included in his repertoire as well.
Snitkovsky performed with many great orchestras and famous conductors, such as Nathan Rakhlin, André Cluytens, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and Karel Ančerl. André Cluytens said once after performing with Snitkovsky, "It is a great pleasure to play with such an outstanding artist as Semyon Snitkovsky. I will always be happy to make music with this brilliant musician".
Snitkovsky regarded his teaching career with the same inspiration and devotion as his performing one. Snitkovsky brought new input to violin teaching, there were many serious musicians among his students. While a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, from 1976 he was also a professor of violin class at the Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. Snitkovsky taught many masterclasses and instructional courses in different countries with great success. Quoting one of the articles about his participation in the concerts and masterclasses in Tour (France): "Snitkovsky is not only an outstanding virtuoso but is a great teacher".
Soviet and foreign press excitingly praised him. There are short quotations from the hundreds of publications: "Soviet music" magazine notes his honourable style, excellent technique, beautiful sound and uniqueness of the phrasing. In 1977 after Snitkovsky triumphantly performed in Zurich, German newspaper "Tages Anzeiger" stated that Snitkovsky is one of the greatest violin players of his generation, calling his performance of excerpts from Stravinsky’s "Petrushka" "the fireworks of violin virtuosity that impresses with almost inhuman perfection". "Le Figaro" called Snitkovsky’s Parisian concerts an "eye-opener".
You can pre-order your copy today. Extremely Limited Quantities.
Album: Semyon Isaevich Snitkovsky - Tribute Volume I
Label: Triston Masters - TMR-SE 0004
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Switzerland
Released: 2021
Genre: Classical
Style: Romantic, Neo-Romantic
Tracklist:
Side A:
Violin Sonata No 2 In G Major Op 13
Composed By – Edvard Grieg
(19:43)
A1 Lento Doloroso - Allegro Vivace
A2 Allegretto Tranquillo
A3 Allegro Animato
Side B:
Violin Sonata In G Minor Op 1
Composed By – Karen Khachaturian
(17:50)
B1 Allegro
B2 Andante
B3 Presto
Gatefold cover, MPO 180 grams pressing
Live at the Tibor Varga Festival 1973. This recording was previously unreleased.
Violin: Semyon Snitkovsky
Piano: Gerard Wyss
No electronic effects or post-processing. Straight to tape recording.
Vinyl Cut by Adi Flück from Centraldubs with an analogue tape machine.
No digital equipment at all was involved in this production.
Producer: SCHOPPER AG
Recording equipment:
- Studer C 37 Tube Tape Machine
- Telefunken V 76 Mic-Preamps
- Neumann and Schoeps Microphones
Snitkovsky plays a Violin by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume
Wyss plays on a Piano Steinway D
This album was recorded entirely live during a public concert of the Tibor Varga Festival on July 20th, 1973 at Jesuit Church in Sion, Valais, Switzerland.
Recording Engineer: Susan Varga
Produced by Jürg Schopper
This album is an exact reproduction of the original master tape. Everything has been done in its manufacturing to offer you an exceptional sound quality. Each record is made of pure vinyl, weighing 180 grams, and was cut in such a way (widegroove) as to obtain a truly realistic range.
This is a limited audiophile edition: 300 copies
Semyon Isaevich Snitkovsky - Tribute Volume 1, Live At The Tibor Varga Festival
