Johanna Martzy: The Violinist Revered By Analogue Reel Tape Lovers
Johanna Martzy was a Hungarian violinist born on October 26, 1924. She is remembered for her short career. Martzy began studying violin at age six. Soon afterwards she started lessons with Jeno Hubay at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and continued with him until 1937. By age 13 she was already touring Hungary and Romania. She did comparatively little recording: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvorak, Bartok, and Stravinsky, mostly for the Britsh Columbia Label, today very sought-after and collectable LPs, on the other side, though many tapes of radio broadcasts still exist. Martzy mostly played a Carlo Bergonzi, 1733, violin though she also owned the Strad, Huberman, 1733 and a Peter Guarnerius the Carl Flesch’s old violin. She died in Switzerland, her death virtually unnoticed, on August 13, 1979, at age 54.
She made her debut at the age of 13 and won a prize at the Geneva International Music Competition in 1947. Died of cancer in Glarus, Switzerland, on August 13, 1979, at the age of 54. A cult violinist whose recordings are few and far between, it was unfortunate that events passed unnoticed after her untimely death. Nor did her career predict her posthumous idolization.
Martzy settled in Switzerland and first performed in England in 1953. Her initial appearances in the United States occurred in 1957. with the Cincinnati Symphony, Denver Symphony and New York Philharmonic orchestras. A second tour of the U.S. took place during the 1958/59 concert season, ahead of her South African tour. She again visited the U.S. in 1960, but thereafter, in the words of the Bach Cantata Website, she became an "unobtrusive visitor to North America," with few additional commercial recordings to her name. She had meanwhile married her Swiss patron, the publisher, amateur violinist and violin collector, Daniel Tschudi (her second marriage, the first having been dissolved) and had a daughter. It’s possible that marriage to Daniel Tschudi removed some of the financial imperative associated with a hectic professional career, while family life no doubt took some measure of toll on her public performing and recording schedule.
Johanna Martzy died of cancer on August 13, 1979, in Switzerland. She was just 54 years old and had been in the public eye among the front rank of violinists for all too brief a period. As a mark of how far she had drifted out of the spotlight in the United States, her death is said to have gone largely unnoticed. Johanna Martzy: the most underrated of the great violinists of our age.
Johanna Martzy - 100th Anniversary Master Reel Tape Copy
100th Anniversary Of Johanna Martzy - Vol 1 [Violin Sonatas from Mozart and Schubert]
100th Anniversary Of Johanna Martzy - Vol 2 [Violin Sonatas from Ravel and Bartók]
100th Anniversary Of Johanna Martzy - Vol 3 [Violin Sonata Brahms No. 1]
100th Anniversary Of Johanna Martzy - Vol 4 [Bruch Violin Concerto No 1]
Artist: Johanna Martzy
Genre: Classical
Label: Triston Master Recordings
Series: Swiss Broadcast Series
Format: 1/4" Reel Tape, Stereo, 38cm/s (15ips), RTM SM900, 510 nWb, EQ CCIR
Released: 2024
Genre: Classical
Style: Romantic
Each master tape copy duplicated manually 1:1 copy on professional studio recorders for each customer.
Features: AAA 100% Analogue - Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes. Pure analogue transfer from the original master tape - The entire tape mastering analogue domain chain was kept analogue from start to finish. Playback machine used for the recording: Telefunken M10A international with V86 and V87 tube amplifiers and for recording: Telefunken M15 open reel to reel tape recorder. No electronic effects or post-processing. Straight to tape recording. No digital equipment at all was involved in this production.
Triston Masters powered by SCHOPPER third generation in the analogue domain with passion for vintage analogue high-fidelity gear and equipment. Triston Masters Recording are a Switzerland label living with analogue music reproduction since 1923 in a professional studio in Switzerland, and only use the very best audiotapes: RecordingTheMasters’ SM911 for master recording, first-generation duplication and making copies from high-quality master tapes.
Each album is a 15 ips, ¼-inch 2-track (½ track) analogy tape copy IEC equalization sourced from a copy of the original master tape. Playback open reel to reel studio recorder is the same tape recorder as we used for doing the recording: Telefunken M10A international with V86 and V87 tube amplifiers and recording for the tape is Telefunken M 15 be sure that there is no difference between the original master tape and the copy.
The label doesn’t use any electronic effects or post-processing, all straight to tape, pure real-time productions, and will continue to produce different music genres on reel to reel tape such as classical, jazz, folk, world music, contemporary and others. The original master reference: recording quality 100% guarantee, where each tape is signed and a certificate of authenticity from Switzerland.
