Ruggiero Ricci The Glory of Cremona Brunswick SXA 4521 LP

Ruggiero Ricci The Glory of Cremona

Ruggiero Ricci plays 15 Famous Violins

Brunswick Decca Analogphonic 180g LP SXA 4521 / LP43155

from the original analogue master tapes of Universal Music

audiophile analogue mastering by Rainer Maillard at Emil Berliner Studios

180g audiophile virgin vinyl pressing by Pallas Group GmbH in Germany

printed in Korea

new, factory sealed

"Nobody who attended the session at which Ricci made this unusual recording is likely to forget the sight which greeted one on entering the studio: the long table, flanked by two pistol-packing Pinkerton detectives, bearing no fewer than fifteen of the world's highest pedigreed violins... Ricci took up the violins one by one, planted his feet firmly on the yellow chalk marks sketched at the prescribed distance from the microphones, and played on each instrument a selection chosen to show it to best advantage. It was a fascinating parade of pieces that are fiddle music par excellence, and Ricci's masculine, unmincing approach suited most of them very well indeed." (High Fidelity)

Track List

Side 1

1. Intrada (Desplanes)

2. Larghetto (Nardini)

3. Praeludium (Vivaldi)

4. Cantabile And Waltz (Paganini)

5. Adagio (Mozart)

6. Improvisation Op. 21 No.1 (Kabalevsky)

7. Melodie Op. 42 No. 3 (Tchaikovsky)

Side 2

1. Largo (Veracini)

2. Sicilienne (Paradis)

3. The Violin Maker Of Cremona (Hubay)

4. Larghetto (Handel)

5. Romance in A Major (Schumann)

6. Hungarian Dance No.20 (Brahms)

7. Hungarian Dance No.17 (Brahms)

8. May Breeze (Song Without Words Op.62 No.1) (Mendelssohn)