BRITISH VIOLINIST MAX ROSTAL (1905-1991) 3 CDR

 

MAX ROSTAL (CIESZYN, POLAND, 7 JULY, 1905 – BERN, SWITZERLAND, 6 AUGUST, 1991)

 

Max Rostal was born in Cieszyn and studied with Carl Flesch. He also studied theory and composition with Emil Bohnke and Matyás Seiber. He won the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1925. From 1930–33 he taught at the Berlin Hochschule, from 1944 to 1958 at the Guildhall School of Music, and then at the Musikhochschule Köln (1957–82) and the Conservatory in Bern (1957–85). His pupils included Yfrah Neaman, Paulo Bosísio, Howard Leyton-Brown, Igor Ozim, Ole Bohn, Peggy Klinger, Paul Rozeck, Edith Peinemann, Bryan Fairfax and members of the Amadeus Quartet. He died in Bern. Rostal played a wide variety of music, but was a particular champion of contemporary works such as Béla Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2. He made a number of recordings. Rostal premiered Alan Bush’s Violin Concerto of 1946–8 in 1949. He was the dedicatee of Benjamin Frankel’s first solo violin sonata (1942), and he also made the premiere recording. Rostal played in a piano trio with Heinz Schröter (piano) and Gaspar Cassadó (cello), who was replaced in 1967 by Siegfried Palm. Rostal edited a number of works for Schott Music, and produced piano reductions as well. Rostal’s daughter Sybil B. G. Eysenck became a psychologist and is the widow of the personality psychologist Hans Eysenck, with whom she collaborated.

TRACKLIST

Piano Trio No. 3 In C Minor, Op. 1 No. 3 I. Allegro Con Brio (Beethoven) Gaspar Cassadó (cello) and Heinz Schroter (piano)

Piano Trio No. 3 In C Minor, Op. 1 No. 3 II. Andante Cantabile Con Variazioni (Beethoven) Gaspar Cassadó (cello) and Heinz Schroter (piano)

Piano Trio No. 3 In C Minor, Op. 1 No. 3 III. Menuetto. Quasi Allegro (Beethoven) Gaspar Cassadó (cello) and Heinz Schroter (piano)

Romance Pour Violon Et Orchestre In F Major, Op. 50 (Beethoven) Walter Goehr (piano)

Romance Pour Violon Et Orchestre In G Major, Op. 40 (Beethoven) Walter Goehr (piano)

Sonate Pour Violon Et Piano No. 9 In A Major, Op. 47 Kreutzer I. Adagio Sostenuto – Presto (Beethoven) Franz Osborn (piano)

Sonate Pour Violon Et Piano No. 9 In A Major, Op. 47 Kreutzer II. Andante Con Variazioni, Pt. 1 (Beethoven) Franz Osborn (piano)

Sonate Pour Violon Et Piano No. 9 In A Major, Op. 47 Kreutzer II. Andante Con Variazioni, Pt. 2 (Beethoven) Franz Osborn (piano)

Sonate Pour Violon Et Piano No. 9 In A Major, Op. 47 Kreutzer III. Finale. Presto (Beethoven) Franz Osborn (piano)

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77 I. Nocturne (Shostakovich)

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77 II. Scherzo (Shostakovich)

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77 III. Passacaglia (Shostakovich)

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77 IV. Burlesque (Shostakovich)

Violin Sonata in E Minor, Op. 82 I. Allegro. Risoluto (Elgar) Colin Horsley (piano)

Violin Sonata in E Minor, Op. 82 II. Romance. Andante (Elgar) Colin Horsley (piano)

Violin Sonata in E Minor, Op. 82 III. Allegro non troppo (Elgar) Colin Horsley (piano)

Violin Sonata No. 1 In G Major, Op. 78 Regen I. Vivace Ma Non Troppo (Brahms) Maria Bergmann (piano)

Violin Sonata No. 1 In G Major, Op. 78 Regen II. Adagio (Brahms) Maria Bergmann (piano)

Violin Sonata No. 1 In G Major, Op. 78 Regen III. Allegro Molto Moderato (Brahms) Maria Bergmann (piano)

Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major, Op. 45 I. Allegretto (Ravel) Monique Haas (piano)

Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major, Op. 45 II. Blues. Moderato (Ravel) Monique Haas (piano)

Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major, Op. 45 III. Perpetuum mobile. Allegro (Ravel) Monique Haas (piano)