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...debut at age 16 in Carnegie Hall. He has shown up everywhere from Mostly Mozart concerts with Yo Yo Ma at Lincoln Center to solo appearances with the Israeli Symphony. He recently recorded the Mendelssohn and Bruch (G minor) violin concerti. However, his most recent accomplishment, a recording of Kreisler pieces and arrangements, shows he lacks good taste and ability in program selection. These Kreisler shorts have been encore pieces for violinistic virtuosos since they were first recorded by Kreisler in the mid-1920s. They are all repetitious, and a recital of 18 show-off compositions like this Mintz disc...
...course, the same could not be said of Kreisler's some 200 records. An Austrian violinist with the most distinctive style of the 20th century, he plays his own pieces with poise and beauty...
...written in D Major, which signifies, in Mozart, an emphasis on orchestral sonority. Shumsky promoted this interpretation with considerable success. The HRO spun through the four movements, permeated with tricky cutoffs and entrances, with flair and vitality. The bassoon work was especially fine. In two cadenzas written by Fritz Kreisler, Shumsky livened up the work (which does not have the force of the mature Mozart's masterpieces) with spectacular double-stopped trills and breakneck-speed runs...
John Eisenhart, french horn, and Hsueh-Yung Shen, piano, perform music of Mozart, Kreisler, and Debussy. Holmes Hall...
Sheila Rheinhold, violvin, and Max Sung, -iano, perform music of Mozart, Kreisler, and Debussy. Holmes Hall...