Francescatti plays Mendelssohn VC 3rd Mov

[DualThunder]

actually really like this interpretation. very tight ensemble too. i feel his clarity is very widely unmatched but could have done with a deeper tone.

[ipmoic]

I haven't heard this in years! Naturally The ensemble in this finale, with the perfectionist Szell in charge, is magnificent.

But the sweetness of tone and the joy of music is what makes this so memorable--drawn from the fingers of Zino's Del Gesu!

[OriginalMoonbeam]

You will be even more impressed when you find out he was playing a Strad! He got remarkable tone out of that little Strad! Someone posted that for special events in tremendous halls he would sometimes borrow Kreisler's del Gesu..a demonstration of what close friends they were. What is interesting--the sound is the same! The distinquished sound comes from HIS hand. Accardo now owns The "Hart" violin, it sounds lovely, but not the same.

[mesoman4]

24NerF  You are right, however, one correction. Zino was from the French violin school. Born in the south, ie Provence.

[Lecrob3]

Actually I guess that when 24NerF wrote that Maestro Francescatti was an part of the Italian School, probably he referred to the fact that Francescatti's father (first teacher of Maestro Zino) was one of the few pupils of Camillino Sivori. As it is well known, Camillo Sivori was the only pupil of Maestro Niccolò Paganini.

However, I truly agree that it is better to state that Maestro Francescatti - for later education and natural temperant - was a pure expression of the French school.

[boxers7x5]

my favorite recording of this, just amazing.

[24NerF]

When Zino plays it makes you want to smile, one of the greats of the 20th century, Italian violin school FTW!

[themusicdr]

bravo indeed. this has to one of my fav violin concertos. played here with a clarity of tone i have seldom heard esp in the upper register - superb

[EuropeanArchive]

Very nice... I only heard the Earlier Columbia LP with Mitropoulos. Is this from the 1960's?

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Rolf

Historical classical recordings

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[leitfie3579]

My first violin LP was of Francescatti playing this Concerto (with Mitropoulos - this is a later recording). It's lovely to hear him again.