Pablo De Sarasate - Zigeunerweizen (1904)

The Spanish Great Virtuoso and Composer, Pablo de Sarasate plays his famous own violin composition, 'Zigeunerweizen', Recorded in 1904. This is a repressing from original master made in mid-1930s. After the electrical playback is over, I put the phonograph playback of the Side B, played on a Victor Credenza Machine which is displayed in Korean Cultural Resources Center. The machine's speed adjustment lever was broken, so I can't correct the turntable's speed in this playback. And Sorry for low sound quality for that second playback as I lost original WAV recording file.(It's a 16kbps MP3 transfer)

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• Pablo
• Sarasate
• 78rpm
• Zigeunerweizen
• Victrola
• Credenza

[SashaDrago]

Marvelous. It has to be admitted that nowadays soloistic technical standards are much higher, but this may have entailed actually an IMPOVERISHMENT of the *main* contribution one should expect from a soloing artist - creativity, originality, idiosyncrasy, freedom. Also please note how rubato and dynamics, *not vibrato and boogerish gliss*, are Sarasate's main expressive devices. There's a lesson to be had for all of us there, isn't it? ;-) Thank you for sharing it.

[milsteinelman]

Can't believe that I am actually hearing Sarasate playing his own composition from more than 100 years ago. It is so beautiful! Thank you for posting

[MrGer2295]

Pablo de Sarasate (full name Pablo Martin Meliton Sarasate у Navascues)  (March 10, 1844, Pamplona - September 20, 1908, Biarritz) ranks among the world's top violinists of the latter 19th century.

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[MrGer2295]

A virtuoso of phenomenal proportions, his playing held audiences spellbound by its facility and gracefulness. He was justly referred to as the singer of the Spanish people, for his art was linked closely with the song and dance lore of his people, of which he made many striking concert arrangements.

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[MrGer2295]

Born on March 10, 1844 in Pamplona, his first teacher was his father, a bandmaster and violinist.

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[MrGer2295]

At the age of eight Sarasate made his first appearance in La Coruna with a programme of folk songs and dances which he had heard during his tours of the country with his father. This was followed by an appearance in Madrid at the royal court where the little violinist was awarded a Stradivarius as a token of the royal admiration of his talent.

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[MrGer2295]

A year's course at the Paris Conservatoire brought the thirteen-year-old violinist a gold graduation medal from one of the finest music schools of the world. For another two years Sarasate took lessons in composition from N. Reber.

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[MrGer2295]

The year 1859 saw the beginning of Sarasate's triumphant concert tours through the countries of Europe and Asia, which lasted for more than forty years (he died on September 20, 1908). Pablo Sarasate repeatedly visited Russia where he became acquainted with Tchaikovsky, Anton Rubinstein, Auer, Wieniawski and Davydov. Incidentally Tchaikovsky's “Serenade melancolique” became one of his favourite pieces.

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[MrGer2295]

Sarasate was hailed as “Paganini of the end of the century". His playing enchanted audiences by its romantic uplift, nobility, unexampled virtuosity, absolute freedom and facility and sheer technical mastery. The songful, silvery tone of his violin gave utterance to every movement of his artistic intellect.

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[MrGer2295]

A highly versatile violinist, Sarasate was known particularly for the interpretation of his own compositions which gave striking expression to the national style of his performance.

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[MrGer2295]

Nevertheless he also included in his programmes such classical works as Bach's “Chaconne", Beethoven's Concertos (Sarasate also played his rarely performed Youth Concerto), pieces of Mendelssohn, Wieniawski, Naschez. With Sarasate in mind, Saint-Saens composed his “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso”, “Havanaise” and his Third Concerto.

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[MrGer2295]

“Havanaise” and his Third Concerto. Lalo wrote for him his “Symphonie Espagnole” and Bruch his Concerto No. 2 and “Schotische Phantasie”. To him too dedicated his works (Concerto No. 2) Wieniawski, Antonin Dvorak („Mazurka"), Goldmark and MacKenzie.

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