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Background: Michael Rabin: The first, last and hidden recordings. The release of these recordings in 2011 coincides with the 75th anniversary of Michael Rabin's birth. His musical voice may have been quiet the past forty years, but to violin aficionados his star still shines brightly, his virtuosity and unique sound as electrifying today as they were when he first began performing as the next, great wunderkind.

Rabin's discography is small, reflecting not only his premature death at the age of 35 years, but also the fact that for the last decade of his life, he never had a recording contract.

All of which adds to the importance of this recently discovered trove of recordings. For here we have Rabin as never heard before, across his lifespan, from the earliest extant recording when he was 11 years of age, through his golden middle period as captured in a Capitol-EMI studio recording with Brooks Smith (a recording that was never released commercially), to one of his final live performances in 1971, the year before he died. The span of these recordings, bookends to a remarkable life and career, therefore gives the listener an unique opportunity to revisit not only the beauty of his playing, but also to follow his transition from boy wonder revelling in high speed pyrotechnics, to the mature artist bringing depth and due gravitas to the concerto masterpieces of Brahms and Bruch. The journey, no less than the playing, is deeply moving for we, the listeners, know what ending is in store for the artist.

Extract from the booklet note - Anthony Feinstein, 2012.

CATALOGUE NR: SBT31470
RECORD LABEL: Testament
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 34.99
RELEASE DATE: 28-Nov-2011

COMPOSER: Edouard Lalo  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Michael Rabin
TRACKS: CD1 1947-1949 - Symphonie espagnole op.21 (Edouard Lalo). Caprices op.1 No.11 / No.17 / No.24 / No.5 (Nicolo Paganini). Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso in A minor op.28 (Camille Saint-Saens). Schon Rosmarin (Fritz Kreisler). Serenade after a Jewish folk song (Heinrich Schalit). Violin Concerto op.77 : excerpt (Johannes Brahms). Partita No.2 in D minor : excerpts (JSBach). Banjo and Fiddle (William Kroll). Caprice op.1 : No.5 (Nicolo Paganini). CD2 1961-1964 - Slavonic Dance op.72 No.2 (Antonin Dvorak). Tambourin Chinois op.3 (Fritz Kreisler). La fille aux cheveux de lin (Claude Debussy arr. Hartmann). Banjo and Fiddle (William Kroll). Introduction & Tarantelle op.43 (Pablo Sarasate). Spanish Dance No.1 (Manuel de Falla arr. Kreisler). Vogel als Prophet (Robert Schumann arr. Heifetz). La Chasse (Fritz Kreisler after Cartier). Nocturne op.9 No.2 (Fryderyk Chopin arr. Sarasate). Polonaise No.1 in D op.4 (Henryk Wieniawski). Violin Sonata (John Alden Carpenter). CD3 1970-1971 - Violin Concerto op.77 (Johannes Brahms). Scottish Fantasy op.46 (Max Bruch). Presentation.
ARTISTS: Michael Rabin      

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