1917 Kathleen PARLOW VIOLIN Chopin SARASATE Nocturne CHARLES PRINCE pno COLUMBIA
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A series of great Solo instrumentals - Piano Violin Cello Harp, Winds and Brass on 78 rpm records
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Rare recording of CANADIAN Violinist Kathleen Parlow with Charles Adams Prince piano
"As a performer Parlow was very great indeed. She had a big, pure tone, a suave legato (‘as if she were playing with a nine-foot bow,' as one admirer put it) and effortless technique."
Carmen : Fantasy
Pablo de Sarasate
Charles Adams Prince (instrumentalist : piano)
Kathleen Parlow (instrumentalist : violin)
Description: Violin solo, with piano
4/19/1916 New York, New York 1 Master Columbia A5992
Chopin Nocturnes, piano, op. 9. No. 2
Pablo de Sarasate (arranger)
Frédéric Chopin (composer)
Kathleen Parlow (instrumentalist : violin)
4/19/1916 New York, New York 1 Master Columbia A5992
Condition:
EXCELLENT MINUS unworn light rubs rare short scratc, RIM CHIP on 1mm into grooves, does not affect music plays E- very quiet l rare ticks
A GREAT QUIET COPY
Violin virtuoso Kathleen Parlow was born in Calgary in 1890. As a child she studied in San Francisco and in St. Petersburg, giving her first recital at the age of six. By the age of 15, she was performing for the British Royal Family. She made her professional debut in 1907 in Berlin and thereafter toured internationally, based initially in Europe and then in the United States.
In 1941 she moved to Toronto to teach at the Toronto Conservatory of Music, and immediately assumed a leading position in the community as an active chamber musician and as a soloist with ensembles such as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. She performed with some of the most prominent Canadian artists of her time, including the pianists Sir Ernest MacMillan and Mario Bernardi and the cellist Zara Nelsova. The renowned Parlow String Quartet, which was active from 1943 to 1958, acquired an international reputation.
Godfrey Ridout wrote in the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (Toronto, 1992): "As a performer Parlow was very great indeed. She had a big, pure tone, a suave legato (‘as if she were playing with a nine-foot bow,' as one admirer put it) and effortless technique."
She died in 1963 of complications from a fall. Thanks to her recordings, scholarships in her name, and two generations of students, her influence continues to be felt throughout Canada and the world.
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