RBM LP RBM-3013-WLP: Bartok / Hindemith - WOLFGANG MARSCHNER violin 1972 GERMANY

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Background -

This LP is extremely rare and sought after by music collectors - a WHITE LABEL PROMO / SAMPLE Record no less! This STEREO LP features violin music written by Bartok and Hindemith and performed by Wolfgang Marschner on the violin. Superb performances! The LP is the very earliest PROMO STEREO record label vintage, made in GERMANY and issued in 1972. The vinyl is in superb condition given it's age, with a few light spider marks on the LP, nothing serious (see details below for more).
Wolfgang Marschner (23 May 1926 – 24 March 2020) was a German violinist, teacher of violin, composer and conductor. He was concertmaster of the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, and instrumental in world premieres of contemporary music. He was professor at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, the Musikhochschule Köln, the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music and, for more than three decades, at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. He also taught at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse.

Marschner was born in Dresden in 1926. He came from an old musical family, whose most famous representative was the opera composer Heinrich Marschner. At the age of four he became the youngest member of the orchestra school of the Staatskapelle Dresden. He made his debut playing Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata at age nine. He studied from age 14 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where, inspired by Váša P?íhoda, Clemens Krauss and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, he composed his 1. Divertimento for String Quartet under the direction of the First Concertmaster of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. At the age of barely seventeen, Marschner was drafted into military service. After the end of World War II, he studied in Hamburg with Erich Röhn, concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic. At the same time, he became soloist, concertmaster and second conductor of the Staatsoper Hannover and played Brahms's Violin Concerto with Franz Konwitschny, who engaged him for further concerts with the Dresden Staatskapelle and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. In 1947 he became concertmaster of the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, where he played the German premiere of William Walton's Violin Concerto. As a conductor, he led a production of the operetta Ein Walzertraum by Oscar Straus, with the Viennese singer Gretl Schörg.

Marschner died in March 2020 at the age of 93.

Marschner's recording of Schoenberg's Violin Concerto with Michael Gielen and the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg was critically acclaimed. Other examples of Marschner's involvement with the Second Viennese School include the concerto with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Gielen, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Pierre Boulez in London, with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich conducted by Hans Rosbaud, with the Dresden Staatskapelle under Otmar Suitner, with the MDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Herbert Kegel, with Stockholmers conducted by Herbert Blomstedt, both with the Scottish National Orchestra at the 1959 Edinburgh Festival, which meant the British premiere. He also played it with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Norman Del Mar, and with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Freiburg, which he also conducted himself.

Marschner performed Alban Berg's Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Bruno Maderna, with the Wiesbaden Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gielen, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves, with the hr-Sinfonieorchester under Mario Rossi, with the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart conducted by Hans Müller-Kray, and with the RSO Helsinki and Nils-Eric Fougstedt.

He performed in Alban Berg's Chamber Concerto for Piano, Violin with 13 Wind Instruments with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and soloists Marschner and pianist Carl Seemann, conducted by Paul Hindemith, the Dresden Staatskapelle with Edouard Steuermann and Scherchen, with the Berlin Philharmonic also with Carl Seemann conducted by Werner Egk, with the Paris Symphony conducted by Pierre Boulez, with the Liverpool Philharmonic and Wilfred Parry conducted by John Pritchard and with the Hallé Orchestra Manchester conducted by John Barbirolli. 

Marschner played world premieres such as Luigi Nono's Il Varianti in Palermo, violin concertos by Winfried Zillig with Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt in Hamburg, by Bernd Alois Zimmermann in Cologne, by Igor Stravinsky in Cairo, and other works. As a premiere, Marschner performed the revised version of Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Concerto funebre in Braunschweig in 1959 with the local Staatstheaterkapelle conducted by Heinz Zeebe. He first performed works by Karlheinz Stockhausen, beginning with the Sonatine for violin and piano, with the composer as the pianist, in a broadcast as the first public performance of a work by Stockhausen. He also played first performances of works by Pierre Boulez, by Schoenberg's student Eduard Steuermann, by Australian Don Banks whose work was written for him for a Proms performance in 1968, and by Raphaël Cendo. At the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, he played the premiere of Franco Evangelisti's "4!", Due piccoli pezzi per pianoforte e violino in 1954, and Giacomo Manzoni's Seconda piccola suite per violino e pianoforte with Aloys Kontarsky in 1957.

Wolfgang Marschner's concertos for string instruments occupy a central position in his oeuvre. At the premiere of his First Violin Concerto with the Dresden Staatskapelle and Thomas Egel as soloist, which Marschner conducted, the Dresden press described the concerto as an "important contemporary work". In performances with the Rostov-on-Don Philharmonic and the Voronezh Symphony Orchestra, also with the composer as conductor and the Russian violinist Olga Pogorelova, it was described as one of the best instrumental concerts of the 20th century. It enjoyed particular success in Odessa, with the New Polish Philharmonic, with the Max Bruch Philharmonic in Sondershausen and with the Beethoven Festival Orchestra in Rome and the German soloist Ariane Mathäus, as well as in Zagreb with the Philharmonic Orchestra there. The high-ranking performances of his Second Violin Concerto with Rainer Kussmaul and the American violinist Oleg Kryssa in Weimar as well as his own interpretations found great resonance among Japanese experts, at the Kirishima Festival, in Tokyo and Osaka, among others.

Wolfgang Marschner's Viola Concerto with himself as soloist was also premiered in Tokyo. Since then, many violists have included it in their repertoire as a symphonic enrichment, and it was performed with overwhelming audience response at the International Master Classes Sondershausen by Loh-Orchester Sondershausen "Max-Bruch-Philharmonie", conducted by the Japanese conductor Hiroaki Masuda, as well as in Saint Petersburg. His Cello Concerto is dedicated to the Italian solo cellist of La Scala in Milan, Alfredo Persichilli, who also played the premiere in Rome and was soloist in the German premiere with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic.

Wolfgang Marschner wrote cadences to violin concertos, W.A. Mozart's Concertos No. 1 in B-flat major and No. 2 in D major, L.v. Beethoven's Violin Concerto, Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's Violin Concerto, and Spohr's Violinkonzert Nr. 8 in A minor "in Form einer Gesangsszene".

• LP made by RBM Records, in GERMANY

• LP released / recorded in 1972
  

• LP is recorded in STEREO

• Record Catalog Number: RBM 3013

• Record Labels are WHITE with black lettering, with the earliest PROMO "Sample Record" STEREO RBM record logos.
  

This listing is for a rare, out of print LP title - an OPENED and in Near MINT minus condition LP PRESSED and ISSUED by RBM Records of a highly collectible title from their catalog - a superb title featuring the music of -

Bela Bartok / Paul Hindemith // Wolfgang Marschner

PROMO LP Title & Track Listing -
1. Bartok: Sonate fur Violine solo  2. Hindemith: Sonate fur Violine allein op. 31, Nr. 1  3. Hindemith: Sonate fur Violine allein op. 31, Nr. 2
Performers Include -
Wolfgang Marschner, violin

CONDITION Details:

The LP jacket is in near mint minus overall condition! The jacket has NO seam splits. The corners and seams are solid, with minimal shelf wear evident. The colors on the jacket are sharp and vibrant - see pictures with this listing as they are of the actual item.

The LP is in near mint minus overall condition! We found that the vinyl looked superb on this vintage LP. There are no significant marks and the LP retains much of the original gloss and sheen. There may be some dust and the odd finger print on the vinyl with no serious marks evident and perhaps a light spider mark or two. There are NO serious spindle marks on the record labels. We have never had a better looking and sounding copy of this LP. Any serious music collector should be happy with the condition of this rare item. That said, acquiring a vintage LP like this is for the performance and rarity of the LP, not necessarily for the sound quality. A Short Note About LP GRADING -

• Mint = Only used for sealed items.
• Near Mint = Virtually flawless in every way.
• Near Mint Minus = Item has some minor imperfections, some audible.
• Excellent = Item obviously played and enjoyed with some noise.
• Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.

For best results, always properly clean your LPs before playing them, even for brand new, sealed items.

The LP is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).

Do not let this rarity slip by!