SZYMON GOLDBERG / Parlophone Odeon PMA 1007 Very Rare

	£		47
	$		62

LABEL

PARLOPHONE ODEON

CAT NUMBER

PMA 1007

LP TITLE

BACH : Violin Concerto in E Major, HAYDN : Violin Concerto in G Major

ARTIST / CONDUCTER

SZYMON GOLDBERG !  /Walter Susskind

ORCHESTRA

Philharmonia Orchestra

RECORDING

Mono

DESCRIPTION  & LABEL 

Very rare 1953 issue of this magnificent recording of the virtuoso Syzmon Goldberg playing Bach & Haydn. Made in Gt Britain on brown grooved label.

VINYL CONDITION SIDE 1:

NM-

VINYL CONDITION SIDE 2:

NM-

COVER CONDITION:

G

NOTE:

3" tear along the bottom of the back cover with some cellotape discolouring & some laminate lift on the front cover hence grading.

Szymon Goldberg (1 June 1909 – 19 July 1993)
Szymon Goldberg was a Polish-born American violinist and conductor.
Szymon Goldberg was one of the notable violinists of the twentieth century.

His family moved to Warsaw when he was a child, where he began violin studies at the age of seven. He went to Berlin in 1917, studying with the great pedagogue Carl Flesch. Acting on Flesch's advice he waited until he was 15 before attempting a debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Here, he distinguished himself by playing - in one evening - three of the most demanding concertos in the repertoire, the Bach E major, Joachim's Hungarian, and the Paganini No 1.
After a recital in Warsaw in 1921, he was soon engaged as concert-master of the Dresden Philharmonic from 1925 to 1929. He was noticed by Wilhelm Furtwängler, who offered him the leadership of the Berlin Philharmonic, a post he held from 1929 to 1934. During this time, Goldberg continued his solo appearances and with composer/violist Paul Hindemith and cellist Emmanuel Feuerman he formed an important string trio, but was forced by the rise of the Third Reich to leave the orchestra in 1934, despite Wilhelm Furtwängler's attempts to safeguard the Jewish members of the orchestra.
 He began touring Europe and the Far East as a soloist, and with the pianist Lili Kraus as his partner in sonata recitals, formed one of the great recital partnerships. He and Kraus recorded a historic series of Mozart sonata recordings on the Parlophone label, he played all over Europe, Japan, China and the Dutch East Indies, and in 1938 he made a highly successful American debut in New York.
While on a tour of Asia, he was interned in Java by the Japanese from 1942 to 1945. It was just before his arrest that he tried to hide his 1711 Liegnitz Stradivarius from falling into the hands of the Japanese. It was later recovered by a physician ... in his garden! But that’s another story...

Eventually he went to the United States and became a naturalised American citizen in 1953. From 1951 to 1965 he taught at the Aspen Music School. Concurrently he was active as a conductor. For 15 years he was a faculty member of the Aspen Festival, where he formed the Festival Quartet with the pianist Victor Babin, the viola player William Primrose and the cellist Nikolai Graudan and, as such, they made a number of fine recordings and concert appearances.
He conducted several of the world's leading orchestras and made highly regarded recordings of modern violin repertory and the most memorable being the Mozart Violin sonatas with the Romanian pianist Radu Lupu as his partner. In 1955 he founded the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra in Amsterdam, which he led until 1977. Here, he achieved international success as a soloist-conductor in violin concertos and concerti grossi and included not only the symphonies of Haydn and Mozart but also orchestral works by modern composers, particularly Bartok and Hindemith. He also took the ensemble on many tours.
From the years 1977 to 1979 he was the conductor of the Manchester Camerata. He later appeared as guest conductor with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the orchestras of Boston, Chicago and Cleveland.
He taught at Yale University from 1978 to 1982, the Juilliard School in New York City from 1978, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia from 1980, and the Manhattan School of Music in New York from 1981.
In his Great Masters of the Violin (1984), Boris Schwarz wrote: 'Goldberg is a masterful violinist whose sole concern is the interpretation of great music, to the exclusion of all virtuoso frills. His technique is flawless, his tone warm and pure, his sense of style and his musical taste exquisite. His performance style stresses refinement, intimacy and noble intensity equally evident in the classical repertoire and modern works.'
In 1990 Szymon Goldberg conducted the New Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo and a visiting professor at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1992 the Goldbergs moved to Japan, taking up residence in the foothills of Tateyama Mountains in Toyama. He died in Ôyama-machi, Japan on July 19, 1993. Mrs. Goldberg remained in Japan performing and mentoring young artists. She died unexpectedly of a long time illness on October 20, 2006, during the Szymon Goldberg Memorial Chamber Music Festival in Toyoma.
SZYMON GOLDBERG as a man was well liked and greatly respected by his fellow musicians. From a quote from Professor Yfrah Neaman 'He was never a man for small talk. If he gave an opinion it was only after he had given considerable thought to the matter, and as a result his judgement was never questioned.'
He had the rare distinction of being internationally acclaimed both as a virtuoso violinist and conductor. His teacher, Carl Flesch, considered him one of the violinists who had come closest to achieving the perfect balance between technique and interpretation.

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