The Complete Recordings of Maud Powell, Vol. 1

The Complete Recordings of Maud Powell, Vol. 1

The Complete Recordings of Maud Powell, Vol. 1
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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Composer: Charles August de Beriot
Composer: Max Bruch
Composer: Pablo de Sarasate
Composer: Ambroise Thomas
Composer: Edward Elgar
Composer: Maud Powell
Composer: Herman Bellstedt
Composer: Hart Pease Danks
Composer: Victor Herbert
Composer: Emile Sauret
Composer: Henri Vieuxtemps
Composer: Frantisek Drdla
Composer: Percy Grainger
Composer: Franz [Dresden] Schubert
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Composer: Jules Massenet
Conductor: Josef A. Pasternack
Performer: George Falkenstein
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-10-16
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
  1. Partita No.1 in b, BWV 1002: Tempo Di Borea
  2. Minuetto
  3. Orphee Et Eurydice: Melodie
  4. Vn Con No.7 in G, Op.76: Allegro Maestoso
  5. Vn Con No.7 in G, Op.76: Andante Tranquillo
  6. Vn Con No.7 in G, Op.76: Allegro Moderato
  7. Kol Nidrei
  8. Zigeunerweisen
  9. Mignon: Gavotte
  10. Spanish Dance, Op.26 No.8
  11. Salut D'amour
  12. Four American Folk Songs: My Old Kentucky Home/Old Black Joe/Shine On/Kingdom Comin'
  13. Caprice On Dixie
  14. Silver Threads Among The Gold
  15. Petite Valse
  16. Farfalla, Op.40, No.3 (Will-O'-The-Wisp)
  17. Polonaise, Op.38
  18. Guitarrero
  19. Souvenir
  20. Molly On The Shore
  21. The Bee
  22. Minute Waltz
  23. Thais: Meditation

Music reviews of The Complete Recordings of Maud Powell, Vol. 1

Music Review: At last! Maud Powell's musicianship available again
Rating: 5 Stars

This is a reissue of "The Art of Maud Powell, a 'Victor Immortal' - complete recordings 1904-1917" prepared by the Maud Powell Foundation (Arlington, VA) in 1989. The guiding spirit behind that foundation, and project director of this collection, is Powell's biographer Karen A. Shaffer.

These three CDs were available only from the Maud Powell Foundation. I managed to get volume 3 several years ago after hearing all three discs from a library, but volume 2 has not been available. So, I've waited for volumes 1 and 2 hoping they'd come back "someday." Well, here they are, and Naxos has also released volume 3 according to their January 2 2002 newsletter.

Maud Powell (1867-1920) was in 1904 the first solo instrumentalist to record for Victor's new celebrity artist series on their Red Seal label. Their promotional materials told us to "Listen to Maud Powell's violin...if you want to find out how much can be got out of a fiddle, go--listen to--Maud Powell." They were right.

Powell's performances are the type of playing that may bring tears to your eyes, going straight to the heart and soul of the music and resonating with whatever you find inside yourself. She starts with a remarkably intense tone and naturally easy phrasing, then adds a tastefully varied vibrato and portamento (as vocally-inspired ornaments to heighten the expressivity). She varies her intonation according to the keys and the directions of the phrases, as her younger contemporary Pablo Casals did on the cello. It is extraordinary, like the best singer one can imagine but going beyond words. It is the kind of performance where it doesn't even matter what music she's playing...classical bon-bons, excerpts, folk songs, whatever. The music becomes a living thing in performances this good: breathing and moving and dancing right in front of you, and commanding your attention. It will get to you and you will feel it. What more needs to be said?

Bravo to Naxos for making these recordings available. The sound is pretty good, too, considering that the recordings were made before the availability of electric microphones. I hardly notice the background noise of the record since the performances are so directly engaging. These discs would be a "must-have" even at three or four times the price that Naxos is asking for them....

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