Description
Dvorak's Concert for Violin and Orchestra conducted by Ferenc Fricsay and featuring Johanna Marzy on violin and the RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Berlin. 180g vinyl pressing from Clearaudio.
"Here is the first LP recording of this Concerto, and a marvellous performance it is, too. Johanna Martzy has hitherto only been heard on records here in the Brahms Concerto and that performance established her at once as a great player. This new record entirely confirms the verdict. If I call her playing on this new disc ravishing I use the word most carefully : it is, indeed, so beautiful that it makes even the occasional duller passages good to listen to. She has an unerring sense of tempo—how exactly right is her speed for the slow movement: and her freshness and rhythm in the Finale are a delight. This is just the sort of performance this Concerto needs and it is one that will commend the music to anyone who has so far not been particularly captivated by the work." – Gramophone/1955
