The Violins of Cremona, Homage to Kreisler / Salvatore Accardo, Laura Manzini (1994)

The Violins of Cremona, Homage to Kreisler / Salvatore Accardo, Laura Manzini

(1994)
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Salvatore Accardo gave his first professional recital in 1954 at the age of 13, in a programme
that included Paganini Capricci. In 1956, when he was 15, Accardo won the Geneva
Competition and in 1958 became the first winner of the Paganini Competition in Genoa. His
vast repertoire ranges from pre-Bach to post-Berg; composers like Sciarrino, Donatoni,
Piston, Piazzolla and Xenakis have written for him.
In addition to playing regularly with the worlds leading orchestras and conductors, Salvatore
Accardo performs successful recitalsand is particularly devoted to chamber music. In 1992
he founded the Accardo Quartet and, because of his deep involvement with young people, in
1986 he founded the Academy Walter Stauffer together with Giuranna, Filippini and
Petracchiin Cremona, where they regularly give master-classes. In 1971 he founded the
Settimane Musicali Internazionali in Naples, where the audience is admitted to rehearsals,
and the Cremona String Festival.
In recent years, Accardo has also devoted part of his activities to conducting and has
appeared with a number of important European and American Orchestras. Healso recorded
as a Conductor with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London. In 1987 Accardo made a highlypraised debut as an opera conductor in a new production of Rossini Loccasione fa il ladro at
the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, directed by Ponnelle. In the following years he
conducted at the Rome Opera House, Monte Carlo Opera, at Lille and at the Naples Opera
House.

In 1992, in celebration of 200th anniversary of Rossinis birth, he conducted both in Pesaro

and Rome the first-ever modern edition of the Messa di Gloria (recorded live by Warner
Fonit), a feat which he repeated in 1995 in Vienna with the Wiener Symphoniker.
In addition to the recordings of Paganinis Capricci and Concertos for violin for DGG label
and numerous recording for Philips such as Sonatas and Partite of Bach and the woks for
violin and orchestra of Max Bruch, Salvatore Accardo recorded for ASV, Dynamic, EMI,
Sony Classical, Collins Classic e FONE. His most recent recordings are; Concerto in D
major and Two Romances of Beethoven with Orchestra Accademia alla Scala conducted by
Carlo Maria Giulini for Sony Classical; Homage to Heifetz and Homage to Kreisler for
FONE in which he plays the legendary violins from the collection of Palazzo Comunale di
Cremona. Always for FONE there are recordings of Brahms Sonatas for violin and piano,
Schubert Quartets and Paganini Capricci, for Dynamic Accardo plays Paganinis violin. Fon
re-masterised the Mozarts Complete works for violin in 13 CDs, using high quality valve
technology.
Salvatore Accardo was awarded the Premio Abbiati by the Italian critics, in recognition of
the exceptional standard of his playing and interpretation. Italys highest honour, the
Cavaliere di Gran Croce, was bestowed upon Accardo by the President of Italy in 1982. In
1996 the Beijing Conservatoire named him most honourable Professor. In 1999 he was
granted the order of "Commandeur dans l'ordre du mrit culturel", the highest honour of the
principality of Monacoand in 2002 he received the prestigious Una Vita per la Musica
Award.
In 1996 Accardo re-founded the Orchestra da Camera Italiana (O.C.I.), whose members are
the best pupils of Cremona Walter Stauffer Academy. In 1997, he registered two CDs with
them: The virtuoso violin in Italy and Masterpieces for violin and strings for Warner Fonit
Cetra, marking the recording debut of the Orchestra da Camera Italiana. In 1999 Accardo and
O.C.I. registered the complete Paganini Concerti for violin and orchestra for EMI Classics,
the Concerto per la Costituzioneand, in 2003, and the complete Astor Piazzolla works for
violin in 3 SACDs for Fon.
Accardo is the owner of two Stradivarius violins: the Hart ex Francescatti 1727 and the
Firebird ex Saint-Exupry 1718.

Tracklisting:
Carlo IX di A. Amati (1566)
01. Praeludium und Allegro in the style of Paganini - |5:10|
02. Menuett in the style of Porpora - |4:07|
03. Tambourin in the style of Leclair - |2:29|
Hammerle di N. Amati (1658)
04. Rondino based on a theme by Beethoven - |2:33|
05. Melodie Gluck arr Kreisler - |3:12|
06. Allegretto in the style of Boccherini - |3:20|
Quarestani di G. Guarneri (1689)
07. Hindu 0 Lied Rimsky Korsakov da from Sadko - |3:27|
08. Mazurka A min Chopin Op 67 N 4 arr Kreisler - |3:31|
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Guarneri detto del Ges (1734)

La Gitana - |3:17|
Impromptu Schubert Op 90 n 3 arr Kreisler - |5:30|
Liebesfreud - |3:22|

Cremonese di A. Stradivari (1715)

12. Tambourin Chinois - |3:47|
13. Cavatina - |4:03|
14. Schon Rosmarin - |1:53|
15. Songs my mother taught me Dvorak Op 55 n 4 from Gipsy Melodies - |3:04|
16. Hungarian Dance Brahms arr. Kreisler - |3:51|
17. Hymen an die Sonnet Rimsky Korsakov from Le coq d'or - |5:10|
18. Malaguena Albeniz Op 165 no 3 arr Kreisler - |3:57|
19. Liebesleid - |3:35|