Emil Talmanyi Bach Three Sonatas & Three Partitas For Unaccompanied Violin (3 LP)

Audiophile 180g Virgin Vinyl 3LP Box Set!
Mastered from the Original Masters of Universal Music!
Pressed at Pallas!
Violinist Emil Telmanyia, using the Vega Bach Bow, performs three Sonatas and three partitas for unaccompanied violin by J.S. Bach. The performances were recorded in November 1953 and April 1954 at West Hampested Studios.
The conductor and violinist Emil Telmányi, together with the bow maker Knud Verstergard, developed his own round arch, the so-called Vega stream arch. This made it possible to play polyphonic chords on the violin and is used on this recording from 1953/1954. Telmányi plays three sonatas and three partitas by Bach in an outstanding performance.
The remaster for this box set with three 180-gram LPs was done by Rainer Maillard at the Emil Berliner Studios. The 33 rpm pressing was produced at Pallas in Diepholz.
"There are at least three major virtues: the recording and surfaces are faultless, Telmányi's performances range from good to superlative, and a most interesting endeavour has been made to approximate to the instrument Bach had in mind when originally writing the works... Broadly, then, the effect of the bow is to make the audible music correspond much more closely to its appearance on paper; and the works really do, in the places concerned, take on a new lease of life. But Telmányi goes beyond just demonstrating the new bow; he has mastered it and made it his servant. And he uses it to give wonderful performances of the exhaustingly difficult works. Telmányi, again following the shape of his bow, presents it (Chaconne) as an enormous arch; it is wholly satisfying" - Gramophone
"The restoration of the monoaural "Full Frequency Range Recordings" has been excellently done." - Lothar Brandt, AUDIO, Issue 7/22

Features:

• 180g Virgin Audiophile Vinyl
• 3LP slipcase with original cover jackets included
• Pressed at Pallas in Germany
• Audiophile analogue mastering by Rainer Maillard at Emil Berliner Studios in Berlin
• Mastered from the Original Masters of Universal Music
• Analogphonic release

Musicians:

• Emil Telmanyi, violin (using the Vega Bach Bow)

Selections:

Side A
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
Sonata No.1 In G Minor, BWV 1001
1. Adagio
2. Fuga
3. Siciliano
4. Presto
Side B
Partita No.1 In B Minor, BWV 1002
1. Allemande and Double
2. Corrente and Double
3. Sarabanda and Double
4. Tempo di Bourree and Double
Side C
Sonata No.2 In A Minor, BWV 1003
1. Grave
2. Fuga
3. Andante
4. Allegro
Side D
Partita No.2 In D Minor, BWV 1004
1. Allemande
2. Corrente
3. Sarabanda
4. Gigue
5. Chaconne
Side E
Sonata No.3 In C Major, BWV 1005
1. Adagio
2. Fuga
3. Largo
4. Allegro assai
Side F
Partita No.3 In E Major, BWV 1006
1. Preludio
2. Loure
3. Gavotte en Rondeau
4. Menuet I and II
5. Bourree
6. Gigue

Recorded at West Hampested Studios:
LP 1: Recorded November 19, 20, 25, and 27, 1953
LP 2: Recorded September 24, 25, 28 and 29, 1953
LP 3: Recorded April 1, 2 & 5-7, 1954