Edith Peinemann - Edith Pyneman / WDR Concerto Live Recording Collection (mastered in 2023) <Tower Records Limited Edition>. - Japan SACD

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Edith Peinemann

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A memorial project for Edith Pyneman (1937-2023). Highly technical and tastefully lyrical beauty. The original WDR (West German Radio) recording was mastered by Mr. Saito of Altus. This is the first SACD release in a completely limited quantity, exclusive to Tower Records! A virtuoso violinist of exceptional beauty, Edith Hartmann was active in Europe, the U.S., and South Africa from the 1960s to the 1980s, and was highly acclaimed in those countries, but has been little recorded, and has become a household name. The German female violinist Edith Pienemann (1937 - 2023) was a highly acclaimed performer in Europe, the U.S., and South Africa from the 1960s to the 1980s. The world's first SACD release of this extremely valuable collection of broadcast recordings fills this void. Born in Mainz, the daughter of a concertmaster, Pyneman learned the violin from her father and honed her skills under Heinz Stanske. At the age of 17, he studied in London under Max Rostal, a highly respected pupil of Carl Flesch.In 1956, at the age of 19, he won the first prize at the famously difficult Munich International Music Competition. In the 1960s and 1970s, the "cold" style of playing symbolized by Heifetz was in vogue, but she was able to combine the rational playing style of Flesch with the emotionally rich musicality of the German mainstream, and she was a star of the German violin world, which was exhausted by World War II, when she won the Munich International Music Competition, She was loved by conductors such as Sell, Rudolf, and Steinberg, who were forced to flee to the U.S., as well as by Kilebert and Wandt in Germany, and performed with them. On Sell's advice, she withheld a contract with a record company, which resulted in a missed contract opportunity, but instead, as a freelancer, she attracted requests for broadcast recordings from broadcasters around Germany (similar to the case of Johanna Marzi in this area). Since 2017, Pienemann has been supervising the release of the broadcast recordings on CD. The first of these was the four violin concertos recorded for WDR (West German Radio), which are now available on SACD for the first time. The first two pieces were recorded in mono.The first is Beethoven with Sell in 1964, and the second is Mendelssohn with Kilebert in 1960 when she was only 23 years old. There are no commercial recordings of either piece, and since these were the two pieces she performed on her first visit to Japan with the Munich Philharmonic in 1972, they are extremely valuable recordings. During the long first movement of the Beethoven, her playing gradually heats up and reaches its climax just before the cadenza (by Kreisler). The best part of the performance is when Sell leads the orchestra into a blazing cadenza in response. The second movement, which combines the beauty of melodic lines with warm human emotion, and the third movement, whose powerful and elastic rhythms bring the music to life, are also superb. Mendelssohn, on the other hand, gave a passionate performance that confronted the massive and condensed sound of Kiehlbeck's music head-on. He used a lot of slow and fast changes, intensity and weakness, and changes in tone brightness and darkness, but I think it is wonderful that he and Kilebert did not lose the clean flow of the music. (1/2)