Brahms Violin Concerto - Szigeti - LSO - Menges
This is not a performance that seeks to overwhelm the listener with bravura or studio polish. Instead, it presents Brahms’ concerto in its truest light: noble, human, and deeply musical. Szigeti and Menges give us Brahms without compromise, serious, searching, and unafraid of restraint. That honesty, coupled with excellent engineering, ensures this recording endures as more than a historical document. It remains a living performance, one that speaks as directly today as when it was first set down.
Artist(s): Violin – Joseph Szigeti
Conductor – Herbert Menges
Orchestra – London Symphony Orchestra
Recording Info: Producer – C. R. Fine, Wilma Cozart, Harold Lawrence
Engineer – Robert Eberenz
Recording: Watford Town Hall, outside London, 26-28 June 1959
Sourced from a Mercury original pressing
Components used for this transfer: Analog: Transferred using a VPI - HW-40 Anniversary Direct Drive Turntable - Cartridge used Ortofon MC Anna Diamond - Custom Phono Preamp designed by Victor Khomenko of Balanced Audio Technology
Digital: Merging Hapi Analog to Digital Converter, clocked by an Antelope Audio 10MX Atomic Clock
Power Conditioning: Shunyata Research Everest 8000 for all components
All components grounded to Shunyata ALTAIRA Hubs
1 Allegro Non Troppo 22:45
2 Adagio 9:50
3 Rondo: Allegro Giocoso Ma Non Troppo Vivace 8:08
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