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Summary: Szeryng en la cuspide
Comment: Cuento con varias versiones (entre Cd y Lps) de estas obras maestras. Entre las interpretaciones mas destacadas estan las de Kuijken, Milstein, Heifetz, Menuhin, y finalmente Grumiaux y Szeryng, estas dos ultimas son las que mas me han satisfecho personalmente. La version de Grumiaux es de una gran belleza acustica, virtuosismo y elegancia musical. La version de Szering no se queda atras en todo esto, quizas solo un punto abajo en lo que respecta a lo que yo llamaria "dulzura melodica" que se disfruta en ocaciones un poco mas en la grabacion de Grumiaux. Sin embargo la interpretacion de Szering sobrepasa en la profundidad espiritual y en el sentido trascendente y hasta religioso de la obra, en su ejecucion no hay una sola nota que no este cargada de intencion respecto al todo estructural de la obra, no cae en el virtuosismo por el puro virtuosismo. Sin ser en nada inferiores las otras extraordinarias grabaciones de estas obras para violin solo, para mi, la de Szering, es la mas sincera y profunda de las interpretaciones que se han grabado de estas Sonatas & Partitas para Violin Solo del "quinto evangelista" Johann Sebastian Bach .
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Summary: Not the best
Comment: Ugh, I wish I hadn't bought Szeryng's recording. His tone is scratchy, his phrasing is uneven and choppy (dominated by bow changes and shifts), and his dynamics seem rather arbitrary. This was such a disappointment!
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Summary: Impeccable! The standard performance
Comment: Henryk Szeryng's "choked up", unembellished sound makes for a spot-on, highly profound and emotionally charged interpretation. He really gets to the heart of the matter here that leaves all other performances of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas that I have heard in its wake.
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Summary: I still like Millstein better
Comment: I have owned the Millstein recording on LP since ancient times. While Szering is excellent, I think Millstein has greater warmth and lyricism; his recording remains my first choice for these pieces.
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Summary: Very best Bach for solo violin
Comment: It is not easy to meet a CD that listen over and over again these days. Recently I met it. When I listen the sample on the Amazon page the sound just caught me, "What is it?" "Different!".
Szeryng is not a present player, unfortunately he passed away for years ago. I am sorry I didn't know him until now. Because he spent his later life in Mexico, or he did not get a good manager, or he did not care about it, anyway he did not seem to get fame as he deserved it.
I like Bach solo violin set, especially the first sonata and the second partita. I have listened by some famouse violinists but I wonder I could meet beyond this in my rest of life.
In this CD, I love the first sonata, the first partita. Overall, the violin sound is brilliantly wonderful. I don't know why but when listening this CD the sound impresses me before music, that is not usual, I always care music before sound.
In Japan, his playing is often referred as great nobility or dignity, and he rarely makes mistakes, someone says the performance is like even silience after playing pleases me.
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