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Article: replay;Fritz Kreisler: The Complete RCA Recordings with John McCormack (tenor),Geraldine Farrar (soprano), Sergei Rachmaninov (piano) and various supporting artists (Recorded: 1910-1946) (RCA 09026-61649-2; 11 discs)
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
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He was a gentleman among virtuosos, a Bruckner pupil who earned
the title "King of Violinists" and partnered the greatest musicians
of the day - including Godowsky, Dohnanyi, Paderewski, Casals and,
of course, Rachmaninov. Fritz Kreisler premiered the Elgar Concerto
under Elgar and played sundry concertos under Mahler; he foxed the
critics by parading his own charming compositions as arrangements
of original "baroque masters", fell victim to American war hysteria
during the First World War and was ousted from Europe during the
Second. He became an American citizen in 1943 and made a few
records thereafter, but by then his old-world warmth, wit and
interpretative good manners had been ...