BACH UNACCOMPANIED SONATA FOR VIOLIN #2 LP IN B MINOR /GEORGES ENESCO, VIOLINIST

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Here for your delectation is the SPECTACULAR & RARE----------------BACH UNACCOMPANIED SONATA FOR VIOLIN #2 LP IN B MINOR /GEORGES ENESCO, VIOLINIST

This is truth. After this all is trivial.
Enescu's bow weaves an amazing seamless robe of each movement, seeming to compress its time-span while expounding it depths and wonder.

Nowhere is this experienced to better effect than in the great Partita No 2, the mighty Chaconne is a revelation of glory because it is a revelation of humility - deep insight, absolutely no attempt to draw attention from the music to the performer, not a grain of self-pity or self-regard.

A most wonderful and uplifting experience.

If Bach is played in heaven, then this is how he is played!

Georges Enescu (1881-1955) was an extraordinary musician. One of the last century's most gifted composers, his works go far beyond the Two Romanian Rhapsodies for which he is most popular today. One of the greatest violinists of all time, Enescu was also a brilliant conductor. The great pianist Alfred Cortot once admitted that Enescu's piano proficiency was superior to his own. Enescu was also blessed with a photographic memory (he knew most Western musical masterpieces, including some 150 Bach Cantatas, by heart).

Enescu's student Yehudi Menuhin called him 'the most extraordinary human being, the greatest musician and the most formative influence I have ever experienced.' Pablo Casals said he was the most phenomenal musical talent since Mozart.... The many tales of his boundless energy and facility simply boggle the mind. Once, as part of an impromptu lesson for an enthralled Amadeus Quartet, he sat down at a piano for several hours and played all of the Beethoven string quartets, with running commentary, off the top of his head."

This sublime Bach recording was among the last Enescu ever made. Even in his late sixties and suffering from arthritis, Enescu retained a sovereign technique. Here and there is some imperfect intonation and a few signs of strain, but these are little more than tiny imperfections in a Grand Master painting. Considering numerous sets of Bach's solo violin works, none of them are a match for the profoundly musical insights of this one.
This recording was made in 1949 for Don Gabor (proprietor of the fabled Remington LP label), and was issued on an incredibly rare LP. The 1995 edition of "Canfield's Guide to Classical Recordings" (the bible of rare LP collectors) lists this as "the Holy Grail of all records!"