Fritz Kreisler Masterpieces for Cello and Piano, and it is a CD Hommage a Fritz et Hugo Kreisler.
The Cremonese cellos performed on by Paul Olefsky are Ruggieri, 1673 and the A & H Amati, 1580

20 MP3 Songs in this album (72:19) !
Related styles: Classical: Romantic Era, Classical: Traditional, Type: Instrumental

People who are interested in Piatigorsky should consider this download.


Details:
Fritz Kreisler 1875-1957 was unique as violin virtuoso stylist and a composer of highest quality timeless violin compositions. He transcribed a number of his pieces for his brother, cellist Hugo Kreisler, and recorded a few of them with Fritz Kreisler as a piano accompanist. Paul Olefsky has performed/recorded/broadcast many of these gems for over sixty years internationally. Intention of this recording is to glimpse the violinist humanity of Kreisler's while setting forth the cello's voice character in the extended tessitura range. The chosen pieces demonstrate Kreisler's international styles-baroque, French, Spanish, Italian, Viennese; Irish; Chinese; Russian; etc. Many cultures are represented. Great cellist remembered for their performance of Kreisler works are the incomparable Emmanuel Feuermann; and wonderful personalities Ennio Bolognini and Arnold Foldesy.
Concert Pianist, ALEGRIA ARCE has performed with the New York Philharmonic; the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Detroit; Houston; 'Leeds' London; etc. She performed at Casals festival in Zermatt, Switzerland. She is a prize winner of the prestigious Leventritt International Competition of New York. She has toured as a soloist in major music centers in North and South America and Europe. She was the first prize winner of the Oakland Symphony International Solo Competition. Ms. Arce studied with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Leon Fleisher.
Arce-"resilient tone, technical brilliance, and full measure of old -fashioned romantic audor"------New York Times
Arce-"Most lovely pellucid tone and secure pearl-even technique." ------San Francisco Chronicle
PAUL OLEFSKY is Emeritus Professor of Music from the University of Texas at Austin. He has performed and conducted master classes internationally including master classes at Oxford and Cambridge, sponsored by the European String Teachers Association. His students fill key positions as professors and principals worldwide. He was awarded first prize of the prestigious Naumburg and Michael Memorial International Solo Competitions. He matriculated from the classes of legendary greats Piatigorsky and Casals. After graduating from Curtis Institute of Music, he appeared as a soloist and the youngest principal cellist with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Carnegie Hall under Maestro Ormandy. He is a solo recording artist for the Americus Records, Amatius Classics, Monitor, Musical Heritage, Vox, and Voice of America Records, and his broadcast credits include NBC, CBS and BBC-London. He was on the jury panels of the Piatigorsky International Competition (Violoncello Society of New York), and Interlochen International Competition (General Motor & Seventeen Magazine). Prof. Olefsky has been awarded the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professorship and was the director of the UT Plan II Chamber Music Program in the College of Library Arts. He was also a professor of Cello/Chamber Music at Peabody Conservatory and Hart School of Music.