S0410. SZYMON GOLDBERG, w.Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Marcia Curcio, Victor Babin, Brooks Smith, Beveridge Webster & Artur Balsam (Pfs.), w.Pablo Casals, Zara Nelsova, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, van Beinum, Mitropoulos, Steinberg & Szymon Goldberg Cond.: Szymon Goldberg Centenary Edition of non-commercial recordings, Vol.I. (E.U.) 8–Music & Arts 1223, recorded 1950-70. Transfers by Lani Spahr & Hitoshi Hanzawa. Specially priced. - 017685122323

CRITIC REVIEWS:

“Szymon Goldberg was a great solo violinist, a fine conductor, and an exceptional chamber musician….One of the crowning glories of this set is Goldberg’s 1952 transcendental reading of the Berg concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony under the direction of William Steinberg….and I simply haven’t heard a reading of the Berg that I like as much as this one….This set has a healthy helping of Bach, a composer Goldberg treats with awe, aiming to show the grandeur and elaborate architecture of the music by using a lot of heartfelt expression….This set also has some 20th-Century music from concerts that Goldberg played in Aspen in the later 1960s.”

- Elaine Fine, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, March/April, 2010



“This immaculate stylist….[realized] that the composer knew best, he sought out the quiet centre of the piece he was playing and let his performance grow out of that, rather than impose an egotistical interpretation. It followed that he was a great Mozart violinist, probably the finest of the last century.”

- Tully Potter, CLASSIC RECORD COLLECTOR, Summer, 2009