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LOUIS KRASNER (CHERKASY, UKRAINE, 21 JUNE, 1903 – BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS, USA, 4 MAY, 1995)

 

 

 

 

He arrived in the United States at the age of 5, and graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1922. He continued his studies with Lucien Capet in Paris, Otakar Ševčík in Písek, Czechoslovakia, and Carl Flesch in Berlin. His concert career began in Europe, where he championed the concertos of Joseph Achron and Alfredo Casella. In 1935 he commissioned Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto, which he premiered on 19 April 1936 in Barcelona, with Hermann Scherchen conducting the Pablo Casals Orchestra. He also premiered Arnold Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto in December 1940, with Leopold Stokowski leading the Philadelphia Orchestra. Among the American composers whose works he premiered were Roger Sessions, Henry Cowell and Roy Harris. Krasner retired from solo performing to become concertmaster of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra 1944-1949. From 1949 to 1972 he was professor of music at Syracuse University. In 1976 he joined the faculties of the New England Conservatory of Music and the Berkshire Music Center. He won the 1983 Sanford Medal from Yale University and the 1995 Commonwealth Award.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

1. Concerto For Violin, Op. 36 I. Poco Allegro (Schoenberg) Dimitri Mitropoulos The New York Philharmonic Orchestra
2. Concerto For Violin, Op. 36 II. Andante Grazioso (Schoenberg) Dimitri Mitropoulos The New York Philharmonic Orchestra
3. Concerto For Violin, Op. 36 III. Finale (Allegro) (Schoenberg) Dimitri Mitropoulos The New York Philharmonic Orchestra
4. Concerto For Violin And Orchestra I. Andante; Allegretto (Berg) Artur Rodzinski Recorded December 15, 1940; Severance Hall, Cleveland
5. Concerto For Violin And Orchestra II. Allegro; Adagio; Coda (Berg) Artur Rodzinski Recorded December 15, 1940; Severance Hall, Cleveland
6. Serenade, Op. 24 I. (Schoenberg) Marsch with Clark Brody, Eric Simon, John Smith and Seymour Barab Dimitri Mitropoulos (conductor)
7. Serenade, Op. 24 II. (Schoenberg) Menuett with Clark Brody, Eric Simon, John Smith and Seymour Barab Dimitri Mitropoulos (conductor)
8. Serenade, Op. 24 III. (Schoenberg) Variationen with Clark Brody, Eric Simon, John Smith and Seymour Barab Dimitri Mitropoulos (conductor)
9. Serenade, Op. 24 IV. (Schoenberg) Sonett No. 217 Von Petrarca with Clark Brody, Eric Simon, John Smith and Seymour Barab Dimitri Mitropoulos (conductor)
10. Serenade, Op. 24 V. (Schoenberg) Tanzscene with Clark Brody, Eric Simon, John Smith and Seymour Barab Dimitri Mitropoulos (conductor)
11. Serenade, Op. 24 VI. (Schoenberg) Lied Ohne Worte with Clark Brody, Eric Simon, John Smith and Seymour Barab Dimitri Mitropoulos (conductor)
12. Violin Concerto (Berg) I. Andante – Allegretto BBC Symph. Orch. / Anton Webern cond. Rec. London, BBC Concert Hall, 1.V.1936
13. Violin Concerto (Berg) II. Allegro – Adagio BBC Symph. Orch. / Anton Webern cond. Rec. London, BBC Concert Hall, 1.V.1936
14. Sonata for violin and piano (Piston) Moderato…Andantino quasi adagio… Allegro with Walter Piston (piano) 1939
15. 18. Violin Concerto (Berg) I. Andante, Allegretto Fritz Busch, Stockholm Konsertförening Orchestra 1938