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STEFAN FRENKEL (WARSAW, 21 NOVEMBER, 1902 – NEW YORK, 1 MARCH, 1979)

 

 

 

 

Frenkel was born in Warsaw in 1902, a son of businessman Adam Frenkel and wife Berta. At the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin he studied violin with Adolf Busch and Carl Flesch, and composition with Friedrich Koch. He became concertmaster of the Dresden Philharmonic in 1924.

At this time he also gave concerts as soloist and in chamber music, and performed contemporary music in the series of concerts organized by the pianist Paul Aron [de], the “Neue Musik Paul Aron”. He gave the premieres of Josef Suk’s “Phantasie” for violin and orchestra, and of Kurt Weill’s concerto for violin and wind orchestra. He left Dresden in 1926, and appeared as soloist at venues in Germany, playing works by contemporary composers, including the premiere in 1929 of his own concerto for violin and string orchestra.

From 1933, in Nazi Germany, Frenkel could perform only in events organized by the Jüdische Kulturbund. He left Germany in 1935 and moved to Switzerland, where he was concertmaster of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. In the following year he moved to the United States, and in New York was the first concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera, holding the post until 1940.

He was a violin teacher at Princeton University, and during summers he was concertmaster at Rio de Janeiro Opera and Santa Fe Opera.

Frenkel died in 1979 at his home in Forest Hills, Queens, New York. He was survived by his wife Lotte, children Sonja and Thomas, and a granddaughter.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

a) Zuhälter-Ballade b) Seeräuber-Jenny (Weill-Frenkel) Homocord 4-3998 H 62793

Liebesleid (Kreisler) Kristall Best.-Nr 5063 C4621

Obertas (Wieniawski) Best.-Nr 5063 C4631

 

Richard Dyer-Bennet – Beethoven Scottish And Irish Songs

Label: Concert Hall – CHC-13

Format: Vinyle, LP, Red vinyl

Pays: US

Genre: Classical, Folk, World, & Country

Style: Folk, Romantic

A1 Faithfu’ Johnie

A2 O Sweet Were The Hours

A3 Oh, How Can I Be Blithe And Glad

A4 The Lovely Lass Of Inverness

A5 Could This Ill World Have Been Contriv’d

A6 Sunset

B1 Again My Lyre

B2 On The Massacre Of Glencoe

B3 The British Light Dragoons

B4 O Mary, At Thy Window Be

B5 Bonnie Laddie

B6 Highland Laddie

Cello – Jascha Bernstein

Piano – Ignace Strasfogel

Tenor Vocals – Richard Dyer-Bennet

Violin – Stefan Frenkel

Informations sur la matrice (Side A Runout): CHS BL-11548

Informations sur la matrice (Side B Runout): CHS BL-11547

 

Sonata in F Op.1 No.12 HWV 370 (Handel)

Adagio (mtx GM 58A/)

Allegro (mtx /GM 59A)

Largo (mtx GM 60B/)

Allegro (mtx /GM 61A)

Stefan Frenkel (violin)

Sterling Hunkins (’cello)

Ernst Victor Wolff (harpsichord)

Recorded: 1937, Musicraft studio, New York

Format: Coarse-groove, 78 rpm, 12” / 30 cm, electrical

Issued: September 1937

Catalogue numbers: 1030-31