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ADILA FACHIRI (BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, 26 FEBRUARY, 1886 – LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, 15 DECEMBER, 1962)

 

 

 

 

Born Adila Arányi de Hunyadvár in Budapest, her early musical education was at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest. She began to study violin when she was ten years old, under Jenő Hubay. At the age of 17 she won the artists’ diploma, the highest musical distinction in Hungary. She was a grand-niece of Joseph Joachim, and she then studied with him in Berlin until his death, being possibly the only private pupil he ever accepted. He bequeathed to her one of his Stradivarius violins. She first went to England in 1909, and in 1915 she married Alexander Fachiri, an English barrister living in London. By 1924 she had played in public in the chief cities of Hungary, Austria, Germany, Italy, France and the Netherlands, as well as appearing regularly at London concerts. Adila Fachiri made a recording of the Beethoven 10th violin sonata with Donald Tovey. She was the dedicatee of the two violin sonatas of Béla Bartók, and of the 1930 violin concerto by Sir Arthur Somervell. On 3 April 1930, she and her sister gave the first performance of the Concerto for Two Violins of Gustav Holst, at a Royal Philharmonic concert at the Queen’s Hall, under the direction of Oskar Fried. Holst wrote the concerto for them. The sisters were involved in a spiritualistic séance in London in March 1933, at which the existence of Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto in D minor was revealed to them through the ‘voices’ of Schumann himself and of their late grand-uncle, Joachim. She died in 1962, aged 73. She was the sister of the violinist Jelly d’Arányi.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

1. 2 Violin Concerto in d minor BWV 1043 (Bach) with Jelly d’Arányi (violin) Vocalion A 0252-53
2. 6 Duettini Op.18 – Sérénade with Jelly d’Arányi (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K-05260
3. 6 Duettini Op.18 (Godard) Minuit with Jelly d’Arányi (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05260
4. Concerto in a minor Op.3 No.6 RV.356 (Antonio Vivaldi arr. Tivadar Nachéz) Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05226
5. Cueca (Fraser) with Jelly d’Arányi (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K-05292
6. Divertimento in D K.131 Adagio (Mozart arr. anon.) Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05247
7. Friedrich Kreisler 3 Variations on a Theme of Corelli, in the style of Tartini with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion X 9494
8. Gigue (From Sonata in C major for Two Violins) (Bach) with Jelly d’Arányi (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion D-02146
9. Golden Sonata Op. 16 No. 31 part 1 Largo and Canzona (Purcell) with Jelly d’Arányi (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K-05177
10. Golden Sonata Op. 16 No. 31 part 2 Grave e molto maestoso & Allegro Scherzando (Purcell) with Jelly d’Arányi (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K-05177
11. Hungarian Dance No.2 in d minor (Brahms) with Ivor Newton (piano) Vocalion R 6138
12. Hungarian Dance No2 in d (Brahms arr Joachim) with Jelly d’Arányi (violin) and Ivor Newton (piano)
13. Larghetto (From Sonata in D for Two Violins) (Spohr) with Jelly d’Arányi (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion D-02146
14. Les Chérubins (Couperin arr Slatter) with Jelly d’Arányi (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion X 9494
15. 1 No.6. (Pugnani) with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05142
16. Partita in E BWV 1006 (Bach) with Jelly d’Arányi (violin) Vocalion K 05247
17. Serenade in G Op56 (Sinding) with Jelly d’Arányi (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05270
18. Variations on a Theme of Corelli after Tartini (Kreisler) with Jelly d’Arányi (violin) and E. Hobday (piano) Vocalion X 9494
19. Violin Sonata in F Op.10 [aka Op.17] No.1 Romanze Larghetto (Carl Weber arr. Friedrich Kreisler) with Ivor Newton (piano) Vocalion R 6138