Description

JELLY D’ARÁNYI (JELLY ARANYI DE HUNYADVÁR) (BUDAPEST, HUNGARY 30 MAY, 1893 – FLORENCE, ITALY, 30 MARCH, 1966)

Jelly d’Aranyi was a Hungarian violinist who made her home in London. She was born in Budapest, the grand-niece of Joseph Joachim, and sister of the violinist Adila Fachiri. She began her studies as a pianist, but switched to violin at the Music Academy in Budapest when Jenő Hubay accepted her as a student. After concert tours of Europe and America as a soloist and chamber musician she settled in London. On memorable occasions, she and Béla Bartók gave sonata recitals together in London and Paris. His two sonatas for violin and piano were dedicated to her, Jelly and Bartók presented them in London in March 1922 (No. 1) and May 1923 (No. 2). She was an excellent interpreter of Classical, Romantic and modern music. After d’Aranyi had, at his request, played “gypsy” violin music to him one evening, Maurice Ravel dedicated his popular violin-and-piano composition Tzigane to her. Ralph Vaughan Williams dedicated his Concerto Academico to her. Gustav Holst’s Double Concerto for Two Violins was written for Jelly and Adila. The D’Aranyi String Quartet is named after her. She played a curious role in the emergence and 1937 world premiere of Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto. On the basis of messages she received at a 1933 séance, allegedly from Schumann himself, about this concerto of which she had never previously heard, she claimed the right to perform it publicly for the first time. That was not to be, but she did perform it at the London premiere. From her 20s, Jelly d’Aranyi was a lifelong friend of Georgie Hyde-Lees, the wife of W. B. Yeats.

TRACKLIST

1. 2 Serenade in D K250 ((Mozart) Vocalion A 0242-44
2. 2 Violin Concerto in d minor BWV 1043 (Bach) with Adila Fachiri (violin) Vocalion A 0252-53
3. 3 Concerto in G K 216 (Mozart) Vocalion A 0242-44
4. 6 Duettini Op.18 – Sérénade with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K-05260
5. 6 Duettini Op.18 (Godard) Minuit with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano)  Vocalion K 05260
6. 24 Caprices Op.1 — Tema con variazioni Quasi presto (Paganini) with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion D-02103
7. Alman (Anon arr Craxton) with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion X 9981
8. Bagatelle in D (Gatty) Columbia DB361 W-147939
9. Caprice Op1 No. 24 (Paganini) with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion D 02103
10. Chaconne in g (Vitali ed Charlier) with Arthur Bergh (piano) Columbia 9875
11. Concerto in a Op. 3 No. 6 RV356 (Vivaldi arr Nachéz) with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05226
12. Concerto in c BWV 1060 (Bach) with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05110