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. Cueca (Fraser) with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K-05292
2. Divertimento in D K131 (Mozart) with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05247
3. Divertimento in D K334 (Mozart) with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion D 02103
4. Gartenmelodie Op85 No3 (Schumann) with Ethel Hobday Vocalion R 6141
5. Gigue (From Sonata in C major for Two Violins) (Bach) with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion D-02146
6. Golden Sonata Op. 16 No. 31 part 1 Largo and Canzona (Purcell) with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K-05177
7. Golden Sonata Op. 16 No. 31 part 2 Grave e molto maestoso & Allegro Scherzando (Purcell) with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K-05177
8. Hungarian Dance No2 in d (Brahms arr Joachim) with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ivor Newton (piano)
9. Hungarian Dance No5 in g (Brahms-Joachim) with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05231
10. Hungarian Dance No8 in a (Brahms arr Joachim) with Coenraad V. Bos (piano) Columbia 2061 M
11. Jota (M de Falla arr Kochanski with Coenraad V. Bos (piano) Columbia 2061
12. Larghetto (From Sonata in D for Two Violins) (Spohr) with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion D-02146
13. Les Chérubins (Couperin arr Slatter) with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion X 9494
14. Orfeo ed Euridice Melodie (Gluck arr Kreisler) with Coenraad V. Bos (piano) Columbia 5427
15. Partita in E BWV 1006 (Bach) with Adila Fachiri (violin) Vocalion K 05247
16. Passepied (Delibes-Gruenberg) Columbia 2042-D 148026
17. Poème hongrois Op27 No. 6 (Hubay) Columbia 2042-D 145621
18. Poème hongrois Op27 No. 6 (Hubay) with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion X-9981
19. Romance (Joachim) Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K-05118
20. Rondino (Beethoven, arr. Kreisler) with Coenraad V. Bos (piano) Columbia 5427 145610
21. Scènes de la csárda Op. 33 No. 5 (Hubay) with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05226
22. Serenade in G Op56 (Sinding) with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano)  Vocalion K 05270
23. Serenade Op7 (Kelly) with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion R 6141
24. Sonata in a minor Op.1 No.3 (Galuppi) — (i) Largo; Sonata in C Op.1 No.1 — (ii) Presto [as ‘Allegro giocoso’] with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K-05203