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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. Sonata in A Op3 No2 (Leclair) with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano)  Vocalion K 05270
2. Sonata in D for violin & continuo Op.9 No.3. (Leclair) with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K-05168
3. Sonata in D Op.2 No.2 — (i) Allegro (Martini) wth  Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion X-9525
4. Sonata in F Op10 No.1 (Weber arr Kreisler) with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ivor Newton (piano)
5. Spinnlied (Dienzi) with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05118
6. The Indian Queen Z.630 (Purcell) — Act IV, Act Tune (‘Air’) [as ‘Andante maestoso’] Vocalion K-05168
7. Trio in c G125 [Op. 7 No. 1] (Boccherini arr Moffat) with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05142
8. Trio Sonata in C Op1 No. 6  (Pugnani arr Moffat) Pt 1 with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05110
9. Trio Sonata in C Op1 No. 6  (Pugnani arr Moffat) Pt 2 with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05110
10. Trio Sonata in C Op1 No. 6 (Pugnani arr Moffat) Part 1 with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05142
11. Trio Sonata in C Op1 No. 6 (Pugnani arr Moffat) Part 2 with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K 05142
12. Trio Sonata in F (Tartini) Part 1 with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion X 9877
13. Trio Sonata in F (Tartini) Part 2 with Adila Fachiri (violin) and Ethel Hobday (piano)  Vocalion X 9877
14. Variations on a Theme of Corelli after Tartini (Kreisler) with A. Fachiri (violin) and E. Hobday (piano) Vocalion X 9494
15. Villanelle (Pianelli arr. Salmon) with Ethel Hobday (piano) Vocalion K-05231