Description

HENRI LEWKOWICZ (1919 – 1981)

 

 

 

 

At the age of sixteen he went to Paris to study with Jacques Thibaud, Jules Bucheritz and Carl Flesch. His first recitals at the Normal School and the Chamber Music Association showed his exquisite temperament. When he set out on an artistic tour of the United States, World War II began and he fled the armies of the Third Reich and took refuge in Barcelona. He became a member of an orchestra, that performed in very popular restaurant at the Plaça de Catalunya. There he was discovered by good fans who knew how to see in him a classy artist, a performer who should not remain anonymous and in an atmosphere unfit for his category, and helped him join a professional activity of superior scope, sponsoring its presentation to the Gran Teatre del Liceu with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, which conducted another artist who escaped the war tragedy of those years and was also much loved in Barcelona: the Japanese master Ekitai Han. This release staff was soloist Concerto in D major by Beethoven and memorable was a success and from then he was asked to perform at many concerts. He also participated in orchestral concerts with the Berlin Chamber headed by Hans von Benda. He later triumphantly toured Europe and much of America.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 11

Henri Lewkowicz, violin

RSO Saarl. RF – R. Michl

 

Glasunow: Violin-Konzert a-moll op.82

BR SO – R. Albert

 

Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 2, SZ 76

Helene Boschi, piano

Recorded in Paris, 06/12/1961 (session)

 

Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

1959 recorded live in Paris

 

Paganini – Kochanski: La Campanella

Albert Collard, piano

Dec 22, 1965