ANGEL 35259 LP: Michael Rabin - Paganini / Glazounov Violin Concertos 1955 UK SS
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$ 300
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Background -
As hard as it is to believe for a vintage LP from 1955, this LP is still FACTORY SEALED! Granted, the outer plastic wrap has some tearing and fraying, but the LP has never been pulled out of the jacket and still has a crisply lettered dowel spine. This is a very rare LP pressing on the ANGEL record label (ANG 35259). We are assuming that the LP was made in the UK, but there is no way to know for sure as there is nothing to indicate where it was made or when it was issued on the LP jacket (but we know it was originally issued in 1955). The record jacket is in mint shape with NO seam splits (gorgeous). The jacket has NO writing on it, just some slight discoloration due to age and as we mentioned, the original cellophane outer plastic wrap is fraying and torn in places. The vinyl itself we are assuming will also be MINT as this item is FACTORY SEALED - pictures with this listing are of the actual item.Michael Rabin managed to be one of the most talented and tragic violin virtuosi of his generation. Hailed as a child prodigy, his talent matured gracefully into an adult level, but he failed to follow in his emotional growth, resulting in a cutting short of his career. He never reached the age of 36, yet remains one of the most fondly remembered of virtuoso violinists for listeners and fellow musicians such as Pinchas Zukerman, with whom he shared a teacher.
Rabin's father was a violinist in the New York Philharmonic, and his mother a Juilliard-trained pianist. When he was a year old, Rabin was able to beat perfect time, and at three he demonstrated his possession of perfect pitch; by five he was studying the piano, and not long after, while visiting a doctor whose hobby was the violin, Rabin took up a miniature version of the instrument that was in the office and began tuning and playing it, refusing to return it. His father began teaching him the instrument soon after, but before their fifth lesson, the elder Rabin realized that his son's musicianship exceeded his own. Ultimately Rabin studied with Ivan Galamian, the future teacher of Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman.
Rabin made his first professional appearance in 1947, at age ten, with the Havana Philharmonic under Artur Rodzinski, performing the Wieniawski Concerto No. 1. He made his recording debut two years later, on the Columbia Masterworks label, with a set of 11 of Paganini's Caprices for solo violin. The following year came Rabin's Carnegie Hall debut, at age 13, with the Vieuxtemps Concerto No. 5, in a performance that had him hailed in The New York Times as "already an accomplished artist...play[ing] with real grace and beauty of tone." No less a figure than the conductor George Szell declared Rabin the greatest violin talent that had come to his attention in the previous 30 years, and Dimitri Mitropoulos called Rabin "the genius violinist of tomorrow."
In the 1950s, Rabin signed with Capitol-EMI, for which he recorded the most important part of his legacy, including the Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1, the first and second violin concertos of Wieniawski, and the Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, and Glazunov concertos. At the end of the 1950s, Rabin suddenly cut short his recording career, for reasons that were never clear. He continued to perform regularly in concerts around the world, and even made broadcast recitals during the 1960s revealed his talents undiminished. There were accounts of his emotional instability, and an unstable personal life -- he had a rough time adjusting to the change from child prodigy to adult virtuoso, though his talent showed no signs of abatement; during the late '60s there were stories of chronic drug use; he also displayed some unusual neuroses, including a fear of falling off the stage, but none of that should have affected his recording career while leaving his concert career intact. In any case, Rabin never entered a recording studio again after 1959, and in 1972, while still in the prime of his life died in a fall when he slipped on a parquet floor and struck his head on a chair.
Rabin's legacy on record is principally concentrated in EMI's catalog. The complete Paganini 24 Caprices for solo violin are available as a single CD, while the rest of his output has been released in a six-CD set, containing virtually all of his concerto recordings. They remain seminal recordings of each of the pieces. - Bruce Eder
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LP made by ANGEL Records, in the UK / England / Great Britain (we assume)
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LP released in 1955
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LP is recorded in MONO
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Record Catalog Number: ANG 35259
Paganini / Glazounov // Michael Rabin / Lovro von Matacic
LP Title -
Paganini: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in D Major, op. 6
Glazounov: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A Minor, op. 81
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major - Composed By – Paganini
A1 First Movement: Allegro maestoso- Cadenza (by Flesch) - Allegro maestoso
A2 Second Movement: Adagio espressivo
A3 Third Movement: Rondo (Allegro spiritoso)
B. Violin Concerto In A Minor - Composed By – Glazounov
Performers / Credits / Other Information -
• Copyright (c) – Electric & Musical Industries (U.S.) Ltd.
• Distributed By – Electric & Musical Industries (U.S.) Ltd.
• Photography – James Abresch • Sleeve Notes – Alec Robertson
First cat. # on sleeve, second on label
Sleeve with dowel rod
Angel Red label - Made in England
(Red with Silver Angel)
Back of sleeve with text in English only
CONDITION Details:
The LP jacket is in mint condition, as this item is FACTORY SEALED. The jacket is tight and clean, with NO seam splits. The corners are solid. The colors on the jacket are sharp and clean with just light shelf wear and a bit of discoloration due to age. The outer plastic wrap is still one the jacket, although some of it is torn and fraying - see pictures as they are of the actual item.
The LP is assumed to be in mint condition, as this item is FACTORY SEALED! Remember, this is a vintage LP, not a new audiophile LP....some extraneous sound is inevitable and should be expected for a vintage LP. This LP retains much of the original gloss and sheen! There are NO serious spindle marks on the record labels either.A Short Note About LP GRADING -
- Mint = Only used for sealed items.
- Near Mint = Virtually flawless in every way.
- Near Mint Minus = Item has some minor imperfections, some audible.
- Excellent = Item obviously played and enjoyed with some noise.
- Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.
For best results, always thoroughly clean your LPs before playing them.
LPs can be audiophile quality pressings (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).
Don't let this rarity slip by!!!price rating
