FELIX SLATKIN TED SAIDENBERG Piano Cesar FRANK VIOLIN SONATA Private Record 78

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A series of great Violin, Piano and Orchestra records on rare labels, from 1902 Monarch to 1940 War Germany recordings.

Felix Slatkin, Hollywood conductor and arranger for Frank Sinatra, was a student of Efrem Zimbalist, and father of Leonard Slatkin, here in a rare recording made most likely in Los Angeles with Theodor Saidenberg (a pianist Slatkin knew back at the Curtis Institute)

Cesar Franck Violin Sonata Part 3&4 only (label is marked I & II in pencil)

Unknown West Coast Manufacture Record MC 119/ MC 121. This may be an excerpt or live recording, since the first side starts rather abruptly

 Condition: VERY GOOD PLUS PLUS, unworn and very quiet, but very scratched12" 78 rpm record

FELIX SLATKIN (1915 - 1963) was an arranger, conductor and violinist.  He was active in Hollywood during the 40's, 50's and early 60's.  During his career he won wide acclaim and respect for his innovative and inspired contributions to many recordings.

In the 40's, Slatkin was the concertmaster of the 20th Century Fox studio orchestra.  He later conducted the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra and also formed the Concert Arts Orchestra, recording with both ensembles.   He was Frank Sinatra's concertmaster and conductor of choice during the Capitol years of the 50's.  Also during the 50's, Slatkin produced and conducted two outstanding albums of military music on the Capitol label.  He later recorded several albums for Liberty leading the "Fantastic Strings" at the height of the "Stereo Action" period. Like many studio musicians, he was also virtuoso performer in his own right. He recorded as a classical violinist, and he and his wife, cellist Eleanor Aller -- also a studio regular for whom John Williams wrote a prominent part in the score of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"-- founded a legendary American classical group, the Hollywood String Quartet.

Felix Slatkin and Eleanor Aller had two sons.

Leonard Slatkin is Music Director (2008) of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Laureate of the St.Louis Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra.

Frederick Zlotkin (Fred uses the original Russian spelling of the family name) is cellist for the New York Philharmonic, Principal Cellist for the New York City Ballet and cellist for the Lyric Piano Quartet.     

Theodore Saidenberg (Piano)

Born: March 8, 1908 - Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Died: August 1986 - Hollywood, Florida, USA

The American pianist, Theodore Saidenberg, was a graduate of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia.

Theodore Saidenberg was a much sought-after accompanist and partner in chamber music. He appeared in concert with Louis Kaufman, Erica Morini, Jascha Heifetz, Rose Bampton, Emmanuel Feuermann, Mischa Mischakoff, Raya Garbousova, Helen Jepson, Lily Pons, Richard Tucker and Isaac Stern. He had also a successful career in radio, motion picture recording and on the concert stage. Saidenberg and Wolfgang Edward Rebner (1910-1993) who teamed up on radio, perform in 1946 a two-piano version of Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, BWV 147, a work that is best known in Myra Hess’s extraordinary two-hand transcription.

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