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Great Violinists: Louis Kaufman: VIVALDI: Twelve Concertos for Violin and Strings, Op. 8 Great Violinists: Louis Kaufman: VIVALDI: Twelve Concertos for Violin and Strings, Op. 8 ADD CD1 63:51 CD2 62:43 Great Violinists • Kaufman 8.110297-98 Concerto No. 1 in E major, Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Concerto No. 8 in G minor, RV332 9:39 Concerto for Two Violins ‘La primavera’, RV269 9:29 ‘La tempesta di mare’, RV253 9:21 1 Allegro 3:00 in D major, RV513 1 Allegro 3:05 # Presto 3:21 2 Largo 2:55 (Peter Rybar, Second Violin) 15:06 2 Largo 2:57 $ Largo 2:21 3 Allegro 3:44 ^ Allegro molto 6:17 2 CDs 3 Allegro 3:27 % Presto 3:40 & Andante 3:06 VIVALDI Concerto No. 9 in D minor, RV236 8:26 * Allegro 5:45 Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Concerto No. 6 in C major, 4 Allegro 3:31 ‘L’estate’, RV315 9:56 ‘Il piacere’, RV180 8:22 5 Largo 2:06 Tracks ^-* were recorded in Zurich, Switzerland in Twelve Concertos for Violin and Strings, Op. 8 4 Allegro non molto 3:17 ^ Allegro 3:11 6 Allegro 2:48 August 1950. The Winterthur Symphony Orchestra 5 Adagio - Presto 3:46 & Largo e cantabile 2:17 was conducted by Clemens Dahinden. (Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione) 6 Presto 2:54 * Allegro 2:54 Concerto No. 10 in B flat major, (First issued as Concert Hall Society Release E-2 ‘La caccia’, RV362 8:03 [CHEL-2 PT1 and ERKL 0245AR]) including the first ever recording of Concerto No. 3 in F major, Concerto No. 7 in D minor, RV242 7:54 7 Allegro 3:26 ‘L’autunno’, RV293 10:03 ( Allegro 2:51 8 Adagio 2:12 7 Allegro 4:14 ) Largo 2:00 9 Allegro 2:26 The Four Seasons 8 Adagio 2:40 ¡ Allegro 3:05 9 Allegro 3:09 Concerto No. 11 in D major, RV210 12:40 Louis Kaufman, Violin 0 Allegro 4:54 Concert Hall Chamber Orchestra • Henry Swoboda Concerto No. 4 in F minor, ! Largo 2:40 ‘L’inverno’, RV297 8:07 @ Allegro 5:07 The Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Zurich • Clemens Dahinden 0 Allegro non molto 3:23 ! Largo 2:13 Concerto No. 12 in C major, RV178 8:48 @ Presto 2:31 # Allegro 3:04 $ Largo 2:26 Tracks 1-@ were recorded on 25th, 30th and 31st Tracks #-¡ were recorded in Zurich, Switzerland, on % Allegro 3:17 December, 1947 at Carnegie Hall, New York. 4th, 5th and 8th August, 1950. The Winterthur The Concert Hall Chamber Orchestra was conducted Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Clemens Tracks 1-% were recorded in Zurich, Switzerland on by Henry Swoboda, joined by organist Edouard Nies- Dahinden. 4th, 5th and 8th August, 1950. Berger and harpsichordist Edith Weiss-Mann. The Winterthur Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Clemens Dahinden. (First issued as Concert Hall Society Set AR Volumes (First issued as Concert Hall Society CHS1064 Louis Kaufman, The Concert Hall Chamber Orchestra and Henry Swoboda during the recording of ‘The Four Seasons’, I and II [375-3[4] [1375], 376-9 [1376], 377-7[8] [CM18PT1N1A]) (First issued as Concert Hall Society CHS1064 at Carnegie Hall in December, 1947 (by kind permission) [1377], 378-9[10] [1378], 379-10 [11] [1379], [CM18PT2N2A & PT3N1A]) 380-1[3] [1380], 381-3[5] [1381], 382-1[3 & 10] [1382], 383-3[11] [1383], 384-10[11 & 13] [1384], 385-3[6 & 11] [1385], 386-3 [6] [1386], and CHC-1 [BL-11441 & BL11442])

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Great Violinists: Louis Kaufman: VIVALDI: Twelve Concertos for Violin and Strings, Op. 8 over-saturation and exploitation, Vivaldi’s music still meantime he was asked by Sam Josefowitz, owner of Paul Collaer who referred them to the Royal Music as a discovery of a missing early Vivaldi work was in continues to remain fresh, exuberant, and engaging. the newly formed Concert Hall Records, for repertoire Conservatory of Brussels library. At that time Kaufman fact a re-discovery of an early Vivaldi work that had The American violinist Louis Kaufman was microphone would continue on an additional 27 labels The son of a violinist who played at the Basilica of recommendations for solo violin concertos with a small found the first published edition that consisted of been overlooked through the cumbersome system of undoubtedly among the most recorded violinists of this through the 1970s. In 1948 the Kaufmans moved to San Marco in Venice, the younger Vivaldi was ordained orchestra – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons seemed a perfect fit. published parts for all twelve concertos. The Kaufmans cataloguing of works in European libraries. century. In a career that spanned nearly seven decades, Europe, making Paris their home base. The next eight to the priesthood in 1703, and was appointed violin During the last week of 1947 Kaufman recorded the ordered a microfilm copy, not believing their good luck. Louis Kaufman recorded the balance of Opus 8 for he made over 150 major recordings of his classical years saw a multitude of performances including master at the Ospedale della Pietà, the beginning of a Four Seasons at Carnegie Hall with the conductor At the time many European libraries filed their material Concert Hall Records in Switzerland in 1950. In the repertoire, and was heard as concertmaster in over five premières of violin concertos by Martinů (Concerto da long association. According to a contemporary Henry Swoboda, harpsichordist Edith Weiss-Mann, by year of acquisition, so searching for a particular following years, Kaufman would organize all-Vivaldi hundred movie soundtracks between 1934 and 1948, Camera), Anthony Collins, Lars-Erik Larsson, Henri observer, Charles des Brosses, who was in Venice in organist Edouard Nies-Berger, and members of the score could often be a frustrating experience. concerts in Paris, London, and New York, helping to including Gone With The Wind (1939), Show Boat Sauguet, Dag Wiren, Leighton Lucas, and Milhaud’s 1739-40, “The Ospedali have the best music in Venice. string section of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Soon after returning to Paris, the Kaufmans met a re-launch Vivaldi to the preeminent status he enjoys (1936), Modern Times (1936), Dodsworth (1936), Second Concerto and Concertino de Printemps under There are four of them all for illegitimate or orphaned Because of a forthcoming recording strike in the United friend for lunch who happened to be a correspondent for today. Wuthering Heights (1939), The Magnificent Ambersons the composer’s baton. During this period Kaufman was girls whose parents cannot support them. They are States scheduled for 1st January, 1948, Kaufman the Continental Daily Mail (an English newspaper (1942), Intermezzo (1939) and The Treasure of Sierra awarded the Grand Prix du Disque for his recording of brought up at the State’s expense and trained recorded the concertos after midnight (in the closing published in Paris). She published their saga and several Lance Bowling Madre (1948). Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the conductor Henry exclusively in music. Indeed, they sing like angels, play days of 1947), so booked were the recording venues in English and American newspapers picked up the story Born in Portland, Oregon in 1905, Kaufman’s early Swoboda. In 1950 he suggested to the Town Hall Music the violin, flute, oboe, cello, bassoon – in short, no New York City. The record was released in early 1948 including Time magazine. What was hailed (at the time) studies were with Frank Eichenlaub and Henry Committee in New York City a first USA Vivaldi instrument is large enough to frighten them. They are with programme notes by the San Francisco Bettman. By the age of ten, he was travelling on the Festival to honour the composer’s 275th birthday in two cloistered like nuns. The performances are entirely their musicologist Alfred Frankenstein. From those notes Producers’ Note Western Pantages Vaudeville Circuit as assisting artist concerts. Through the years Louis Kaufman was most own and each concert is composed of about forty Kaufman was surprised to discover that the The Four to the dancer Rozika. In 1918 he went to New York City supportive of American composers. He recorded girls...” Seasons were part of a group that included an additional This re-issue and restoration project would not have been possible without the generous assistance and cooperation to enter the violin class of the renowned teacher Franz Copland’s Violin Sonata with the composer at the During Vivaldi’s years with the Pietà, intermittently eight concertos, at the time unlocated. of the Louis Kaufman Estate and, his widow, Dr Annette Kaufman. Additional source materials were provided by Kneisel (1865-1926) at the Institute of Musical Art. piano, works by Robert Russell Bennett, Samuel Barber from 1703 until 1740, his opera and instrumental In late 1948 the Kaufmans let their Hollywood Lance Bowling, Richard Wahlberg, and the Encore Archives in San Rafael, California. During the 1920s Kaufman took up the viola and often (the first recorded performance of the Violin Concerto), production was enormous, although it now seems that home and moved to Europe to perform, and to record As source materials for this project, we were given test pressings, master discs, and numerous copies of the played chamber music at private parties with Elman, Ernest Toch, William Grant Still, Walter Piston and approximately half of Vivaldi’s total output has been new repertoire for Concert Hall Records; the birth of the various versions of the commercial pressings of these concertos. The blue and red album versions of The Four Casals, Hofmann, Zimbalist, Heifetz and Kreisler. In many others. Just before his death in February 1994, he lost. This means that he produced some four hundred LP record was on the horizon. Another mission was to Seasons, which contained vinyl and shellac pressings, as well as acetate test pressings and re-issued long-play 1927 he graduated from the Institute of Musical Art completed his autobiography with his wife of sixty years, concertos during his years with the Pietà. His best see what other Vivaldi might be suitable to record and versions were compared and contrasted. The very best sounding movements were carefully selected for this, first with highest honours, winning the Loeb Prize; the Annette. A Fiddler’s Tale was published by the known works are the four concertos which he entitled to try to locate the additional eight concertos of Opus 8. ever, authorized CD re-issue of these works. Although many of the commercial versions were less than acceptable, following year he won the famed Naumberg Award. In University of Wisconsin Press in 2003. In 2002 Louis Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons). These Just before leaving Los Angeles, the Kaufmans were the source materials from the Louis Kaufman Estate allowed us to present the concertos in surprisingly good sound the same year (1928), he made his New York City Kaufman’s recording of The Four Seasons was concertos are the first four in a set of twelve which he introduced to Dario Soria, head of Cetra-Soria Records, for the period. Town Hall début, which launched his solo concert inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. called Il Cimento dell’ Armonia e dell’ Inventione (The who encouraged them in their pursuit of the Vivaldi career that would last nearly fifty years. An original It is remarkable that Louis Kaufman’s mid-century, Contest between Harmony and Invention) and scores and also wrote them a letter of introduction to the Recording Dates and Details member of the Musical Art String Quartet (as violist), première recording of The Four Seasons, single- published as his Opus 8 in 1725. Each concerto in The Italian musicologist-composer Gian Francesco The Four Seasons were recorded on 25th, 30th, and 31st December, 1947, at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The he toured with that group in the United States and Italy handedly re-kindled interest in the music of the Four Seasons is accompanied by a descriptive sonnet, Malipiero with the hope that he might shed light on the remaining concertos in Opus 8 were recorded at the Zurich Dolder Hotel Ballroom, with members of the Zurich from 1926 to 1933. Relocating to the West Coast in eighteenth-century Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi. perhaps by Vivaldi himself. The lines of these sonnets whereabouts of the elusive eight concertos. When the Radio Symphony and the Zurich Symphony Orchestra, combined together as the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra. 1933, Louis and his new wife Annette (Leibole), an Not only did that recording (initially a pressing of three appear throughout the score at appropriate places and Kaufmans finally met Malipiero at his estate in The dates are as follows: 4th August, 1950 (Concertos Nos. 5, 9, 10, 11, and the Largo from Concerto No. 12); 5th accomplished pianist, settled in Los Angeles (1934). thousand copies) go around the world, but its impact on further indicate descriptive passages by inserting titles Northern Italy, he confirmed that an early edition of August, 1950 (second movements of the remaining concertos, the fast movements of Concerto No. 12, and the first The Kaufmans began broadcasting weekly recitals in twentieth-century culture continues to this day. For the such as The Fleeing Prey, The Barking Dog, The Vivaldi’s of Opus 8 could be located in Brussels. movement Allegro of Concerto No. 8); 8th August, 1950 (Concertos Nos. 6, 7, and the remaining movements of Los Angeles over Station KFI and were heard by movie last fifty years, advertisers have borrowed music from Sleeping Drunk, and others. Malipiero then suggested that the Kaufmans search in Concerto No. 8). The tapes were edited and assembled on 18th August, 1950. The Concerto in D major (RV513) producer Ernst Lubitsch, who engaged him to record The Four Seasons to pitch every conceivable product Louis Kaufman’s association with the music of the Netherlands, as much of Vivaldi’s music was for two violins, was recorded with violinist Peter Rybar (1913-2002) joining Louis Kaufman and the Winterthur violin solos for the movie The Merry Widow (1934); it from diamonds and furs to gourmet foods and exotic Vivaldi was a matter of chance. Early in 1947 James published there, helped by Paul Collaer, music section Chamber Orchestra conducted by Clemens Dahinden (who also conducted Opus 8, Nos. 5-12). The sessions took would be the first of many assignments in Hollywood. cars. Somehow when an advertiser needed to reinforce Fassett, Music Director of the Columbia Broadcasting head of Radio Flamande in Brussels. place at the same ballroom in Zurich in August 1950. All of these recordings were originally issued commercially Interestingly, Kaufman’s recorded legacy goes as far cultural taste or elevate a product to world-class status, system, asked Kaufman to perform four new Vivaldi The Kaufmans set off for Brussels before the on the Concert Hall Society and Chamber Music Society record labels. The Four Seasons received the Grand Prix back as the 1920s, when he made his first recording for Maestro Vivaldi would happily come to mind as a concertos recently issued by a Milanese publisher. summer vacation season closed all the public du Disque in 1950, in 2002 was inducted in the Grammy® Hall of Fame, and in 2003 was selected by the Library the Gennett and Edison labels. This romance with the logical choice of good taste. And yet, even with this Kaufman agreed to the broadcast (June, 1948) but in the institutions. Upon reaching Brussels they contacted of Congress for inclusion in its National Recording Registry.

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Great Violinists: Louis Kaufman: VIVALDI: Twelve Concertos for Violin and Strings, Op. 8 over-saturation and exploitation, Vivaldi’s music still meantime he was asked by Sam Josefowitz, owner of Paul Collaer who referred them to the Royal Music as a discovery of a missing early Vivaldi work was in continues to remain fresh, exuberant, and engaging. the newly formed Concert Hall Records, for repertoire Conservatory of Brussels library. At that time Kaufman fact a re-discovery of an early Vivaldi work that had The American violinist Louis Kaufman was microphone would continue on an additional 27 labels The son of a violinist who played at the Basilica of recommendations for solo violin concertos with a small found the first published edition that consisted of been overlooked through the cumbersome system of undoubtedly among the most recorded violinists of this through the 1970s. In 1948 the Kaufmans moved to San Marco in Venice, the younger Vivaldi was ordained orchestra – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons seemed a perfect fit. published parts for all twelve concertos. The Kaufmans cataloguing of works in European libraries. century. In a career that spanned nearly seven decades, Europe, making Paris their home base. The next eight to the priesthood in 1703, and was appointed violin During the last week of 1947 Kaufman recorded the ordered a microfilm copy, not believing their good luck. Louis Kaufman recorded the balance of Opus 8 for he made over 150 major recordings of his classical years saw a multitude of performances including master at the Ospedale della Pietà, the beginning of a Four Seasons at Carnegie Hall with the conductor At the time many European libraries filed their material Concert Hall Records in Switzerland in 1950. In the repertoire, and was heard as concertmaster in over five premières of violin concertos by Martinů (Concerto da long association. According to a contemporary Henry Swoboda, harpsichordist Edith Weiss-Mann, by year of acquisition, so searching for a particular following years, Kaufman would organize all-Vivaldi hundred movie soundtracks between 1934 and 1948, Camera), Anthony Collins, Lars-Erik Larsson, Henri observer, Charles des Brosses, who was in Venice in organist Edouard Nies-Berger, and members of the score could often be a frustrating experience. concerts in Paris, London, and New York, helping to including Gone With The Wind (1939), Show Boat Sauguet, Dag Wiren, Leighton Lucas, and Milhaud’s 1739-40, “The Ospedali have the best music in Venice. string section of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Soon after returning to Paris, the Kaufmans met a re-launch Vivaldi to the preeminent status he enjoys (1936), Modern Times (1936), Dodsworth (1936), Second Concerto and Concertino de Printemps under There are four of them all for illegitimate or orphaned Because of a forthcoming recording strike in the United friend for lunch who happened to be a correspondent for today. Wuthering Heights (1939), The Magnificent Ambersons the composer’s baton. During this period Kaufman was girls whose parents cannot support them. They are States scheduled for 1st January, 1948, Kaufman the Continental Daily Mail (an English newspaper (1942), Intermezzo (1939) and The Treasure of Sierra awarded the Grand Prix du Disque for his recording of brought up at the State’s expense and trained recorded the concertos after midnight (in the closing published in Paris). She published their saga and several Lance Bowling Madre (1948). Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the conductor Henry exclusively in music. Indeed, they sing like angels, play days of 1947), so booked were the recording venues in English and American newspapers picked up the story Born in Portland, Oregon in 1905, Kaufman’s early Swoboda. In 1950 he suggested to the Town Hall Music the violin, flute, oboe, cello, bassoon – in short, no New York City. The record was released in early 1948 including Time magazine. What was hailed (at the time) studies were with Frank Eichenlaub and Henry Committee in New York City a first USA Vivaldi instrument is large enough to frighten them. They are with programme notes by the San Francisco Bettman. By the age of ten, he was travelling on the Festival to honour the composer’s 275th birthday in two cloistered like nuns. The performances are entirely their musicologist Alfred Frankenstein. From those notes Producers’ Note Western Pantages Vaudeville Circuit as assisting artist concerts. Through the years Louis Kaufman was most own and each concert is composed of about forty Kaufman was surprised to discover that the The Four to the dancer Rozika. In 1918 he went to New York City supportive of American composers. He recorded girls...” Seasons were part of a group that included an additional This re-issue and restoration project would not have been possible without the generous assistance and cooperation to enter the violin class of the renowned teacher Franz Copland’s Violin Sonata with the composer at the During Vivaldi’s years with the Pietà, intermittently eight concertos, at the time unlocated. of the Louis Kaufman Estate and, his widow, Dr Annette Kaufman. Additional source materials were provided by Kneisel (1865-1926) at the Institute of Musical Art. piano, works by Robert Russell Bennett, Samuel Barber from 1703 until 1740, his opera and instrumental In late 1948 the Kaufmans let their Hollywood Lance Bowling, Richard Wahlberg, and the Encore Archives in San Rafael, California. During the 1920s Kaufman took up the viola and often (the first recorded performance of the Violin Concerto), production was enormous, although it now seems that home and moved to Europe to perform, and to record As source materials for this project, we were given test pressings, master discs, and numerous copies of the played chamber music at private parties with Elman, Ernest Toch, William Grant Still, Walter Piston and approximately half of Vivaldi’s total output has been new repertoire for Concert Hall Records; the birth of the various versions of the commercial pressings of these concertos. The blue and red album versions of The Four Casals, Hofmann, Zimbalist, Heifetz and Kreisler. In many others. Just before his death in February 1994, he lost. This means that he produced some four hundred LP record was on the horizon. Another mission was to Seasons, which contained vinyl and shellac pressings, as well as acetate test pressings and re-issued long-play 1927 he graduated from the Institute of Musical Art completed his autobiography with his wife of sixty years, concertos during his years with the Pietà. His best see what other Vivaldi might be suitable to record and versions were compared and contrasted. The very best sounding movements were carefully selected for this, first with highest honours, winning the Loeb Prize; the Annette. A Fiddler’s Tale was published by the known works are the four concertos which he entitled to try to locate the additional eight concertos of Opus 8. ever, authorized CD re-issue of these works. Although many of the commercial versions were less than acceptable, following year he won the famed Naumberg Award. In University of Wisconsin Press in 2003. In 2002 Louis Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons). These Just before leaving Los Angeles, the Kaufmans were the source materials from the Louis Kaufman Estate allowed us to present the concertos in surprisingly good sound the same year (1928), he made his New York City Kaufman’s recording of The Four Seasons was concertos are the first four in a set of twelve which he introduced to Dario Soria, head of Cetra-Soria Records, for the period. Town Hall début, which launched his solo concert inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. called Il Cimento dell’ Armonia e dell’ Inventione (The who encouraged them in their pursuit of the Vivaldi career that would last nearly fifty years. An original It is remarkable that Louis Kaufman’s mid-century, Contest between Harmony and Invention) and scores and also wrote them a letter of introduction to the Recording Dates and Details member of the Musical Art String Quartet (as violist), première recording of The Four Seasons, single- published as his Opus 8 in 1725. Each concerto in The Italian musicologist-composer Gian Francesco The Four Seasons were recorded on 25th, 30th, and 31st December, 1947, at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The he toured with that group in the United States and Italy handedly re-kindled interest in the music of the Four Seasons is accompanied by a descriptive sonnet, Malipiero with the hope that he might shed light on the remaining concertos in Opus 8 were recorded at the Zurich Dolder Hotel Ballroom, with members of the Zurich from 1926 to 1933. Relocating to the West Coast in eighteenth-century Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi. perhaps by Vivaldi himself. The lines of these sonnets whereabouts of the elusive eight concertos. When the Radio Symphony and the Zurich Symphony Orchestra, combined together as the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra. 1933, Louis and his new wife Annette (Leibole), an Not only did that recording (initially a pressing of three appear throughout the score at appropriate places and Kaufmans finally met Malipiero at his estate in The dates are as follows: 4th August, 1950 (Concertos Nos. 5, 9, 10, 11, and the Largo from Concerto No. 12); 5th accomplished pianist, settled in Los Angeles (1934). thousand copies) go around the world, but its impact on further indicate descriptive passages by inserting titles Northern Italy, he confirmed that an early edition of August, 1950 (second movements of the remaining concertos, the fast movements of Concerto No. 12, and the first The Kaufmans began broadcasting weekly recitals in twentieth-century culture continues to this day. For the such as The Fleeing Prey, The Barking Dog, The Vivaldi’s of Opus 8 could be located in Brussels. movement Allegro of Concerto No. 8); 8th August, 1950 (Concertos Nos. 6, 7, and the remaining movements of Los Angeles over Station KFI and were heard by movie last fifty years, advertisers have borrowed music from Sleeping Drunk, and others. Malipiero then suggested that the Kaufmans search in Concerto No. 8). The tapes were edited and assembled on 18th August, 1950. The Concerto in D major (RV513) producer Ernst Lubitsch, who engaged him to record The Four Seasons to pitch every conceivable product Louis Kaufman’s association with the music of the Netherlands, as much of Vivaldi’s music was for two violins, was recorded with violinist Peter Rybar (1913-2002) joining Louis Kaufman and the Winterthur violin solos for the movie The Merry Widow (1934); it from diamonds and furs to gourmet foods and exotic Vivaldi was a matter of chance. Early in 1947 James published there, helped by Paul Collaer, music section Chamber Orchestra conducted by Clemens Dahinden (who also conducted Opus 8, Nos. 5-12). The sessions took would be the first of many assignments in Hollywood. cars. Somehow when an advertiser needed to reinforce Fassett, Music Director of the Columbia Broadcasting head of Radio Flamande in Brussels. place at the same ballroom in Zurich in August 1950. All of these recordings were originally issued commercially Interestingly, Kaufman’s recorded legacy goes as far cultural taste or elevate a product to world-class status, system, asked Kaufman to perform four new Vivaldi The Kaufmans set off for Brussels before the on the Concert Hall Society and Chamber Music Society record labels. The Four Seasons received the Grand Prix back as the 1920s, when he made his first recording for Maestro Vivaldi would happily come to mind as a concertos recently issued by a Milanese publisher. summer vacation season closed all the public du Disque in 1950, in 2002 was inducted in the Grammy® Hall of Fame, and in 2003 was selected by the Library the Gennett and Edison labels. This romance with the logical choice of good taste. And yet, even with this Kaufman agreed to the broadcast (June, 1948) but in the institutions. Upon reaching Brussels they contacted of Congress for inclusion in its National Recording Registry.

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Great Violinists: Louis Kaufman: VIVALDI: Twelve Concertos for Violin and Strings, Op. 8 over-saturation and exploitation, Vivaldi’s music still meantime he was asked by Sam Josefowitz, owner of Paul Collaer who referred them to the Royal Music as a discovery of a missing early Vivaldi work was in continues to remain fresh, exuberant, and engaging. the newly formed Concert Hall Records, for repertoire Conservatory of Brussels library. At that time Kaufman fact a re-discovery of an early Vivaldi work that had The American violinist Louis Kaufman was microphone would continue on an additional 27 labels The son of a violinist who played at the Basilica of recommendations for solo violin concertos with a small found the first published edition that consisted of been overlooked through the cumbersome system of undoubtedly among the most recorded violinists of this through the 1970s. In 1948 the Kaufmans moved to San Marco in Venice, the younger Vivaldi was ordained orchestra – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons seemed a perfect fit. published parts for all twelve concertos. The Kaufmans cataloguing of works in European libraries. century. In a career that spanned nearly seven decades, Europe, making Paris their home base. The next eight to the priesthood in 1703, and was appointed violin During the last week of 1947 Kaufman recorded the ordered a microfilm copy, not believing their good luck. Louis Kaufman recorded the balance of Opus 8 for he made over 150 major recordings of his classical years saw a multitude of performances including master at the Ospedale della Pietà, the beginning of a Four Seasons at Carnegie Hall with the conductor At the time many European libraries filed their material Concert Hall Records in Switzerland in 1950. In the repertoire, and was heard as concertmaster in over five premières of violin concertos by Martinů (Concerto da long association. According to a contemporary Henry Swoboda, harpsichordist Edith Weiss-Mann, by year of acquisition, so searching for a particular following years, Kaufman would organize all-Vivaldi hundred movie soundtracks between 1934 and 1948, Camera), Anthony Collins, Lars-Erik Larsson, Henri observer, Charles des Brosses, who was in Venice in organist Edouard Nies-Berger, and members of the score could often be a frustrating experience. concerts in Paris, London, and New York, helping to including Gone With The Wind (1939), Show Boat Sauguet, Dag Wiren, Leighton Lucas, and Milhaud’s 1739-40, “The Ospedali have the best music in Venice. string section of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Soon after returning to Paris, the Kaufmans met a re-launch Vivaldi to the preeminent status he enjoys (1936), Modern Times (1936), Dodsworth (1936), Second Concerto and Concertino de Printemps under There are four of them all for illegitimate or orphaned Because of a forthcoming recording strike in the United friend for lunch who happened to be a correspondent for today. Wuthering Heights (1939), The Magnificent Ambersons the composer’s baton. During this period Kaufman was girls whose parents cannot support them. They are States scheduled for 1st January, 1948, Kaufman the Continental Daily Mail (an English newspaper (1942), Intermezzo (1939) and The Treasure of Sierra awarded the Grand Prix du Disque for his recording of brought up at the State’s expense and trained recorded the concertos after midnight (in the closing published in Paris). She published their saga and several Lance Bowling Madre (1948). Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the conductor Henry exclusively in music. Indeed, they sing like angels, play days of 1947), so booked were the recording venues in English and American newspapers picked up the story Born in Portland, Oregon in 1905, Kaufman’s early Swoboda. In 1950 he suggested to the Town Hall Music the violin, flute, oboe, cello, bassoon – in short, no New York City. The record was released in early 1948 including Time magazine. What was hailed (at the time) studies were with Frank Eichenlaub and Henry Committee in New York City a first USA Vivaldi instrument is large enough to frighten them. They are with programme notes by the San Francisco Bettman. By the age of ten, he was travelling on the Festival to honour the composer’s 275th birthday in two cloistered like nuns. The performances are entirely their musicologist Alfred Frankenstein. From those notes Producers’ Note Western Pantages Vaudeville Circuit as assisting artist concerts. Through the years Louis Kaufman was most own and each concert is composed of about forty Kaufman was surprised to discover that the The Four to the dancer Rozika. In 1918 he went to New York City supportive of American composers. He recorded girls...” Seasons were part of a group that included an additional This re-issue and restoration project would not have been possible without the generous assistance and cooperation to enter the violin class of the renowned teacher Franz Copland’s Violin Sonata with the composer at the During Vivaldi’s years with the Pietà, intermittently eight concertos, at the time unlocated. of the Louis Kaufman Estate and, his widow, Dr Annette Kaufman. Additional source materials were provided by Kneisel (1865-1926) at the Institute of Musical Art. piano, works by Robert Russell Bennett, Samuel Barber from 1703 until 1740, his opera and instrumental In late 1948 the Kaufmans let their Hollywood Lance Bowling, Richard Wahlberg, and the Encore Archives in San Rafael, California. During the 1920s Kaufman took up the viola and often (the first recorded performance of the Violin Concerto), production was enormous, although it now seems that home and moved to Europe to perform, and to record As source materials for this project, we were given test pressings, master discs, and numerous copies of the played chamber music at private parties with Elman, Ernest Toch, William Grant Still, Walter Piston and approximately half of Vivaldi’s total output has been new repertoire for Concert Hall Records; the birth of the various versions of the commercial pressings of these concertos. The blue and red album versions of The Four Casals, Hofmann, Zimbalist, Heifetz and Kreisler. In many others. Just before his death in February 1994, he lost. This means that he produced some four hundred LP record was on the horizon. Another mission was to Seasons, which contained vinyl and shellac pressings, as well as acetate test pressings and re-issued long-play 1927 he graduated from the Institute of Musical Art completed his autobiography with his wife of sixty years, concertos during his years with the Pietà. His best see what other Vivaldi might be suitable to record and versions were compared and contrasted. The very best sounding movements were carefully selected for this, first with highest honours, winning the Loeb Prize; the Annette. A Fiddler’s Tale was published by the known works are the four concertos which he entitled to try to locate the additional eight concertos of Opus 8. ever, authorized CD re-issue of these works. Although many of the commercial versions were less than acceptable, following year he won the famed Naumberg Award. In University of Wisconsin Press in 2003. In 2002 Louis Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons). These Just before leaving Los Angeles, the Kaufmans were the source materials from the Louis Kaufman Estate allowed us to present the concertos in surprisingly good sound the same year (1928), he made his New York City Kaufman’s recording of The Four Seasons was concertos are the first four in a set of twelve which he introduced to Dario Soria, head of Cetra-Soria Records, for the period. Town Hall début, which launched his solo concert inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. called Il Cimento dell’ Armonia e dell’ Inventione (The who encouraged them in their pursuit of the Vivaldi career that would last nearly fifty years. An original It is remarkable that Louis Kaufman’s mid-century, Contest between Harmony and Invention) and scores and also wrote them a letter of introduction to the Recording Dates and Details member of the Musical Art String Quartet (as violist), première recording of The Four Seasons, single- published as his Opus 8 in 1725. Each concerto in The Italian musicologist-composer Gian Francesco The Four Seasons were recorded on 25th, 30th, and 31st December, 1947, at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The he toured with that group in the United States and Italy handedly re-kindled interest in the music of the Four Seasons is accompanied by a descriptive sonnet, Malipiero with the hope that he might shed light on the remaining concertos in Opus 8 were recorded at the Zurich Dolder Hotel Ballroom, with members of the Zurich from 1926 to 1933. Relocating to the West Coast in eighteenth-century Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi. perhaps by Vivaldi himself. The lines of these sonnets whereabouts of the elusive eight concertos. When the Radio Symphony and the Zurich Symphony Orchestra, combined together as the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra. 1933, Louis and his new wife Annette (Leibole), an Not only did that recording (initially a pressing of three appear throughout the score at appropriate places and Kaufmans finally met Malipiero at his estate in The dates are as follows: 4th August, 1950 (Concertos Nos. 5, 9, 10, 11, and the Largo from Concerto No. 12); 5th accomplished pianist, settled in Los Angeles (1934). thousand copies) go around the world, but its impact on further indicate descriptive passages by inserting titles Northern Italy, he confirmed that an early edition of August, 1950 (second movements of the remaining concertos, the fast movements of Concerto No. 12, and the first The Kaufmans began broadcasting weekly recitals in twentieth-century culture continues to this day. For the such as The Fleeing Prey, The Barking Dog, The Vivaldi’s of Opus 8 could be located in Brussels. movement Allegro of Concerto No. 8); 8th August, 1950 (Concertos Nos. 6, 7, and the remaining movements of Los Angeles over Station KFI and were heard by movie last fifty years, advertisers have borrowed music from Sleeping Drunk, and others. Malipiero then suggested that the Kaufmans search in Concerto No. 8). The tapes were edited and assembled on 18th August, 1950. The Concerto in D major (RV513) producer Ernst Lubitsch, who engaged him to record The Four Seasons to pitch every conceivable product Louis Kaufman’s association with the music of the Netherlands, as much of Vivaldi’s music was for two violins, was recorded with violinist Peter Rybar (1913-2002) joining Louis Kaufman and the Winterthur violin solos for the movie The Merry Widow (1934); it from diamonds and furs to gourmet foods and exotic Vivaldi was a matter of chance. Early in 1947 James published there, helped by Paul Collaer, music section Chamber Orchestra conducted by Clemens Dahinden (who also conducted Opus 8, Nos. 5-12). The sessions took would be the first of many assignments in Hollywood. cars. Somehow when an advertiser needed to reinforce Fassett, Music Director of the Columbia Broadcasting head of Radio Flamande in Brussels. place at the same ballroom in Zurich in August 1950. All of these recordings were originally issued commercially Interestingly, Kaufman’s recorded legacy goes as far cultural taste or elevate a product to world-class status, system, asked Kaufman to perform four new Vivaldi The Kaufmans set off for Brussels before the on the Concert Hall Society and Chamber Music Society record labels. The Four Seasons received the Grand Prix back as the 1920s, when he made his first recording for Maestro Vivaldi would happily come to mind as a concertos recently issued by a Milanese publisher. summer vacation season closed all the public du Disque in 1950, in 2002 was inducted in the Grammy® Hall of Fame, and in 2003 was selected by the Library the Gennett and Edison labels. This romance with the logical choice of good taste. And yet, even with this Kaufman agreed to the broadcast (June, 1948) but in the institutions. Upon reaching Brussels they contacted of Congress for inclusion in its National Recording Registry.

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Great Violinists: Louis Kaufman: VIVALDI: Twelve Concertos for Violin and Strings, Op. 8 Great Violinists: Louis Kaufman: VIVALDI: Twelve Concertos for Violin and Strings, Op. 8 ADD CD1 63:51 CD2 62:43 Great Violinists • Kaufman 8.110297-98 Concerto No. 1 in E major, Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Concerto No. 8 in G minor, RV332 9:39 Concerto for Two Violins ‘La primavera’, RV269 9:29 ‘La tempesta di mare’, RV253 9:21 1 Allegro 3:00 in D major, RV513 1 Allegro 3:05 # Presto 3:21 2 Largo 2:55 (Peter Rybar, Second Violin) 15:06 2 Largo 2:57 $ Largo 2:21 3 Allegro 3:44 ^ Allegro molto 6:17 2 CDs 3 Allegro 3:27 % Presto 3:40 & Andante 3:06 VIVALDI Concerto No. 9 in D minor, RV236 8:26 * Allegro 5:45 Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Concerto No. 6 in C major, 4 Allegro 3:31 ‘L’estate’, RV315 9:56 ‘Il piacere’, RV180 8:22 5 Largo 2:06 Tracks ^-* were recorded in Zurich, Switzerland in Twelve Concertos for Violin and Strings, Op. 8 4 Allegro non molto 3:17 ^ Allegro 3:11 6 Allegro 2:48 August 1950. The Winterthur Symphony Orchestra 5 Adagio - Presto 3:46 & Largo e cantabile 2:17 was conducted by Clemens Dahinden. (Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione) 6 Presto 2:54 * Allegro 2:54 Concerto No. 10 in B flat major, (First issued as Concert Hall Society Release E-2 ‘La caccia’, RV362 8:03 [CHEL-2 PT1 and ERKL 0245AR]) including the first ever recording of Concerto No. 3 in F major, Concerto No. 7 in D minor, RV242 7:54 7 Allegro 3:26 ‘L’autunno’, RV293 10:03 ( Allegro 2:51 8 Adagio 2:12 7 Allegro 4:14 ) Largo 2:00 9 Allegro 2:26 The Four Seasons 8 Adagio 2:40 ¡ Allegro 3:05 9 Allegro 3:09 Concerto No. 11 in D major, RV210 12:40 Louis Kaufman, Violin 0 Allegro 4:54 Concert Hall Chamber Orchestra • Henry Swoboda Concerto No. 4 in F minor, ! Largo 2:40 ‘L’inverno’, RV297 8:07 @ Allegro 5:07 The Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Zurich • Clemens Dahinden 0 Allegro non molto 3:23 ! Largo 2:13 Concerto No. 12 in C major, RV178 8:48 @ Presto 2:31 # Allegro 3:04 $ Largo 2:26 Tracks 1-@ were recorded on 25th, 30th and 31st Tracks #-¡ were recorded in Zurich, Switzerland, on % Allegro 3:17 December, 1947 at Carnegie Hall, New York. 4th, 5th and 8th August, 1950. The Winterthur The Concert Hall Chamber Orchestra was conducted Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Clemens Tracks 1-% were recorded in Zurich, Switzerland on by Henry Swoboda, joined by organist Edouard Nies- Dahinden. 4th, 5th and 8th August, 1950. Berger and harpsichordist Edith Weiss-Mann. The Winterthur Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Clemens Dahinden. (First issued as Concert Hall Society Set AR Volumes (First issued as Concert Hall Society CHS1064 Louis Kaufman, The Concert Hall Chamber Orchestra and Henry Swoboda during the recording of ‘The Four Seasons’, I and II [375-3[4] [1375], 376-9 [1376], 377-7[8] [CM18PT1N1A]) (First issued as Concert Hall Society CHS1064 at Carnegie Hall in December, 1947 (by kind permission) [1377], 378-9[10] [1378], 379-10 [11] [1379], [CM18PT2N2A & PT3N1A]) 380-1[3] [1380], 381-3[5] [1381], 382-1[3 & 10] [1382], 383-3[11] [1383], 384-10[11 & 13] [1384], 385-3[6 & 11] [1385], 386-3 [6] [1386], and CHC-1 [BL-11441 & BL11442])

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Great Violinists: Louis Kaufman: VIVALDI: Twelve Concertos for Violin and Strings, Op. 8 Great Violinists: Louis Kaufman: VIVALDI: Twelve Concertos for Violin and Strings, Op. 8 ADD CD1 63:51 CD2 62:43 Great Violinists • Kaufman 8.110297-98 Concerto No. 1 in E major, Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Concerto No. 8 in G minor, RV332 9:39 Concerto for Two Violins ‘La primavera’, RV269 9:29 ‘La tempesta di mare’, RV253 9:21 1 Allegro 3:00 in D major, RV513 1 Allegro 3:05 # Presto 3:21 2 Largo 2:55 (Peter Rybar, Second Violin) 15:06 2 Largo 2:57 $ Largo 2:21 3 Allegro 3:44 ^ Allegro molto 6:17 2 CDs 3 Allegro 3:27 % Presto 3:40 & Andante 3:06 VIVALDI Concerto No. 9 in D minor, RV236 8:26 * Allegro 5:45 Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Concerto No. 6 in C major, 4 Allegro 3:31 ‘L’estate’, RV315 9:56 ‘Il piacere’, RV180 8:22 5 Largo 2:06 Tracks ^-* were recorded in Zurich, Switzerland in Twelve Concertos for Violin and Strings, Op. 8 4 Allegro non molto 3:17 ^ Allegro 3:11 6 Allegro 2:48 August 1950. The Winterthur Symphony Orchestra 5 Adagio - Presto 3:46 & Largo e cantabile 2:17 was conducted by Clemens Dahinden. (Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione) 6 Presto 2:54 * Allegro 2:54 Concerto No. 10 in B flat major, (First issued as Concert Hall Society Release E-2 ‘La caccia’, RV362 8:03 [CHEL-2 PT1 and ERKL 0245AR]) including the first ever recording of Concerto No. 3 in F major, Concerto No. 7 in D minor, RV242 7:54 7 Allegro 3:26 ‘L’autunno’, RV293 10:03 ( Allegro 2:51 8 Adagio 2:12 7 Allegro 4:14 ) Largo 2:00 9 Allegro 2:26 The Four Seasons 8 Adagio 2:40 ¡ Allegro 3:05 9 Allegro 3:09 Concerto No. 11 in D major, RV210 12:40 Louis Kaufman, Violin 0 Allegro 4:54 Concert Hall Chamber Orchestra • Henry Swoboda Concerto No. 4 in F minor, ! Largo 2:40 ‘L’inverno’, RV297 8:07 @ Allegro 5:07 The Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Zurich • Clemens Dahinden 0 Allegro non molto 3:23 ! Largo 2:13 Concerto No. 12 in C major, RV178 8:48 @ Presto 2:31 # Allegro 3:04 $ Largo 2:26 Tracks 1-@ were recorded on 25th, 30th and 31st Tracks #-¡ were recorded in Zurich, Switzerland, on % Allegro 3:17 December, 1947 at Carnegie Hall, New York. 4th, 5th and 8th August, 1950. The Winterthur The Concert Hall Chamber Orchestra was conducted Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Clemens Tracks 1-% were recorded in Zurich, Switzerland on by Henry Swoboda, joined by organist Edouard Nies- Dahinden. 4th, 5th and 8th August, 1950. Berger and harpsichordist Edith Weiss-Mann. The Winterthur Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Clemens Dahinden. (First issued as Concert Hall Society Set AR Volumes (First issued as Concert Hall Society CHS1064 Louis Kaufman, The Concert Hall Chamber Orchestra and Henry Swoboda during the recording of ‘The Four Seasons’, I and II [375-3[4] [1375], 376-9 [1376], 377-7[8] [CM18PT1N1A]) (First issued as Concert Hall Society CHS1064 at Carnegie Hall in December, 1947 (by kind permission) [1377], 378-9[10] [1378], 379-10 [11] [1379], [CM18PT2N2A & PT3N1A]) 380-1[3] [1380], 381-3[5] [1381], 382-1[3 & 10] [1382], 383-3[11] [1383], 384-10[11 & 13] [1384], 385-3[6 & 11] [1385], 386-3 [6] [1386], and CHC-1 [BL-11441 & BL11442])

8.110297-98 5 6 8.110297-98 NAXOS Historical KAUFMAN • VIVALDI : The Four Seasons 8.110297-98 2 37:36 Time , and later, 126:34 Playing 12972 Rebecca , 36943 6 Gone With the Wind , was the first ever to be made, winning him the was the first ever to be made, Antonio (1678-1741) VIVALDI Mutiny on the Bounty (First ever recording) The Four Seasons 1 age Louis Kaufman (1905-1994) Kaufman Louis P (Tracks 13-21 [CD1] and 1-18 [CD2]) , August, 1950 [CD1] and 1-18 [CD2]) (Tracks 13-21 Winterthur Symphony Orchestra • Clemens Dahinden Orchestra • Clemens Winterthur Symphony pm 46 : Concert Hall Chamber Orchestra • Henry Swoboda (Tracks 1-12) [CD1] , December, 1947 Swoboda (Tracks 1-12) Chamber Orchestra • Henry Concert Hall Concerto No. 10 in B flat major, ‘La caccia’ (The Hunt), RV362Concerto No. 10 in B flat RV210Concerto No. 11 in D major, RV178Concerto No. 12 in C major, in D major, RV513 (Peter Rybar, Second Violin)Concerto for Two Violins 15:06 8:03 12:40 8:48 The Four Seasons, Op. 8 Nos. 1-4 The Four Seasons, tempesta di mare’, RV253 5 in E flat major, ‘La Concerto No. RV180 6 in C major, ‘Il piacere’, Concerto No. RV242Concerto No. 7 in D minor, RV332Concerto No. 8 in G minor, RV236Concerto No. 9 in D minor, 9:21 8:22 7:54 9:39 8:26 ADD . Amazingly, his 1947 recording of . Amazingly, his 1947 recording 8.110297-98 9 @ % * @ % * ¡ 3 6 ------11/11/04 8 11/11/04 www.naxos.com A complete tracklist can be found on pages 5 and 6 of the booklet A complete tracklist can be found on pages 5 and Restoration Producers: Victor and Marina Ledin Restoration Engineer: Anthony Casuccio Kaufman Estate Special thanks to Dr. Annette Kaufman and the Louis kind permission) Cover and Page 6 Photographs: Louis Kaufman (by Psycho Louis Kaufman was famed during the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s as one of the great soloists and concertmasters during the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s as one of the Louis Kaufman was famed recordings, Kaufman played film studio. In addition to over 150 major classical of the concert hall and the scores, including in many of the classic film coveted Grand Prix du Disque in 1950, earning a place in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002 and almost in 1950, earning a place in the Grammy coveted Grand Prix du Disque single-handedly reviving interest in Vivaldi’s music. CD2: 7 0 # ^ CD1: 1 # ^ ( 1 4 ay l n

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