110993 bk Powell4 EU 20/09/2004 12:33pm Page 8 Also available: Great Violinists • Maud Powell ADD 8.110993 Maud POWELL The Complete Recordings 1904 - 1917, Vol. 4 Includes: 8.110961 8.110962 BOROWSKI: Adoration WIENIAWSKI: Capriccio Waltz GLUCK: Mélodie VIEUXTEMPS: St Patrick’s Day Maud Powell, violin 8.110963 George Falkenstein, piano 8.110993 8 110993 bk Powell4 EU 20/09/2004 12:33pm Page 2 Maud Powell (1867 - 1920) Producer’s Note The emergence of electrical recording in 1925 together with Maud Powell’s untimely death in 1920 contributed The Complete 1904 - 1917 Recordings, Vol. 4 to Victor’s deletion of her recordings from its catalogue in the mid-1920s. Powell became the first solo violinist to record for the Victor Company in 1904. Volumes 1-3 of Naxos’ Maud Powell, The Complete Recordings, 1904- BOCCHERINI (1743-1806) - POWELL Matrix / Take Catalogue Number Date 1917 represent nearly the full range of music Powell recorded. Volume 4, which includes her earliest recordings, 1 Quintet in E major, Op. 13, No. 5: Tempo di Menuetto C-13727-2 74354 9/9/13 reflects the fact that Powell re-recorded some pieces several times through the years as the technology improved. GLUCK (1714-1787) - POWELL Thirty of Powell’s recordings were never published by Victor, including several made in 1919 a few days before 2 Orphée et Eurydice: Mélodie B-4670-1 64075 7/11/07 she died. Among these, La bohème Potpourri was reproduced on Volume 3 from the metal master. We are very GLUCK (1714-1787) - POWELL grateful to David Schmutz for giving us the rare test pressing of Borowski’s Adoration for Volume 4. Aside from 3 Orphée et Eurydice: Mélodie B-4670-4 64075 6/5/16 the remaining unpublished recordings, Volumes 1-4 represent Maud Powell’s entire recorded output. We wish to MOZART (1756-1791) thank those who loaned us records to make this volume possible: Dr. John R. Bolig; David Budd; John Maltese; 4 Divertimento No. 17 in D major, K. 334: Minuet B-4668-3 64073 7/11/07 John Anthony Maltese; the Collections of the Johnson Victrola Museum, Ann Baker Horsey, Curator, Delaware SCHUBERT (1797-1828) State Museums, Dover, Delaware. Copies of some records were obtained from The Maud Powell Society collection 5 Ave Maria C-15014-1 74177 6/25/14 in the Library of Congress and also The Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings, Yale University Music MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847) Library. We thank Richard Warren, curator at Yale, and also John Bolig and Ann Baker Horsey for their extra 6 Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64: Finale C-1911-1 85040 11/8/04 efforts and wholehearted assistance. We thank Ward Marston, who has been restoring Powell’s recorded legacy MASSENET (1842-1912) since 1988, for re-mastering the original shellac pressings for this final volume. Employing digital technology with 7 Thaïs: Méditation C-15051-2 74135 7/10/14 consummate skill, he has managed to allow Powell’s violin tone to emerge in all its fullness. VIEUXTEMPS (1820-1881) 8 Bouquet américain, Op. 33: St Patrick’s Day C-1897-1 85039 11/4/04 WIENIAWSKI (1835-1880) 9 Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22: C-9009-3 74179 5/27/10 Second Movement - Romance WIENIAWSKI (1835-1880) Ward Marston 0 Capriccio Valse, Op. 7 C-9033-1 74173 5/27/10 SCHUBERT (1808-1878) According to the Chicago Tribune, Ward Marston’s name is ‘synonymous with tender loving care to collectors ! The Bee B-4671-2 64076 7/11/07 of historical CDs’. In 1996 Marston received the Gramophone award for Historical Vocal Recording of the Year, CHOPIN (1810-1849) - POWELL honouring his production and engineering work on Romophone’s complete recordings of Lucrezia Bori. He also @ Minute Waltz, Op. 64, No.1 B-4671-2 64076 7/11/07 served as re-recording engineer for the Franklin Mint’s Arturo Toscanini issue and BMG’s Sergey Rachmaninov SAURET (1852-1920) recordings, both winners of the Best Historical Album Grammy. Born blind in 1952, Ward Marston has amassed # Farfalla, Op. 40, No. 3 (Will-o’-the-wisp) C-9008-4 74183 6/6/16 tens of thousands of opera classical records over the past four decades. Following a stint in radio he became well- BOISDEFFRE (1834-1906) known as a reissue producer in 1979, when he restored the earliest known stereo recording made by the Bell $ Au bord d’un ruisseau (At the Brook), Op. 52 B-7099-3 64103 5/20/09 Telephone Laboratories in 1932. Ward Marston has produced records for a number of major and specialist record NERUDA (1843-1915) companies and is now bringing his distinctive sonic vision to bear on recordings released on the Naxos Historical % Slavonic Cradle Song, Op. 11 B-1898-1 81051 11/4/04 label. Ultimately his goal is to make the music he remasters sound as natural as possible and true to life by ‘lifting the voices’ off his old 78rpm recordings. 8.110993 2 7 8.110993 110993 bk Powell4 EU 20/09/2004 12:33pm Page 6 NERUDA (1843-1915) perfect accord. Amazed and ecstatic, Mahler stepped without faith and enthusiasm.” One of her good friends Matrix / Take Catalogue Number Date ^ Slavonic Cradle Song, Op. 11 from his stand, took Powell’s hand and paid her observed: “She was bent on being a broad musician and B-1898-4 64027 6/5/16 compliments. Within the week he offered her the a truly educated woman. There were books on her table; DRDLA (1869-1944) & Souvenir Beethoven without reservation. Her collaboration with there were thoughts in her mind of woman’s work in all B-4669-1 64074 7/11/07 Mahler in the Beethoven became one of the “supreme lines of activity; she felt the world’s needs in the larger DRDLA (1869-1944) * Souvenir moments” in her artistic life. sense.” B-4669-2 64074 5/20/09 Despite official Washington’s doubts about When she died, the heartbreak of thousands was BOROWSKI (1872-1956) ( Adoration allowing a “one-woman show” of “highbrow” music to expressed by Musical America: “To chronicle the death C-13733-1 Previously 9/8/13 entertain World War I soldiers, Maud Powell played for of Maud Powell as a shock to music-lovers fails to unpublished the men “as one human being to another” and won their express in anything like its fullness the poignant and SARASATE (1844-1908) hearts simply by being her “natural self, personal sense of loss which proceeds from the ) Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 B-11149-4 64262 6/20/16 unconventional, without any formality”. Although her untimely taking-off of a supreme and unforgettable tours of the training camps seriously impaired her artist. From the circle privileged to know Mme Powell health leading to her early death, she threw her “whole personally, will be absent one whose kindliness, charm 1 2 4 9 0-@ $ & &-( George Falkenstein, piano soul...into her work,” it was reported, and at the close of and great-heartedness, shown especially in her 3 # ^ & ) Arthur Loesser, piano one concert, “the men rose in a body and gave three encouragement of the aspirants to greatness in her own 5 Francis J. Lapitino, harp; George Falkenstein, piano; mighty, deafening cheers”. “I shall never forget that line, cannot be replaced. It seems impossible that this Howard Rattay, violin; Fruncillo, viola; Rosario Bourdon, cello moment,” Maud said, her “greatest thrill” in playing for great and beautiful personality can have gone from us! 6 8 & % Pianist unknown the soldiers. Come what other geniuses or the fiddle may, the loss of 7 Anonymous harpist and orchestra Powell acknowledged she lived a full life, but she Maud Powell is irreparable.” warned young aspirants: “The game is not worth the candle unless your music is a part of your very fibre, Karen A. Shaffer your breath of life. If you love it thoroughly, love it objectively and cannot be happy without it, then go For more information on Maud Powell, contact: ahead. But you wouldn’t have needed me to decide for The Maud Powell Society for Music and Education you, you would have been impelled by something 5333 N. 26th Street, Arlington, VA 22207 USA within, regardless of advice or a thousand warnings.” Phone: 703-532-2055; Fax: 703-532-1816 Powell remained true to her tenth rule on practising: Email: [email protected] “Love your instrument as yourself. But love your art Visit our web site at www.maudpowell.org more than either. Nothing was ever accomplished The Naxos historical label aims to make available the greatest recordings in the history of recorded music, in the best and truest sound that contemporary technology can provide. To achieve this aim, Naxos has engaged a number of respected restorers who have the dedication, skill and experience to produce restorations that have set new standards in the field of historical recordings. 8.110993 6 3 8.110993 110993 bk Powell4 EU 20/09/2004 12:33pm Page 4 Maud Powell (1867-1920) her début in 1885. She openly affirmed her American whole town is crazy about Madam Powell.” The The Complete 1904-1917 Recordings, Vol. 4 birth, temperament and ideals, becoming a strong, warmth of Powell’s humanity leapt from the stage, influential advocate for American musicians, winning her audiences and emboldening young The recordings reveal a remarkable violinist foremost conductor Theodore Thomas and the New composers, artists and cultural institutions. Even with violinists to seek her advice, even to the point of playing with great dash and style and York Philharmonic.