GINETTE NEVEU: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS (4 CDS)

The French violinist Ginette Neveu was just 30 when her plane crashed in the Azores in October 1949. She had studied with George Enescu and Carl Flesch, and as The Observer wrote in 1945, “Her playing was superbly vigorous and passionate, and made the impression that its great qualities, such as eloquent phrasing and an apparently limitless range and variety of tone, came from the only true source – an identity with the music and with her instrument.” Her complete recordings, specially remastered from the best sources available, are gathered on these four CDs, with her incandescent Sibelius Concerto taking pride of place.

• 2019 marks the centenary of Ginette Neveu’s birth.

• Newly remastered in 24bit/96kHz from the best sources available by Studio Art & Son, Annecy.

• All recording details are presented in the booklet in a table with date, matrix number, take number (where known), original catalogue number, date, venue and source used for the present box.

• French violinist Ginette Neveu studied with George Enescu and Carl Flesch and rapidly built an international carrier and reputation. She died aged just 30 with her brother Jean Neveu in a plane which tragically crashed in the Azores in October 1949.

• “Her playing was superbly vigorous and passionate, and made the impression that its great qualities, such as eloquent phrasing and an apparently limitless range and variety of tone, came from the only true source – an identity with the music and with her instrument.” The Observer, 1945

• The present box gathers the complete studio recordings done by Ginette Neveu and contains the first CD reissue in the West of Ion Scărlătescu’s Bagatelle

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
Ginette Neveu (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Walter Susskind

I. Allegro moderato

II. Adagio di molto

III. Allegro ma non tanto


Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
Ginette Neveu (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Issay Dobrowen

I. Allegro non troppo
II. Adagio
III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace



Chausson: Poème for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 25
Ginette Neveu (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Issay Dobrowen

Ravel: Tzigane
Ginette Neveu (violin), Jean Neveu (piano)

Ravel: Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera
Ginette Neveu (violin), Jean Neveu (piano)

Scarlatescu: Bagatelle
Ginette Neveu (violin), Jean Neveu (piano)

Falla: Danza Española No. 1
Ginette Neveu (violin), Jean Neveu (piano)

Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post.
Ginette Neveu (violin), Jean Neveu (piano)

Dinicu: Hora Staccato
Ginette Neveu (violin), Jean Neveu (piano)

Suk: Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 17
Ginette Neveu (violin), Jean Neveu (piano)

No. 1, Quasi ballata

No. 2, Appassionato

No. 3, Un poco triste

No. 4, Burleska


Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
Ginette Neveu (violin), Jean Neveu (piano)

I. Allegro vivo

II. Intermède

III. Finale. Très animé


Kreisler: Grave in C Minor in the Style of W.F. Bach
Ginette Neveu (violin), Bruno Seidler-Winkler (piano)

 Excerpt, Suk: Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 17
Ginette Neveu (violin), Bruno Seidler-Winkler (piano)

No. 3, Un poco triste
No. 2, Appassionato



Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post.
Ginette Neveu (violin), Bruno Seidler-Winkler (piano)

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30, Act II: Melody (Dance of the Blessed Spirits)
Ginette Neveu (violin), Bruno Seidler-Winkler (piano)

Paradis: Sicilienne
Ginette Neveu (violin), Bruno Seidler-Winkler (piano)

Kreisler: Variations on a Theme of Corelli (Formerly Attrib. to Tartini)
Ginette Neveu (violin), Gustaf Beck (piano)
Strauss, R: Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op. 18
Ginette Neveu (violin), Gustaf Beck (piano)

I. Allegro, ma non troppo

II. Improvisation. Andante cantabile

III. Finale. Andante - Allegro