The Complete Recordings of Maud Powell, Vol. 1

Title Tracks for The Complete Recordings of Maud Powell, Vol. 1

1. Partita No.1 in b, BWV 1002: Tempo Di Borea
2. Minuetto
3. Orphee Et Eurydice: Melodie
4. Vn Con No.7 in G, Op.76: Allegro Maestoso
5. Vn Con No.7 in G, Op.76: Andante Tranquillo
6. Vn Con No.7 in G, Op.76: Allegro Moderato
7. Kol Nidrei
8. Zigeunerweisen
9. Mignon: Gavotte
10. Spanish Dance, Op.26 No.8
11. Salut D'amour
12. Four American Folk Songs: My Old Kentucky Home/Old Black Joe/Shine On/Kingdom Comin'
13. Caprice On Dixie
14. Silver Threads Among The Gold
15. Petite Valse
16. Farfalla, Op.40, No.3 (Will-O'-The-Wisp)
17. Polonaise, Op.38
18. Guitarrero
19. Souvenir
20. Molly On The Shore
21. The Bee
22. Minute Waltz
23. Thais: Meditation

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At last! Maud Powell's musicianship available again, January 2, 2002

Bradley P. Lehman (Dayton, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Recordings of Maud Powell, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

This is a reissue of "The Art of Maud Powell, a 'Victor Immortal' - complete recordings 1904-1917" prepared by the Maud Powell Foundation (Arlington, VA) in 1989. The guiding spirit behind that foundation, and project director of this collection, is Powell's biographer Karen A. Shaffer.These three CDs were available only from the Maud Powell Foundation. I managed to get volume 3 several years ago after hearing all three discs from a library, but volume 2 has not been available. So, I've waited for volumes 1 and 2 hoping they'd come back "someday." Well, here they are, and Naxos has also released volume 3 according to their January 2 2002 newsletter.Maud Powell (1867-1920) was in 1904 the first solo instrumentalist to record for Victor's new celebrity artist series on their Red Seal label. Their promotional materials told us to "Listen to Maud Powell's violin...if you want to find out how much can be got out of a fiddle, go--listen to--Maud...Read more