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An Encyclopedia of the Violin, 1925
21 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 196. See the scan on archive.org.
1the Concerto with his habitual talent, and the pleasure of listening to him was enhanced by the thought that the beauties of his playing were shown forth in a work worthy of them.
3Zdislaw Birnbaum, one of the conductors of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, told me one day it was after he had played the Brahms' Concerto with Ysaÿe—that the Belgian master decided to add the work to his repertoire. He scored an enormous success with it, and I may say with conviction, after having heard all the violinists at present before the public in it, that his interpretation is the one which made the greatest impression upon me. It would be interesting, nevertheless, to know whether Brahms himself would have been content with the slight pause and the brief playing of the last note of the first and second measures of the finale, as Ysaÿe presents them. The original version is as follows: one of two readings
4Zdislaw Birnbaum, one of the conductors of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, told me one day it was after he had played the Brahms' Concerto with Ysaÿe—that the Belgian master decided to add the work to his repertory. He scored an enormous success with it, and I may say with conviction, after having heard all the violinists at present before the public in it, that his interpretation is the one which made the greatest impression upon me. It would be interesting, nevertheless, to know whether Brahms himself would have been content with the slight pause and the brief playing of the last note of the first and second measures of the finale, as Ysaÿe presents them. The original version is as follows: one of two readings
6Finale – Brahms Concerto
8Ysaÿe plays it thus:
10In the first movement, on the other hand, Ysaÿe has introduced an innovation which deserves to be appreciated, since it gives the chords in question meaning and an importance which they lose absolutely when they are drawn out.
12Concerto – Brahms
14I do not claim that Ysaÿe is altogether within his rights in doing this, but I can bear witness to the satisfactory effect which results from this bowing.
16It was Joachim who popularized the Beethoven "Kreutzer Sonata," a work of considerable extent, and impregnated with the atmosphere of genius from beginning to end.
18The music publishers, as a rule, have recourse to the most famous violinists for the revision of the celebrated works of the violin repertory, yet, though the idea is logical enough, the revisions are not always carried out in a manner creditable to the authority making them.
20J. Becker, for instance, the famous head of the Florentine Quartet, made an excellent revision of the Paganini Caprices for the Edition Peters; yet his ideas with regard to the Caprice No. 1 are decidedly open to question.
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