This post is the result of a request on another forum, but I hope some readers here will enjoy it. Here we have a US Decca 10-inch LP containing Beethoven's early and genial Serenade in D Major, with some of the best chamber music players of the mid-century era.
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| Joseph Fuchs |
Joseph and Lillian Fuchs, violin and viola, were siblings who both achieved renown as instrumentalists, and who recorded extensively as soloists and in chamber music.
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| Lillian Fuchs |
At the time this recording was made (June 1950), Leonard Rose was the principal cello of the New York Philharmonic. He would soon embark on a career as soloist, making many records in the process.
They make a fine trio, with a forthright presentation of the Serenade, in excellent sound. This may be the only time Rose recorded with one or the other Fuchs sibling; there is no other instance in Michael Gray's
A Classical Discography database.
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| Leonard Rose |
Rose and Joseph Fuchs were connected by both having served as principals in the Cleveland Orchestra under Artur Rodziński.
The cover art is by Erik
Nitsche, a superb graphic designer who did many covers for Decca. You can find more information on him
here.
