ELMAN, MISCHA (1891 - 1967)

Mischa Elman (1891-1967) had his early training in Odessa with Alexander Fidelman, a pupil of Auer and of Brodsky, before himself becoming a pupil of Auer in St Petersburg. He appeared in Berlin in 1904 and in London the following year, giving his first New York concert in 1908, and settling in America in 1911. He had a highly successful career as a soloist, a chamber music player and in the recording studio, and was said to have acquired his characteristically warm tone in part, at least, from the influence, at second hand, of his grandfather, a Jewish folk-musician. He recorded the Violin Concerto by Wienawski, Auer’s predecessor in St Petersburg, in Philadelphia in 1950, with an orchestra conducted by another Auer pupil, Alexander Hilsberg.

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BEETHOVEN, L.: Violin Sonata Nos. 5, "Spring" and 9, "Kreutzer" (Elman) (1955)	9.80461
BRUCH, M.: Violin Concerto No. 1 / WIENIAWSKI, H.: Violin Concerto No. 2 (Elman) (1956)	9.80396
CARUSO, Enrico: Complete Recordings, Vol. 7 (1912-1913)	8.110724
CARUSO, Enrico: Complete Recordings, Vol. 9 (1914-1916)	8.110750
GREAT COMBINATIONS (1953)	9.80189
GREAT VIOLINISTS	8.110980-81
GREATS of the GRAMOPHONE, Vol. 1	8.120569
TCHAIKOVSKY / WIENIAWSKI: Violin Concertos (Elman) (1929, 1950)	8.110912
TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Violin Concerto (Elman, London Philharmonic, Boult) (1954)	9.80640