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Yesterday marked the anniversary of the birth of influential Hungarian-born violinist and pedagogue Carl Flesch (). As a teacher, Flesch produced some of the twentieth century&#;s most notable violinists, including Henryk Szeryng, Ginette Neveu, Josef Hassid, Ivry Gitlis, and Ida Haendel. His book, Art of Violin Playing and his Scale System are still used today. Boris Schwartz, a student of Flesch and the author of Great Masters of the Violin, writes: His dominant quality seemed &#;
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Eight Great Recordings
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In a generation defined by standards set by Jascha Heifetz, where does Henryk Szeryng’s technique and style fit in?
By Sasha Margolis
Henryk Szeryng, born a century ago this year, belonged to an almost impossibly gifted generation of violinists that included such luminaries as Yehudi Menuhin (–99), Isaac Stern (–), Arthur Grumiaux (–86), and Leonid Kogan (–82), along with Ruggiero Ricci (–), Ginette Neveu (–49), Ivry Gitlis (b. ), and Josef Hassid (–50). With the exception of Menuhin, all were born in the years just following Jascha Heifetz’ US debut—these artists came of age in a violinistic landscape dramatically altered by Heifetz’ asteroid-like impact.
Before Heifetz (–87), the greatest stars of the violin would charm and seduce their audiences, show off when the music demanded it, and in the most exalted repertoire, plumb the deepest of musical depths. After Heifetz, audiences expected not only charm and sensuality and profundity, but also perfect accuracy and intonation, along with the ability to be great in every kind of repertoire. Szeryng himself put it best: “With his advent, such things as faulty intonation, slovenly playing, erratic rhythms, and erroneous textual readings were rendered archaic and no longer tolerated by the critics and the public.”
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