Ruggiero Ricci - Sarasate - Danzas Españolas & Pieces by Ruggiero Ricci (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Ruggiero Ricci (* July 24, 1918 in San Bruno, California; † August 6, 2012 in Palm Springs) was an American violinist.

Ricci was born in 1918 to Italian immigrants. He was a child prodigy. As a five-year-old, he received lessons from Louis Persinger. He made his first public appearance in San Francisco at the age of ten. A year later he made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York with the violin concerto in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. In 1932 he undertook his first European tour. Especially his Paganini interpretations quickly made Ricci famous. There was a long break during the Second World War. In 1946 he resumed his concert activity at Carnegie Hall. In 1949 he was one of the first American musicians to come to Germany for a concert tour.

From 1970, Ricci devoted himself increasingly to teaching, first at the University of Indiana, then at the Juilliard School in New York. From 1989 to 2002 he was a visiting professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Later, at a more mature age, he expressed his bitterness about his early Wunderkind performances ("you should put all the Wunderkinder together with their parents on the wall and shoot them, then it would finally be over").

His recordings published by Decca (24 caprices by Niccolò Paganini, Tzigane by Maurice Ravel, the two violin concertos by Sergei Prokofiev conducted by Ernest Ansermet) testify to a strong and rough personality as well as an extraordinary technique that always strives for the authenticity of both sound and sense.

He recorded a very special recording for Decca in 1963: under the title "The Glory of Cremona" (German edition "Violins from Cremona") he made violins by Stradivari, Guarnieri and other great Cremonese masters sound under the same recording conditions as possible.

TRACKLIST

1. Ruggiero Ricci - Danzas Españolas No. 1: Malagueña, Op. 21 No. 1 (Remastered 2023, New York 1961)
2. Ruggiero Ricci - Danzas Españolas No. 2: Habanera, Op. 21 No. 2 (Remastered 2023, New York 1961)
3. Ruggiero Ricci - Danzas Españolas No. 3: Romanza andaluza, Op. 22 No. 1 (Remastered 2023, New York 1961)
4. Ruggiero Ricci - Danzas Españolas No. 4: Jota navarra, Op. 22 No. 2 (Remastered 2023, New York 1961)
5. Ruggiero Ricci - Danzas Españolas No. 5: Playera, op. 23 No. 1 (Remastered 2023, New York 1961)
6. Ruggiero Ricci - Danzas Españolas No. 6: Zapateado, Op. 23 No. 2 (Remastered 2023, New York 1961)
7. Ruggiero Ricci - Danzas Españolas No. 7: Vito, op. 26 No. 1 (Remastered 2023, New York 1961)
8. Ruggiero Ricci - Danzas Españolas No. 8: Habanera, Op. 26 No. 2 (Remastered 2023, New York 1961)
9. Ruggiero Ricci - Serenata Andaluza, Op. 28 (Remastered 2023, New York 1961)
10. Ruggiero Ricci - Introduction et Tarantelle, Op. 43 (Remastered 2023, New York 1961)
11. Ruggiero Ricci - Caprice Basque, Op. 24 (Remastered 2023, New York 1961)



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