Josef Suk R.I.P

[Guest]

A great performer and a lovely man. A worthy descendant of the prolific Czech composer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/8624101/Josef-Suk.html

VH

[Roehre]

A great performer and a lovely man. A worthy descendant of the prolific Czech composer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/8624101/Josef-Suk.html

VH

A great loss indeed, and not only a Suk-, but a Dvorak-descendant as well

[amateur51]

This is very sad news and I am very glad that he has left so many wonderful examples of his magnificent art for us and future generations to enjoy.

If I had to choose one concerto CD it would be his Proms performances on BBC Legends of the Beethoven & Dvorak concertos

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/BBC%2BLegends/BBCL42572

He also recorded Brahms' Piano trios with Janos Starker and Julius Katchen in wonderful performances.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Decca/4480922

[gurnemanz]

I've just enjoyed the first Mendelssohn Trio - surprisingly the only CD with Josef Suk in my collection.

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product/CD/SU36022.htm

I'm sure I had some of his Supraphon LPs years ago.

[verismissimo]

One of the greatest. I'll get out and play his wonderful Berg concerto recording In Memoriam. Maybe others later!

[amateur51]

One of the greatest. I'll get out and play his wonderful Berg concerto recording In Memoriam. Maybe others later!

Thanks for the tip, verismissimo - I must get it & listen

[BBMmk2]

Such a great muscian and notmafraid of his ancestral routes! RIP

[amateur51]

An example of the great man at work:

Dvorak violin concerto with Neumann/Czech PO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo3o4oxaUV0&feature=related

[amateur51]

Thanks again for the Berg violin concerto tip, verismissimo

Here it is on youtube ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWHRdbG3pX8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PPwXsOEezw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rna8fyULtqA&feature=related

A wonderful partnership with Karel Ancerl & Czech PO

[Alf-Prufrock]

Suk's Brahms violin sonatas with Julius Katchen are worth the money too. R.I.P/

I often wondered whatever happened to his father, who could not (it seems) compete with his son, father and grandfather.

[EdgeleyRob]

Not much to add really.An all time great .RIP.

[Freddie Campbell]

...Sad news indeed. I have long been a Suk fan-met him a few times & actually ment to Study with him in Prague,but this was
impractical in the end.I have just about every Recording he made & particularly value his Unaccompanied Bach,Beethoven & Berg Concertos...

[Barbirollians]

Thanks for the tip, verismissimo - I must get it & listen

Saints above what a stupendous performance - immensely romantic but by far the best I have ever heard . It makes you love rather than admire the piece.

The Mendelssohn and Bruch couplings are pretty special too.

[Bryn]

Thanks for the tip, verismissimo - I must get it & listen

It's only a few months since we were celebrating the new Supraphon release of the boxed set of his Beethoven Sonatas with Panenka. Such a great musician. I too will be spinning that Berg recording, still my favourite, Faust notwithstanding.

[Keraulophone]

re #10:

Long my favourite version of these three great sonatas... http://www.amazon.com/Brahms-Violin-.../dp/B000059ZIC

R.I.P.