Johanna Martzy

[Dave2002]

Mike, you could try selling it on ebay if its too rough to enjoy. There might be someone out there with a reasonable disc but tatty sleeve.

I was going to suggest digitising it, and trying to improve the sound quality.

I wonder if this is the recording - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FdUgZ9DMbU - here described as Sonatas, rather than Sonatinas.

In the meantime - eBay - http://www.ebay.com/itm/33CX-1359-JO...-/291263626433 £858.30.

[umslopogaas]

Thanks Dave, that's the Schubert disc I mentioned that was estimated at £500 in 2006 (for the first, blue label, £200 for the second, red one). As I suspected, it's got even pricier.

[Barbirollians]

Sounds like Morini her Bruch 1 and Glazunov were coupled with Martzy's Dvorak on a DG issue a few years back .

[LeMartinPecheur]

I think I heard Iona Brown once.

I certainly heard Iona Brown once, in my very first Prom as a very impressionable sixth-former, 17/9/71. She played the Bach double concerto with one Sylvia Rosenberg, an American fiddler who I believe became a noted violin teacher back over the pond. IIRC Rosenberg in a black evening dress, Brown in a white one - poetry in motion

This was the penultimate night, BBCSO/ Colin Davis, with the Stravinsky Requiem Canticles and in the 2nd half, needless to say in those days, Beethoven 9 (with one Kiri Te Kanawa).

Not a bad first Prom I reckon, and they don't do programmes like that any more

Didn't hear the Stravinsky again for 20+ years but went on vividly recalling its sound-world - great to find it as remembered when I eventually got a CD!

[Barbirollians]

Martzy’s recordings now in a Warner box and reacquainted with her Brahms and Mendelssohn I have been just as impressed . Her solo Bach on first acquaintance is outstanding.