Ruggiero Ricci dies

[pursuivant]

Ricci was very skilled at the left hand pizzicato and he attributed this to being shut in his bedroom for long periods and told to practice and if his father heard no music he would come in to see why. As a result Ricci spent a long time perfecting left hand pizzicati because this could easily be done when lying on the bed.

[Barbirollians]

I found the Ricci/Gamba coupling of the Mendelssohn and Bruch in a charity shop on the Belart reissue for £1 this week .

He was not a violinist whose playing I knew . I was aware of him more as making those records later in his career where he played as many cadenzas as possible .

This old record seems to me , however, to be very good . Very secure playing and not an inconsiderable amount of poetry .

One thing that strikes me on reading the Gramophone review from 1957 is that on release the record cost 39 shillings and 11 pence - today that is £45 or so . How lucky we are that access to great recorded performances is now so much cheaper .

[LeMartinPecheur]

I found the Ricci/Gamba coupling of the Mendelssohn and Bruch in a charity shop on the Belart reissue for £1 this week .

He was not a violinist whose playing I knew . I was aware of him more as making those records later in his career where he played as many cadenzas as possible .

This old record seems to me , however, to be very good . Very secure playing and not an inconsiderable amount of poetry .

One thing that strikes me on reading the Gramophone review from 1957 is that on release the record cost 39 shillings and 11 pence - today that is £45 or so . How lucky we are that access to great recorded performances is now so much cheaper .

My first purchase, as a sub-£1 SPA World of the Great Classics LP in my poverty-stricken teens, of the M/B standard coupling. It served well, and is still on my shelves

[cloughie]

I found the Ricci/Gamba coupling of the Mendelssohn and Bruch in a charity shop on the Belart reissue for £1 this week .

He was not a violinist whose playing I knew . I was aware of him more as making those records later in his career where he played as many cadenzas as possible .

This old record seems to me , however, to be very good . Very secure playing and not an inconsiderable amount of poetry .

One thing that strikes me on reading the Gramophone review from 1957 is that on release the record cost 39 shillings and 11 pence - today that is £45 or so . How lucky we are that access to great recorded performances is now so much cheaper .

See #4, and will add that his Tchaikovsky, Sibelius and Dvorak concertos are also excellent.

[Ferretfancy]

After hearing the Neveu recording back in the days of 78s, Ricci's performance of the Sibelius with the LSO and Fjelstad was the first LP performance I owned. Later on I got the two Prokofiev violin concerto performances with Ansermet, and I'll be listening to No. 2 this morning.
A very fine artist.