September round-up
’s 1947 Carnegie Hall performance of Korngold’s Violin Concerto, shortly after he’d given its premiere, has greater urgency than his later studio recording, especially in the luscious slow movement. From the same concert comes Mozart’s ‘Turkish’ Concerto, where his constant use of vibrato now sounds dated, and the finale rushed rather than does it the world of good, and this 1959 performance holds its own with his studio versions. Sound is generally acceptable, but execrable in bootleg audience recordings of Conus’s Concerto, and the Brahms Double with Piatigorsky. ★★★
