Carl Flesch (violin) - Ave Maria (Schubert-Wilhelmj) (1924)

Carl Flesch plays 'Ave Maria,' with piano by Harry Kaufman, recorded on 1 April 1924.
From Wikipedia: Carl Flesch (Hungarian: Flesch Károly, 9 October 1873 - 14 November 1944) was a violinist and teacher.
Flesch was born in Moson (now part of Mosonmagyaróvár) in Hungary in 1873. He began playing the violin at seven years of age. At 10 he was taken to Vienna to study with Jakob Grün. At 17 he left for Paris, and joined the Paris Conservatoire, studying with Martin Pierre Marsick. He settled in Berlin, and in 1934 in London.
He was known for his solo performances in a very wide range of repertoire (from baroque music to contemporary), gaining fame as a chamber music performer. He also taught in Bucharest (1897-1902), Amsterdam (1903-08), Philadelphia (1924-28) and Berlin (Hochschule fuer Musik, 1929-34).
He published a number of instructional books, including Die Kunst des Violin-Spiels (The Art of Violin Playing, 1923) in which he advocated for the violinist as artist rather than merely virtuoso. Among his pupils were Charles Barkel, Edwin Bélanger, Bronislaw Gimpel, Ivry Gitlis, Szymon Goldberg, Ida Haendel, Josef Hassid, Adolf Leschinski, Alma Moodie, Ginette Neveu, Yfrah Neaman, Ricardo Odnoposoff, Eric Rosenblith, Max Rostal, Henryk Szeryng, Henri Temianka, Roman Totenberg and Josef Wolfsthal, all of whom achieved considerable fame as both performers and pedagogues. He said his favorite pupil was the Australian Alma Moodie, who achieved great fame in the 1920s and 1930s but made no recordings and is little known today. In his memoirs he said, ' ... there was above all Henry [i.e., Henri] Temianka, who did great credit to the [Curtis] Institute: both musically and technically, he possessed a model collection of talents...
He owned the Brancaccio Stradivarius, but had to sell it in 1928 after losing all his money on the New York Stock Exchange.Flesch lived in London during the 1930s, and was later arrested by the Gestapo in the Netherlands, was released, and died in Lucerne, Switzerland, in November 1944.'

[@georgejohnson1498]

So much humain warmth here.
Thank you, George

[@vintagesounds3878]

Exactly!

[@_PROCLUS]

💝💝💝 Thanks a lot ...

[@artsmedia.technology5595]

So beautiful.

[@vintagesounds3878]

Thank you. A great violinist!

[@The-Organised-Pianist]

More of the recordings of Carl Flesch is welcome, thank you, VS! It's nice to hear that, & I'm looking forward to hearing more of his other things that you've got.

[@vintagesounds3878]

I don't have a lot of Flesch, but I'll see if there are more. Btw, I just saw this comment now: I get notifications about 80% of comments made, and the rest seem to fall between the cracks, and this was one of them. I don't know quite what goes on! I've probably missed your note!

[@The-Organised-Pianist]

@@vintagesounds3878 Thank you, I'll be glad to hear more, although still have not heard all the ones you already have. Yes, no worries, I notice that issue too, & sometimes replies typed don't show up. I didn't even get notification when you posted that HN the other day.