At age 15, violinist Ginette Neveu achieved worldwide celebrity status when she won one of the most famous music contests of all time – the 1935 Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, whose second- and third-place winners were two other legends of the instrument, David Oistrakh and Henri Temianka. Over the next fourteen years – until her untimely death in a 1949 plane crash – Neveu was one of the most in-demand violinists of her era. Her studio discography is small but undeniably and consistently brilliant, and includes a recording of Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto that the composer himself treasured.
Parnassus records is pleased to present the most important recordings of Neveu, including not only the Sibelius Concerto but Josef Suk’s Four Pieces for Violin and virtuoso music for violin and piano by Ravel, Dinicu and others, accompanied by her brother Jean and Bruno Seidler-Winkler.
Impeccably remastered by Paul Arden-Taylor, this collection is essential listening for violin fans.
Ginette Neveu Plays Sibelius Concerto & Violin Treasures
