Zino Francescatti was a French violinist with an Italian-sounding name, who was big in the late mono/early stereo era, both as a recording artist and in concert circles. If the name of Francescatti has not survived as well as some of his contemporaries -- for example Jascha Heifetz or Yehudi Menuhin, the latter being a generation younger, but began competing with Francescatti as a child prodigy -- it is partly because Francescatti's commercial recordings have had very little exposure in the digital era. Francescatti's ...
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Zino Francescatti was a French violinist with an Italian-sounding name, who was big in the late mono/early stereo era, both as a recording artist and in concert circles. If the name of Francescatti has not survived as well as some of his contemporaries -- for example Jascha Heifetz or Yehudi Menuhin, the latter being a generation younger, but began competing with Francescatti as a child prodigy -- it is partly because Francescatti's commercial recordings have had very little exposure in the digital era. Francescatti's commercial recordings belong to Sony Classical, which has never been big on reissuing its monophonically made classical recordings -- call it, if you will, "Zino's Paradox." However, this has not stopped European companies from reissuing them, usually without proper credit or identification of provenance. This Music and Arts set, Zino Francescatti: Violin Concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, is a totally different animal in that it is not made up of studio recordings, but...
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