Monday 22 July 2002

Disappointed by the first violin concerto by Jenö Hubay (set of two CDs containing the four violin concerti of Hubay kindly supplied by Ronald de Haas). Vilmos Szabadi plays predictably well. But the music is so anodyne. Nothing Hungarian about it; it could just as well be Estonian, or Belgian. So far, nowhere near the standard of Wieniawski, Vieuxtemps, Sarasate or Saint-Saëns. On with concerti 2-4 at a later date.

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