Finished an excellent CD (HC 108) consisting of Elizaveta Gilels in nine short pieces (exceptional), Bronislaw Gimpel in the Tchaikovsky violin concerto (excellent) and Aaron Rosand in the Sérénade Mélancolique (very good). All the pieces came from Ronald de Haas, and the Gilels took a long time to de-click (but the result is well worth it). The 79’ 50” CD burned easily and well on the office machine, and plays without problem on my home CD player. The Nero CD editor is excellent in that it allows you to insert a file into an existing audio file (for example, in the Tchaikovsky to run the finale directly into the end of the second movement).
A new instant classic! It’s a CD of golden era violin playing to which I’ll return. Strange that Gimpel – like Ricardo Ondoposoff, Ida Haendel or Aaron Rosand – had comparatively little success