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What the Critics are saying about Gypsy:
Lara St. John certainly possesses the requisite technique, flashing temperament, interpretive panache, not to mention the looks...Stunning real sound quality.
Gramaphone Magazine
"A Masterful Disc."
Edmonton Journal
"Some of the most impulsive playing I have ever heard...by far the finest account of Bartok's Rhapsody 2 that I have heard."
American Record Guide
"A sizzling collection of virtuoso pieces from Canadian violinist Lara St. John, one of the rising stars of the instrument and apparently the last woman in North America who still irons her hair."
NOW Magazine
"Lara St. John's Recordings on the Well-Tempered Productions Label reveal a technically adept, terrifically expressive talent"
The New Yorker
"The playing is lusty...St. John stands out by virtue of her earthy tone and spontaneous feeling for phrasing and rhythm... Waxman's fantasy [is] a true restoration of the savage intensity of the original."
Montreal Gazette
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with Ilan Rechtman, Piano
© 1997 Well-Tempered Productions 67:30
Liner Notes from CD
There has never been a race on earth that has inspired more lore, fables, and dreams than the Gypsies. Dark-skinned nomads dressed in brilliant rainbow hues, travelling in rustic caravans have beckoned the romantic and adventurous at heart for centuries.
Program Notes
Franz Waxman, one of the many wonderful European musicians who came to the U.S. to escape the Nazis, will always be remembered for his scores to classic movies such as Rebecca, The Bride of Frankenstein, and Sunset Boulevard. Like fellow Hollywood composers Korngold, Zemlinsky and Schoenberg, Waxman was a gifted conservatory-trained composer who was held in high esteem by musicians of the day. Waxman wrote his Carmen Fantasie for John Garfield to "finger-sync" to Isaac Stern's playing in the movie Humoresque.
Gypsy Nocturne
Whither, oh God, these paths.
Can't you see they're blind, damned?
Why, oh brother, make them such,
when none leads to where we waited for the dawn,
where we drank the dew;
with the wind we rode horses and woke up the sleeping fields.
Were you to give me half of your cities,
were you to shower gold on my,
were you to buy me the biggest necklace in gold,
I must leave by dawn,
from where we caught the stars with the tambourine,
and sang the songs of the moon.
translation by Aleksandar Madzar
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| TRACKS |
1. "Carmen" Fantasie, Waxman
2. Variations on Dark Eyes (Occhi Chornye), Rechtman
3. Second Rhapsody, Bartok
4. La Gitana, Kreisler
5. Zigeunerweisen, Sarasate
6. Gypsy Nocturne, Rechtman
7. Tzigane, Ravel
8. Czardas Caprice, Rechtman
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