Wanda Wiłkomirska († 01.05.2018) & Karol Szymanowski, Violin Concerto No.1 Op. 35 /p.1/.

★ KAROL SZYMANOWSKI - • KAROL SZYMANOWSKI .- Violin Concerto No. 1 (ex) .
★ WANDA WIŁKOMIRSKA † 01.05.2018 -- • WANDA WIŁKOMIRSKA! and Warsaw Philharmonia Orchestra..Conductor Witold Rowicki -1961.
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Wanda Wiłkomirska († 01. 05. 2018) , the most famous of all Polish violinists, comes from a notable musical family. Indeed, the first steps in her learning violin were taken under the guidance of her father. Her violin studies resulted in her graduating in 1947 from the Łódź Academy of Music, where she studied under Irena Dubiska. This was followed by her graduation from the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in Budapest in 1950, where she studied under Ede Zathureczki. She later perfected her violin technique in Paris under the guidance of Henryk Szeryng, and in Warsaw under Tadeusz Wroński, who assisted her in preparing for the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań.
Wanda Wiłkomirksa went on to win prizes at competitions in Geneva (1946), Budapest (1949), Leipzig (1950) and Poznań (1952). Her success in these competitions, along with her splendid performances with the Warsaw Philharmonic brought her much acclaim in Poland and abroad. A significant moment in her career proved to be her "musical union" with Witold Rowicki - the prominent conductor and co-founder of Poland's National Philharmonic. In 1955, Wanda Wiłkomirska performed at the inauguration of the rebuilt Philharmonic concert hall on Warsaw's Jasna Street. That same year, she was awarded the status of that orchestra's soloist and gave many performances around the world with such conductors as W. Rowicki, S. Wisłocki and A. Wit. A turning point in her career was the 1961 performance, with the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by W. Rowicki, of Karol Szymanowski's Concerto No. 1 at New York's famous Carnegie Hall. Her talent came to the notice of the most famous American impresario of that time - Sol Hurok (manager of such stars as I. Stern and D. Oistrakh), who introduced her to the enthusiastic U.S. and Canadian markets. From that moment on, she would make regular annual visits to America to perform recitals and symphonic concerts. In 1968, she began regularly recording for the Connoisseur Society record company in New York, for which she made 12 albums. Two of these won awards, namely "Best of the Year" (1972) and the Grand Prix du Disque (1974). She has also recorded with the biggest phonographic companies, such as: Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Philips and Naxos. Naturally, she has also recorded for Polskie Nagrania.
In 1969, Australia became another position on the map of her artistic conquests, when she toured that country for the first time, giving 37 performances. These interpretations won her great acclaim and she received further recital and concert proposals from Australian symphonic orchestras. In 1973, she was the first violinist to perform a solo recital in the newly built Sydney Opera House.
She has given recitals and performed symphonic concerts in probably all the most famous halls, including: Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Gewandhaus, the Royal Festival Hall, the Piotr Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow and the Berlin Philharmonic Hall. She has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Berliner Philharmoniker, with such celebrated conductors as: Paul Klecki, Pierre Boulez, Paul Hindemith, Leonard Bernstein, Otto Klemperer, Zubin Mehta, Sir John Barbirolli, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Kurt Masur and Erich Leinsdorf. Indeed, it was her performance of Benjamin Britten's Violin Concerto, conducted by Leinsdorf, which accompanied the 1976 inauguration of the famous Barbican Hall in London. In 1986, following the overthrow of apartheid, she accepted an invitation to perform in South Africa, this resulting in new contracts for upcoming seasons. From that point in time, her name has been known on all continents, from Sydney to San Francisco, from Capetown to Reykjavik.
Wanda Wiłkomirska has also worked with Polish symphonic orchestras, performing at the inauguration concerts of new philharmonic halls in Rzeszów, Szczecin and Wałbrzych. She is not one to shun performances in small towns, a fact that has won her a host of warm admirers among music lovers.
Wanda Wiłkomirska performs on a violin crafted by Pietro Guarneri in 1734 in Venice.

[@CzarMuzyki]

WANDA WIŁKOMIRSKA † 01. 05. 2018 -- kzbin.info/aero/PL7Ya_z08dGHmPvJGYovaKzYIOvMHAFrav&disable_polymer=true -- R. I. P.

[@malgorzatapetrycka]

NAJLEPSZA!!!❤👏👏👏

[@hannastaszak1684]

KAROL SZYMANOWSKI ❤️❤️❤️ Genialna muzyka, wspaniałe wykonanie.

[@hannastaszak1684]

Szczęście, to możliwość słuchania genialnych dzieł muzycznych wielkiego, polskiego kompozytora Karola Szymanowskiego ❤

[@margueritesopinski6796]

Brava Wanda! Inspiring playing. RIP.

[@AnnaKarkowskaVirtuoso]

Thank you for sharing this incredible beauty !!! Dziekuje z calego serca!

[@Scarbo09]

Wilkomirska is my favorite living violinist, and this recording is one of the reasons why.

[@solonka123]

An extraordinary performance. Wilkomirska plays fabulously!!!

[@frankcisyarmi]

extraordinary performance great Wanda Wiłkomirska!!!!!

[@petergranville-edmunds3676]

Too wonderful to fully describe., words just fail at this time

[@maliz34]

Thanks for sharing. I was her student in Hochschule für Musik Heidelberg-Mannheim in Germany for two years. The write up gave a deeper insight on her musicianship and wide range of her performances. She indeed touched lives through her music. A real top level artist. How I wished to have seen her performing live back in those days. Thanks for social media I got to see her past concerts. So thankful to have her as my teacher. R. I. P. Frau Professorin Wanda Wilkomirska!

[@gergsar]

Wanda Wilkomirka is an incredible violinist....thanks so much for posting!

[@thomasmrf.brunner]

Incredible beautiful recording of this outstanding Violin Concerto - thank you very much !

[@enterocinese]

This is an excellent recording from both the soloist and the conductor (don"t forget him). It sounds great too. Please upload part 2 thks

[@peterlunow]

this is the recording I heard for the first time in the midseventies ,the first time I heard this concerto . Now I hear it again after all these years and yes: it still is hauntingly beautiful!!

[@abdul7591]

No kidding. I first made my acquaintance of this recording in the 1970s as well, when I was in college. Wilkomirska's is still the standard by which I judge other performances of the Szymanowski concerto.

[@ItamarRashkovsky]

i like, i like

[@obduliorincon6112]

..beautiful dark sad eyes..matching the music ! !

[@MrGer2295]

Remembering KAROL SZYMANOWSKI (1882-1937 on his birthday !

[@inesblit]

Seams to be a definition of Szymanowski's Violin Concerto.

[@gergsar]

Wanda Wilkomirka is an incredible violinist....where's pt.2? Thanks so much for posting!

[@yuehchopin]

Oh, sehr intensiv!

[@kainbirs]

i stała się Jasność.Amen

[@SaitFaik54]

Is Wanda Wilkomirka one of the maidens of Wilko?