Wolfgang Schneiderhan (1915-2002) was an Austrian classical violinist born in Vienna. After briefly studying with Otakar Sevcik in Prague, he studied with Julius Winkler in Vienna. At age 10 he publicly performed Bach's Chaconne in D minor. The next year he made his debut in Copenhagen playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. He lived in England for some time from 1929, where he appeared in concerts with artists such as Maria Jeritza, Fyodor Chaliapin, Jan Kiepura, and Paul Robeson.

He returned to Vienna to become the first Concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra 1933-37, and later led the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. He nevertheless maintained his career as a soloist in concerts and recordings. He was the soloist in the Viennese premiere of the Elgar Violin Concerto in 1947. He formed a string quartet and after Georg Kulenkampff's death in 1948, he replaced Kulenkampff in a famous piano trio with Edwin Fischer and Enrico Mainardi. He held teaching posts in Salzburg, Vienna and Lucerne. In 1956 he founded the Lucerne Festival Strings together with Rudolf Baumgartner. Schneiderhan was the husband of the soprano Irmgard Seefried. He died in his native Vienna.

The distinguished violinist here makes his debut on BBC Legends with this stereo performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto accompanied by Istvan Kertesz, a great conductor who tragically died early in his career. Schneiderhan recorded the Beethoven Concerto twice in the 1950s and 1960s with Van Kempen and Jochum in the studio. Here BBC Legends catches Schneiderhan live at the Royal Festival Hall playing his own cadenzas which employed an unusual addition of timpani! Schneiderhan always had a wonderfully warm and lyrical violin tone and it is well caught here in this excellent stereo recording.

The Brahms Violin Sonata No.3 with Carl Seeman at the piano was recorded in a famous version by Schneiderhan in the studio but this shows him live during the Edinburgh Festival in 1956.

The stereo recording of Beethoven’s Egmont Overture opened the concert in 1964 and shows Kertesz's dramatic Hungarian conducting at its best given that he recorded very little Beethoven.

Beethoven: Egmont Overture Op. 84, Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz

[Recorded: Royal Festival Hall, London, 13 March 1964]

Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin), Carl Seeman (piano)
[Recorded: Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 5 September 1956]

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