Szymon Goldberg: Milestones of a Violin Legend (10 CDs)

Szymon Goldberg, born in Poland in 1909, has left unmistakable traces in the history of music, making a name for himself internationally as an exquisite Mozart player andchamber musician. Goldberg was endowed with the insignia of a child prodigy and found sponsors early on who devoted themselves to the artistic development of the future genius - including Wanda Landowska, Carl Flesch and Wilhelm Furtwängler, who hired the 20-year-old Goldberg as concertmaster for his Berlin Philharmonic and took credit for having “probably the best concertmaster in Europe”. Despite energetic insistence, Furtwängler did not succeed in protecting his young Jewish protégé from the professional ban imposed by the National Socialists. In 1934 Goldberg, who had no illusions about the horrors to come, left the country head over heels and went to the USA. Recordings of high artistic quality were made in cooperation with congenial piano partners like Lili Kraus and Arthur Balsam. Goldberg also formed a top-cla