THE YOUNG JANOS STARKER (Digital Download)

After surviving the Holocaust in his native Hungary, János Starker began an odysseywhich took him to several European countries before the Hungarian conductor AntalDoráti brought him to America to serve as principal cellist of the Dallas SymphonyOrchestra. Starker has written a vivid account of those years, his adventures, and thepoverty he and his wife suffered in his memoir, The World of Music According toStarker (Indiana University Press, 2004). During his year in France, his last residence before America, Starker gave aperformance on the radio. The owner of a short-lived record label, Pacific, heard thebroadcast and signed Starker to a recording contract, the results of which now appearon the present reissue. The recording of the Zoltán Kodály Sonata, slightly abridgedto fit onto four records, won the following year’s Grand Prix du Disque, which provedto be a worthwhile boost for his career. In his memoir, Starker states that the recording of Manuel de Falla’s Suite populaireespag