Quarterly Critic’s Choice
The best and most interesting new releases of the previous three months are awarded a place on the Quarterly Critic’s Choice. Evaluation criteria are artistic quality, repertoire value, presentation, and sound quality. From 2014 onward, the Long Lists are stored directly with each Quarterly Critic’s Choice.
Historical Recordings
Edith Peinemann – The SWR Studio Recordings 1952-1965
Concerts by Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonín Dvořák, César Franck, Georg Friedrich Händel, Paul Hindemith, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hans Pfitzner, Maurice Ravel, Max Reger, Robert Schumann, Jean Sibelius, Josef Suk und Tomaso Antonio Vitali. Edith Peinemann, Robert Peinemann, Heinrich Baumgartner, Helmuth Barth, Maria Bergmann, Georg Toussaint, Hartmut Oesterle, Sinfonieorchester des Süddeutschen Rundfunks, SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden, Hans Müller-Kray, Hans Rosbaud, Ernest Bour. 5 CDs, SWR Classic SWR19074CD (Naxos)
This commendable Peinemann edition spans an arc from the fifteen-year-old to the twenty-eight-year-old violinist. A considerable part of the repertoire presented has never been released on recordings. In addition, the edition conveys a piece of contemporary history. As with other Rostal students, such as Jenny Abel or Ulf Hoelscher, music came first for Edith Peinemann. Despite all the successes and honors as well as recognition from colleagues such as Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern and David Oistrakh, she was denied a permanent place among stars and starlets – or perhaps spared. It might give pause for thought, that in the 14 volumes »The Way They Play« with around 140 musicians neither Peinemann, Abel or Hoelscher has been included. For the jury: Wolfgang Wendel