Tibor Varga Archive
The Music Treasury for 17 February 2019
This week, The Music Treasury will spotlight the extraordinary career of Hungarian violinist Tibor Varga. His multi-faceted career includes: a concertizing soloist; a strong champion of 20th century works by Bartok, Berg, Webern, Schoenberg; founding of a music school of distinction, with a long list of stellar graduates; formation of orchestral ensembles, festivals, and violin competitions; and an extremely highly regarded conductor world-wide. The show is aired from 19:00 to 21:00 PST from Stanford Universities KZSU, with concurrent streaming on kzsu.stanford.edu. Dr Gary Lemco hosts the evening show. Lorrin Koran has assembled the following notes on Tibor Varga. Tibor Varga, violinist Tibor Varga (1921-2003) was born in Győr, Hungary, in the same region as violinists Joseph Joachim, Leopold Auer, and Carl Flesch, and the famous conductor Hans Richter. Young Varga took his first lessons at the age of two and a half with his father Lajos Varga, an excellent violinist. However, due to an injury during the War, Lajos Varga had to abandon his prospects for being a concert artist and became a violin maker. Coming to the attention of Jenő Hubay, Varga was enrolled at the Budapest Franz Liszt Academy when only ten years old. There he studied with Franz […]
TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Major; BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1 in g minor – Tibor Varga, v./ Festival Orch./ J.M. Auberson – Claves
Volume 3 of the Tibor Varga Collection features this great violinist’s work in two Romantic staples, incisively played and recorded.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
Cedille
