Albert Sammons News
British musician (1886-1957)
- violin
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- composer, music teacher, concertmaster
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2020-02-23 15:50:01
English violin virtuoso Albert Sammons was born on this day in 1886. Largely a self-taught violinist, he is remembered particularly for his association with Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B Minor – a work he championed, recorded twice and performed publicly more than 100 times. Dying in 1957, he premiered a number of new works […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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2019-08-01 13:34:48
Art Dealer Sentenced To 4-12 Years For Multimillion-Dollar Fraud And Larceny
“Between 2010 and 2015, [Timothy] Sammons is said to have pocketed money from art he sold for his clients” — including works by Picasso and Chagall — “and used art that did not belong to him as collateral to obtain personal loans.” – Artnet
2019-05-27 07:58:34
Celebrating the centenary of Elgar's Cello Concerto
[…] premieres of the three chamber works. But interestingly the concerto is linked to the quartet via the cellist Carl Fuchs. It was Fuchs who, in 1900, had requested a quartet for the Brodsky Quartet in which he played, Elgar had agreed but it was not until 1918 that he began work on the quartet and when it was premiered the Brodsky Quartet had retired and the work was played by a quartet led by Albert Sammons (who made the first complete recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto) and WH Reed (who had aided Elgar in the violin writing for the Violin Concerto).It was Fuchs who had also asked Elgar for a cello concerto, again in 1900 and repeating the request in 1906. The work was premiered in October 1919 with Felix Salmond as soloist, though the first performance was disastrous because of lack of rehearsal time and Elgar's work was going […]
2019-02-23 15:50:01
English violin virtuoso Albert Sammons was born on this day in 1886 – 133 years ago. Largely a self-taught violinist, he is remembered particularly for his association with Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B Minor – a work he championed, recorded twice and performed publicly more than 100 times. Dying in 1957, he premiered a […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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