ARTHUR GRUMIAUX TO MY FRIENDS PHILIPS ANALOGPHONIC LP-43107

The good Arthur Grumiaux was in a very sentimental mood when he chose the twenty-nine works for this pair of discs. The prevailing pace is andante, the prevailing mood one of heavy sweetness - the stuff to send an audience out not with pulses pounding. There are, of course, nice moments. A Mozart Rondo is bright, articulate, and well planned: Granados' Danza espanola No. 5 ("Andaluza") is warm and compelling, with its minor major cadence as magical as ever: Kreisler's "Schön Rosmarin" is beguiling.—High Fidelity

"Encore! Bravo! Da capo! - Arthur Grumiaux Plays His Best-Loved Encores Vol.2" Works by Fritz Kreisler, Sir Edward Elgar, Isaac Albéniz, Franz Schubert, Antonín Dvořák, Niccolò Paganini, Charles Gounod, a.o. - Arthur Grimiaux (v), István Hajdu (p)