My favorite violin interpretation ever, not because he is the best violonist no more than the more perfect virtuoso... Not at all listen to Milstein and Heifetz for this...
Like said once the great poet Rene Char : "imperfection is the peak" ....
Disembodied static "perfection" is always UNDER embodied living "imperfection" like this Szeriyng interpretation here...
No other interpretation vehicle a so deep spiritual charge, it is no more simply violin playing here... Only a miracle... You can verify with another more sound perfected version by Szeryng in 1967 for Deutsch after this 1955 unique version... He is no more a match for himself anymore... I sold this 1967 version after one listen.... Miracle happen once...
This album is my violin love forever....We can sense the heart beat of spiritual respiration of a soul inhaling the cosmos...Is it music? Embodied music of the sphere here , too intense to be only beautiful....Uniting body and world....Bach must have played like that or would have wanted be able to play like that....Bach for me is IN this work like the Fournier version of the cello opus for the same reason on par with one of the Starker version ( they are five beware)....
Ok the sound is not the best possible it is not so well balanced but so what? i discarded all other well recorded version, BECAUSE our RESPIRATION change listening this and i discovered listening this that we listen with our body then with our LUNG/heart not only with our ears....This is a YOGA lesson in the listening and playing art... Respiration as a cosmic fact...
Schopenhauer was right, music place us in the noumenal dimension of the world where there is no more a listening and a playing body, no mere an internal subjectivity in front of an objective world... Only one cosmic respiration like the AUM of the Indian cosmologist...