GRUMIAUX - To My Friends (Sealed) (LP)

To My Friends - Arthur Grumiaux Play His Best-Loved Encores. Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Enrique Granados, Fritz Kreisler, Antonio Vivaldi, Anton?n Dvor??k, a.o. - Arthur Grimiaux (v), Istv?n Hajdu (p). 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 "Sch?n Rosmarin" is beguiling.—High Fidelity