Julian Sitkovetsky (violin) plays Paganini 1st press 1955 mono USSR

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D-1089/90 ORIGINAL. 1955. WARNING! This is the first press from 1955 (D-1089) and not MELODIA reissue!!!
N. Paganini Concerto No.2 for Violin and Orchestra in B minor, Op. 7 JULIAN SITKOVETSKY, violin All-Union Radio Symphonic Orchestra conductor: Mark Paverman recorded 1952
Julian (Yulian) Sitkovetsky (7 November 1925, Kiev - 23 February 1958, Moscow) was a Russian-Ukrainian violin player.
He started violin lesson at age 4, first with father, then with David Bertie at the Central School in Kiev. As a child prodigy, he was chosen to play for Jacques Thibaud at age 8. One year later, he played the Mendelssohn concerto with the Kiev Symphony. In 1939, he enrolled in the Moscow Central Music School, class of Abram Yampolsky, whose students include Leonid Kogan, Igor Besrodny and Rotislav Dubinsky.
In 1945 Julian Sitkovetsky was winner of the All Soviet Union Young Performers Competition of piano, cello and violin (Sviatoslav Richter and Mstislav Rostropovich were the winners in piano and cello). In 1947, he shared First Prize at the Prague Festival with Leonid Kogan and Igor Besrodny.
He married pianist Bella Davidovich in 1950 and their son Dmitry Sitkovetsky (now an eminent violinist and conductor) was born 2 years later.
In 1952, he shared Second prize in the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition with Wanda Wilkomirska (first prize was Igor Oistrakh). In 1955 he won Second Prize at the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition. (Of which Yehudi Menuhin said: "...David Oistrakh and I were on the jury...he should have had First Prize...").
Julian Sitkovetsky never toured much, as he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1956. He died in 1958, at age 32.
Joseph Magil, critic (himself a violinist and violist) of the American Record Guide, said of him: "...David Oistrakh said that, had he lived, Sitkovetsky would have eclipsed him and Kogan….He had a broad, firm, focused tone in all registers; flawless intonation; a rapid, even trill; a swift, perfectly controlled staccato; strong, immaculate harmonics; an even, clear sautillé..."

• Condition of disc: MINT