AIDA STUCKI
MOZART: Violin Concertos & Sonatas

Vol. 1: DHR-7964-9    6CDs set

CD1
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.5 in A major, K.219
Zürich Radio Orchestra, Erich Schmid - conductor. Live performance, 1960

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.4 in D major, K.218
Zürich Radio Orchestra, Wolfgang Fortner - conductor. Live performance 1958

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.3 in G major, K.216
Zürich Radio Orchestra, Erich Schmid - conductor. Live performance, 1960

CD2
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.1 in Bb major, K.207
The Ton-Studio Orchestra, Stuttgart, Gustav Lund - conductor
Recorded: Nov. 1951, Stuttgart. (Source: Period LP SPLP 549. Original producer: Herman Adler)

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.2 in D major, K.211
The Ton-Studio Orchestra, Stuttgart, Gustav Lund - conductor
Recorded: Nov. 1951, Stuttgart. (Source: Period LP SPLP 549. Original producer: Herman Adler)

Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in Eb major K.364
With Hermann Friedrich - Viola
Zürich Radio Orchestra, Pierre Colombo - conductor. Live performance, 1958

CD3
The Sonatas are live performances, the Stadthaus Winterthur, 1977
Christoph Lieske, piano

Sonata in E minor, K.304; Sonata in F major, K.376; Sonata in A major, K.305
Sonata in D major, K.306; Sonata in C major, K.303

CD4

Sonata in Eb major, K.481; Sonata in Bb major, K.454
Sonata in C major, K.296; Sonata in G major, K.301

CD5

Sonata in F major, K.377; Sonata in Bb major, K.378
Sonata in G major, K.379; Sonata in Eb major, K.380

CD6
Sonata in A major, K.526; Sonata in F major, K.547; Sonata in Eb major, K.302

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.7 in D major, K.271a
The Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Victor Desarzens - conductor. Recorded 1952

The daughter of a Swiss entrepreneur and an Italian singer, Aïda Stucki was born in 1921. At the age of 10 she started violin lessons in Switzerland with Ernst Wolters, the concert master of Winterthur/Zürich City Orchestra. Under his guidance, she gave her debut playing Mozart's Violin Concerto K.216, when she was 13.

She attended master classes of Hungarian born violinist Stefi Geyer (1888-1956) at the Zürich Academy of Music and continued her studies with the most important violin pedagogue of that time, Carl Flesch (1873 - 1944) who, upon hearing her for the first time, praised her as "the best violinist in Switzerland."

After winner of the Geneva International Music Competition in 1940, she began performing with leading orchestras and conductors, including Hermann Scherchen, Paul van Kempen, Joseph Keilberth, Pierre Colombo, Victor Desarzens, Eliyahu Inbal, Armin Jordan, and Carlo Zecchi.

She also appeared in Duo-recitals with Clara Haskil ( during 1945-50), Elly Ney, Adrian Aeschbacher, Pina Pozzi, Walter Frey and Christoph Lieske. From 1948 Aïda Stucki taught at the Musikhochschule Winterthur/Zürich (now Zürich University of Art) violin and chamber music.

With her fellow university professor Christoph Lieske (a student of Karl Engel, he later became a professor at the Salzburg Mozarteum), she performed the entire violin sonatas of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, and Debussy from 1970 to 1980.

In 1959 Aïda Stucki, with her husband Giuseppe Piraccini, the concertmaster of the Zürich Radio Orchestra and the Zürich Tonhalle orchestra, founded the internationally known "Piraccini-Stucki" String Quartet.

Her most famous student, Anne-Sophie Mutter, began to study with Aïda at age nine. The star violinist never forgets to mention in many interviews her gratitude to her teacher and discoverer.

In a recent letter to Jacob Harnoy, Anne-Sophie Mutter wrote: ...Aïda Stucki's recognition as an artist is both inevitable and overdue. Her artistry is a timeless inspiration. Her interpretation incorporates bewitching sound, personal instinct coupled with great insight to the wishes of the composer. I admire this great violinist deeply. These recordings are a must for any string player and music lover. Dozens of other leading musicians, who studied with Aïda Stucki, also expressed their gratification.

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AIDA STUCKI

Vol. 2: DHR-8006-8    3CDs set

BRAHMS
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in G major, Op. 78
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A major, Op. 100
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
with Walter Frey - Piano; Live broadcast, Radio Zürich Studio, 1972
String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2
Aïda Stucki & Giuseppe Piraccini - violins; Gerhard Wieser - viola; Walter Häfeli - cello
Live broadcast, Radio Zürich, 1971
SCHUMANN: Fantasie for Violin and Orchestra in C major, Op. 131
with Pro Musica Orchestra, Stuttgart. Rolf Reinhardt, conductor. Recorded November 23, 1953
HAYDN: Concerto for Violin, Harpsichord and Orchestra in F major, Hob.XVIII/6
with Hans Andreae - Harpsichord; Radio Orchestra of Zürich, Erich Schmid, conductor. Live, 1960
Johannes BRAHMS, Robert SCHUMANN & Albert DIETRICH:
F. A. E. Sonata for Violin and Piano
Pina Pozzi - piano; Live broadcast Radio France Musique, Paris 1956
MOZART: Sonata for Violin and Piano in C major, K. 303
BEETHOVEN: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G major, Op. 96
Pina Pozzi - piano; Live broadcast Radio Svizzera Italiana 1962
DVORAK: Terzetto for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 74
Aïda Stucki & Giuseppe Piraccini - violins; Hermann Friedrich - viola
Live broadcast, Radio Zürich, 1969

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