Albert Sammons - Recordings

Recordings

Albert Sammons made his first recording in October 1908; his last was made on 16 April 1946 (Edmund Rubbra's 2nd sonata with Gerald Moore). Other recordings (with dates) include, as leader of the London String Quartet:

• various movements and extracts from string quartets
• Mozart K428, Beethoven op18/2 and Schumann op41/3
• (with Gervase Elwes) "On Wenlock Edge"

As a soloist:

• Elgar: Violin Concerto (abridged October 1916, complete 1929 - see below)
• Elgar: Violin Concerto (recorded by Columbia in London 18 March & 10 April 1929 with New Queen's Hall Orchestra under Sir Henry J. Wood . The performance "possesses a fire, poetry and nobility that have rarely been matched, and certainly not surpassed" - review by Andrew Achenbach in Gramophone Oct. 1998. CD re-issues include Avid Masters AMSC587 ; Pearl GEM0050 ; Naxos Historical 8.110951 )
• Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 (December 1925)
• Beethoven: Violin Concerto (March 1927, unpublished, matrixes destroyed)
• Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante (with Lionel Tertis) (September 1933)
• Delius: Violin Concerto (September 1944)
• Delius: Violin Sonatas (recorded in 1929, 1924, 1944)
• Elgar: Violin Sonata (recorded 2 February 1935)