Though he never became a household name, many music lovers regard Szigeti, who died in 1973, as the greatest classical violinist in living memory. This new collection captures his early recordings.

If we’re going to judge musicians by the company they keep, then the violinist Joseph Szigeti ranks high. Born in Hungary in 1892 and later a naturalized American, he stands at the center of a ...

Tall, lean, balding Joseph Szigeti (rhymes with spaghetti) is not the silky-slickest violinist in the world (Jascha Heifetz is), nor the velvety-mellowest (Fritz Kreisler is). But for flawless taste ...

In Hungarian, szigeti means "insular." All too often that precisely describes the life of the professional performing musician--no more extensive than the routine of performance. But Joseph Szigeti's ...

Full of immediacy – and star turns – these remastered recordings make for a compelling time capsule The instinct to support musicians alive today makes the pursuit of past superstars a more ...

This is FRESH AIR. The Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti never became a household name. But many music lovers, like our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz, regard him as the greatest classical ...