Word: adagio
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...offered a limber, clean-lined performance of the Bach Chaconne from Partita Number Two. Pepe, 18, whipped through a selection of flamenco songs with remarkable fire and dexterity, thrumming out the music's traditional chords with steel-sure fingers. Later the four came out together to play the adagio and allegro from Telemann's Concerto for Four Violins...
After the guests had taken their chairs, Casals bent over his 250-year-old Goffriller violoncello and, with a characteristic grimace, began to draw out the golden notes of Mendelssohn's Trio in D Minor. Then there were Schumann's fluid Adagio and Allegro and five Concert Pieces by Couperin. As an encore, Casals played his own arrangement-virtually his theme song-of the Catalan melody, Chant of the Birds...
...leap into Prince Siegfried's arms with breathtaking drama in the Black Swan pas de deux of Swan Lake; Zubkovskaya takes a few brief steps and makes the leap with a rippling grace that is equally breathtaking. The Kirov's tempo is more often a stately adagio than a flashy presto, and the spectacular is always shunned for the stylistic. But as the visitors spin through their tour, audiences from Manhattan and Montreal to San Francisco and Los Angeles are likely to continue queueing up at the box office...
...Sunday's program is Bach's Suite for Flute and Figured Bass in C minor, Chopin's Masurkas, Elgar's concerto in E minor (Opus 85), Barber's Overture to "The School for Scandal" (Opus 5), Adagio for Strings, Essay for Orchestra (no. 1, Opus 12), Rangstrom's King Erie's Songs, Divertimento Elegiaco for Strings, Holst's The Perfect Fool, Ballet Suite (Opus...
HARVARD GLEE CLUB AND RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY will swell the ranks of the BSO for the Boston's performance of Gabriel Faure's Requiem. The program also includes Bruckner's To Deum and an Adagio from his string quintet; Charles Munch returns to the podium. Symphony Hall; 2:15 P.M. (Repeat performance SATURDAY...