Word: allegros
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...tour that had already won raves in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and England. As the French cameras blinked on, Conductor Sirpo led the girls through a solemn, contemplative Corelli air, a Vivaldi piece (with violin solo by tall, blonde Claire Hodgkins), some modern variations by Alexander Tansman and an allegro by Stamitz. They played with fire and discipline that astonished their listeners-and played everything without a sheet of music. When they had done, the TV crew crowded around, and the studio audience burst into applause...
Next morning, readers of the Canberra Times were startled to see Critic Peter Bailey's review of Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 ("The themes are catching and developed with simplicity and beauty . . . from the serious minor cadences of the opening Allegro we move to the lovely waltz-time theme of the Andante . . ."). Bailey carpingly dismissed the Berlioz work ("It seemed an anticlimax to have to listen to an encore by Tchaikovsky...
...first movement of Beethoven's Sonata Op. 2, No. 3 was marked Allegro con brio, which Gulda interpreted in terms of jet-age speed and atomic-age heat, and every fast movement for the next hour and a half had a breathless here-we-go-again quality. It would have been just another dead-eye Fred taking pleasure in his fingerwork. except that Gulda's pianissimo was sweet as a barrel of honey, his legato glided like a gull, and his perfect shading gave each movement a convincing contour...
...three of the rarely performed Sonatas for violin with harpsichord and continue. I admired especially the rhythmic vitality and sharpness of articulation which she brought to these works. Her dramatic vibrato, however, seemed out of place in the stately declamation of the E major Adagio, while the following Allegro sounded overly stiff, and other occasional nuances of mood were only slightly indicated. Yet within her conception, the performance was minutely planned and impeccably executed...
...playing that was to fill the evening. Always accurate in pitch and attacks, carefully phrased, his performance grew from its slightly tense opening to a beautifully integrated reading. In the extravagant skips of the slow movement, Mr. Bruni's tone sounded a bit thin, but he managed the final allegro with style and grace...