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SIBELIUS: SYMPHONY NO. 5 (Columbia). Leonard Bernstein, conducting the New York Philharmonic, is at his best in the expansive, triumphal affirmation of the last movement but, in spite of mighty swells of sound, seems a little somnolent in the andante (where Von Karajan, on Deutsche Grammophon, creates a brooding tension...
Beethoven combines Haydnesque trickery with his own discreet innovations in the First Symphony. However, both humor and novelty escaped notice in Friday's performance. We did discover that the Bach Society can play very well when it wishes, as in the final Allegro, and also rather aimlessly, as in the...
For its major work, the orchestra performed excerpts from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet, combining these with readings from the play. Mr. Manusevitch had obviously rehearsed this wonderful music thoroughly; except for some wretched brass playing in an andante section, all of the movements were well done. The speakers...
The musical highlight of the evening was Ursula Oppens' fine performance of the Beethoven Second Piano Concerto. Miss Oppens' command of the instrument is now familiar to Cambridge audiences; her phrasing last night was beautiful, revealing a through understanding of the music. Only occasionally did exaggerated rubato obscure a cadence...
Rubinstein playing Mozart's Concerto No. 20 and Haydn's Andante and Variations in F Minor (RCA Victor) is only slightly less inspired. He brings a kind of melancholy serenity to Mozart and a flashing excitement to Haydn's study in manic-depressive music; in a single...