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The difficult medium of two violins, two violas and two 'cellos has tempted few composers. Brahms adopted it twice and contributed the two finest examples of string sextet, of which the first in B-flat (1860) was performed last night. Brahms achieved a perfect balance between Romanticism and Classicism; the...
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...
But in certain technical aspects the performance was disappointing. In contrast to his silken pianissimos, Levy's loud passages often sounded hard, sometimes even to the point of banging. His concern for detail, moreover, occasionally got out of hand; in the sonata's Andante, principal melodic ideas succumbed to the...
Mr. Berman possesses a temperament perfectly attuned to the unique expressive devices of the Romantic period. That his technique was adequate goes without question; and a technique "adequate" to the Chopin Andante Spianate and Grande Polonaise in E-Flat (Op.22) is already one so prodigious and accurate, that, after briefly...
Of Handel's Opus 8 we heard concerto No. 3, with its remarkable Andante jugato. In addition. Mr. Bodky introduced a little known work, "Concerto interpolated into the Oratorio Alexander's Feast." The theme of its first movement bears a close resemblance to the "Hallelujah" theme of the Messiah. Especially...