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2. Andante.
work." It took two movements for orchestra to awake fully to the spirit of the music. The Allegro and even the Andante was somewhat listlessly given with several instances of loose and careless playing in the former. The last movements, however, were finely rendered, the orchestra awakening more successfully to...
Liszt's Symphonic Poems were composed differently from the general fashion consisting, as Wagner said "of the subject, the development, and the further development." "Les Preludes," played last night, is the third in number and was written about 1845. Like all of his poems it has a poetic basis - on...
The two movements from Moszowsk's Suite No. 1, - an Andante with eight variations, including a charming moto contino for the first violins, and a Perpetuum Mobile with a complicated fugue, - are what might be called "elastic" music, - the triangle, piccolo and glockenspiel are often introduced. Though Moszowstki is of...
Tschaikowsky's magnificent fifth Symphony brought to a close the finest concert, perhaps, of the season. His compositions bear more or less of the Slavonic temperament - "fiery exaltation on a basis of languid melancholy." He is fond of fantastic and melodic tunes, bold modulations and striking effects; and his fifth...