Word: andor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bartok: Concerto No. 2 (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, Eugene Bigot conducting; Vox-Polydor, 2 sides, LP). First recording of this great work, which the late Bela Bartok composed in the same period as the brilliant and bold Quartet No. 4. Stubbornly unrelenting in its harmonies and fierce rhythms, it is sterner stuff than the later Concerto No. 3. Hungarian-American Pianist Foldes gives it a powerful performance. Recording: excellent...
Concerto In B Flat, K. 450 (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, Eugene Bigot conducting; Vox, 2 sides, LP). Also one of the greats, performed with equal precision and more life. Recording: good...
...Dances of Marosszék (Andor Foldes, pianist; Vox, 3 sides). Kodály (pronounced Kó-die-ee), who with the late Béla Bartók spent years researching and recording Hungarian folk music, based these picturesque fantasies on Transylvanian dances; Pianist Foldes plays them with the insight and technique of a native Hungarian, which he is. Recording: good...
...Andor Foldes, New York pianist, will present a concert of modern music at the Paine Music Building at 8:30 tonight in the first of two Department-sponsored programs this week. Sunday evening the California String Quartet will perform selections from Schubert, Barati, and Beethoven. Both concerts are open to the public and are free...