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Thursday night's open rehearsal was the first of five to be given this year chiefly for the benefit of students who can't attend the real thing. The next one, on December 13, will be conducted by Ernest Ansermet, substituting for the ailing Charles Munch. In many ways, a rehearsal is even more enjoyable than a concert. The informality contrasts favorably with the machine-like view one usually gets of an orchestra. Watching them chatting among themselves and pencil-marking their scores, one can appreciate them as human beings. Unfortunately, the audience could not hear most of Monteux...
...later and more familiar works, RCA Victor offers a superbly warm performance of No. 93 (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Guido Cantelli conducting; 6 sides). Recording, on 45 r.p.m.: excellent. London FFRR'S release of No. 101, "The Clock" (L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet conducting; 2 sides, LP), is less warm, more straightforward. Recording: good...
Bartok: Quartet No. 3 (New Music String Quartet; Bartok Recording Studios, 1 side, LP). Swiss Conductor Ernest Ansermet once described the late great Bela Bartok as "one who searches groaningly, even though he may appear to be smiling." Composed in 1927, his Quartet No. 3 is crammed with rhythmic and harmonic search, and a few groans and smiles too. With this excellent recording, made by the composer's son Peter, 25, all six Bartok quartets are now on wax. Performance: good...
Beautiful Promise. But, wrote Ansermet, Stravinsky and Twelve-Toner Arnold Schönberg had added two bands of color to the spectrum of western music, "ultraviolet and infra-red." Among other hopefuls, "Alban Berg [TIME, May 31] has written pages of overwhelming beauty. The hour of Berg will come . . . Bartok is a symbol of our times. He is one of those who search groaningly, even though he may appear to be smiling. His last works are the most beautiful promise that modern music has offered...
...atonality, both conductors were in fundamental, if coincidental, agreement. Wrote Ansermet: "Tonal music is an expression of clear sentiments, Schönbergi-an music seems to cultivate the obscure...