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...piano sonatas. Last week three more complete cycles were on the market: all 16 String Quartets, played by the Budapest Quartet for Columbia (12 LPs) and by the Pascal Quartet for Concert Hall (13 LPs), and all ten Violin Sonatas (five LPs), by Joseph Fuchs and Artur Balsam for Decca...
Meet the Masters (Sun. 5:30 p.m., NBC). Guest: Pianist Artur Rubinstein...
...Florence. To the Draper home at 19A Edith Grove came such notables as Painter John Singer Sargent, Writers Norman Douglas, Gertrude Stein and Henry James. The great preoccupation at 19A Edith Grove was music, some of it provided by husband Paul, more of it by Cellist Pablo Casals. Pianist Artur Rubinstein or Singer Feodor Chaliapin. Beginning late in the evening, the music often lasted till morning, when everyone would adjourn to the dining room for breakfast, which sometimes included champagne-and raspberries. The raspberries were especially favored by Impresario Montague Vert Chester, who cared little about what he ate, provided...
...cognoscenti gave their closest attention to the Festival Piano Quartet (a string trio and piano). Its players were famous "lone wolves of music," Pianist Clifford Curzon, Violinist Joseph Szigeti, Violist William Primrose, Cellist Pierre Fournier, and its founder was the late great Pianist Artur Schnabel. Like most serious musicians, the big-name soloists love to play chamber music; for the privilege of playing together, they agreed to accept fees far below their normal standard. Their performances of Brahms, Schubert and Fauré were brilliant. But few listeners outside of Edinburgh will have a chance to hear them: the quartet will...
Standouts in the first release: Master Pianist Artur Schnabel (who died last year) playing two important Mozart concertos, the portentous D Minor, K. 466 and the C Minor, K. 491, with strength and tenderness; Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, making the Vienna Philharmonic perform with the best in Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, Schubert's Unfinished and Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor; Violinist Yehudi Menuhin at his dazzling peak in Paganini's popular, pyrotechnical Concerto...