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...Vaughan Williams' bubbling Symphony No. 8 and made the music chortle, brag, sneer and guffaw with Falstaffian humor in a sheer triumph of spirit. At the end, the audience gave him as warm an ovation as has been heard in Carnegie this year. After 15 years Sir John Barbirolli was back on the podium he had first mounted in 1936 as a bouncy, black-tressed newcomer...
...Paris concert hall was tense. Behind the scenes, 38 nervous young men and women from a score of countries polished their bulky cellos, flexed their hands, and spat on calloused fingers. In the balcony sat 14 distinguished cellists, including France's Pierre Fournier, Britain's Sir John Barbirolli, Russia's Mstislav Rostropovich. It was the Concours International Pablo Casals 1957, organized to honor the great cellist, and it proved to be a surprisingly thrilling East-West match...
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 8 (Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli; Mercury). A sweeping, full-throated song, written with far more springtime power and heat than might be expected from an 83-year-old, but in a harmonic idiom that suits his age. Barbirolli's orchestra matches Williams' enthusiasm note for note, dyne...
Listener's Digest is subtitled "The exciting new short cut to great music." The cut is not only short but unkind: the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (in a ragged performance by the Hallé Orchestra under John Barbirolli) runs a mere three minutes-minus the development section, where, in effect, the composer explains what his music is about. Overall cut: from 32 minutes to 14. Other emasculated masterpieces: Franck's D Minor Symphony (38 to 14), Brahms's First Symphony (38 to 15), Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto...
Shooting Presto. Barbirolli made his own choice of composers, spent weeks rehearsing their music, autocratically vetoed suggestions put forward by the Cheltenham council, flew into tantrums, grumbled about terms and generally made himself indispensable. To justify himself, he pointed to the record. "Look at the young men I've introduced here," he said. "Peter Racine Fricker. John Gardner. Alan Rawsthorne. They're all names now. And I introduced them at the Cheltenham Festival. It is the most important music festival in the country . . . Why, do you know what they asked me to play at Edinburgh this year? Scheherazade...