Word: bartok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chance to hear the Juillard Quartet should be considered seriously. Their program (Ives, Carter, Bartok) is the way concert-programming ought to be: with a definite audience in mind, avoiding attempts to please everyone at once...
SANDERS THEATER. Juilliard String Quartet. Quartets by Ives, Carter, and Bartok...
Following the "suite" was Bartok's last completed work, the Third Piano Concerto, in which soloist Debbie Sobol provided the most satisfying music-making of the evening. Miss Sobol's lyrical, carefully-shaded conception of the concerto was brought forth with remarkable technical assurance and relaxed poise. Generally, the orchestra did not approach the buoyant subtlety and control of her playing in the first and last movements, again because of rhythmic and textural insensitivity. Moshell's monochromatic manner of conducting is at least partially responsible for such problems: a beat which does little to emphasize legato and staccato, piano...
...Bartok works which concluded the program provided perhaps the most satisfying listening of the evening, simply because one never hears Bartok performed so sympathetically. Dissonance, so much a matter of course in the composer's style, was treated as such, rather than as a means of jolting the listener. In these pieces (Improvisations, op. 20, and Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm, from Book VI of the Mikrokosmos), as always, the clarity of texture and poetry of phrasing characteristic of Mr. Berman's playing brought forth all aspects of the music in a deliberate, well-balanced interpretation; and so precise...
Daniel Stepner and Jay Gottlieb, violinist and pianist, playing Schubert's Fantasia, Bartok's Unaccompanied Violin, and Chausson's Poeme. Currier SCR. 8:30, April 21. Free...