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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston Symphony Orchestra (Tues. 8:3O p.m., ABC). Beethoven's Eroica symphony. Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Wagner's Faust Overture. Conductor: Bruno Walter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Recitals are again more a matter of quantity than quality: Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach cycles are being given concurrently this month by the young musicians. The big sensation of the past month was the arrival of Claudio Arrau. Billed, by a quote from the Boston Herald, as the "greatest pianist of our time," the Chilean virtuoso almost lived up to the title. Between masterful performance of the G major and E flat Beethoven concerti, he gave an immensely successful recital highlighted by magnificent performances of the Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue and the Brahms Variations on a theme by Pagannini...

Author: By Otto A. Friedrich, | Title: The Music Box | 2/15/1947 | See Source »

...most unfortunate side of the London picture is probably the most sterile programming imagination in Europe. Fed on nothing but repeated doses of Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Tehaikovsky, and Mozart, the English concert goer begins after a month or so to be visited by an uneasy feeling that this is where he came in. This tendency toward repetition is fostered by the English musicians, many of them known only locally, who get a fixed program of works and then stick to them: Benno Moisewitch, for example, has been playing the Rachmaninoff concerti almost ad nauseum, and Solomon has long...

Author: By Otto A. Friedrich, | Title: The Music Box | 2/15/1947 | See Source »

...analysis of London musical life is complete without some mention of the B.B.C.'s magnificent "Third Program." With a love for cycles, this program has broadcast B.B.C. sponsored recitals of the Bach cello suites, the Beethoven piano sonatas, the Well-Tempered Clavier suites, and the Mozart violin concerti; and in other fields has given a Shaw festival and innumerable "readings" of badly neglected English literature...

Author: By Otto A. Friedrich, | Title: The Music Box | 2/15/1947 | See Source »

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