Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good string quartets are about as rare in the U.S. as quadruplets. Last week in Berkeley, Calif, a new one took the air. The Paganini Quartet (so named because their cello, viola, and two violins are Stradivarii once owned by the great violinist, Niccolo Paganini) played Beethoven and Debussy at a brisker than usual clip, but the music was warm and dramatic. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's critic, Alfred Frankenstein: "Perhaps never before has one heard a string quartet with so rich, mellow and superbly polished a tone...
...Beethoven: Quintet in C Major (Budapest String Quartet with Milton Katims, viola; Columbia, 8 sides). A Mozartean caprice by a young (31) and untroubled Beethoven. Performance: good...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Beethoven's Second Symphony, William Schuman's Symphony for Strings, Peter Mennin's Folk Overture; Robert Shaw conducting...
...past six seasons he has played 380 concerts, and in so doing has not simply repeated old warhorses. His huge repertoire includes all the piano works of Bach, all of Mozart's solo pieces and 21 piano concertos, all of Beethoven's sonatas and five piano concertos, and Schubert's sonatas. Schumann and Debussy are still to go, but not Liszt. Says he: "There is not enough good Liszt . . . too many things...
After Enrico Caruso died, one of his fiddler accompanists decided to bow it alone. But Manhattan critics had few good words for his well-mannered Beethoven and Bach, and his Los Angeles concert fee was not enough to pay the room rent. Says hawk-nosed Xavier Cugat: "I knew that the American people was polite to an artist but crazy for a personality, so I decided to become a personality...