Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beethoven: Sonata in F Minor "Ap-passionata" (Artur Rubinstein; Victor, $ sides) and Concerto No. 3 in C Minor (Artur Rubinstein and the NBC Symphony, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Chopinist Rubinstein takes on Beethoven. Concerto No. 3, recorded at a radio broadcast, has some technical limitations but few musical ones. Performance of both: excellent...
...perennial Christmas best sellers. Last season it was played twelve times by U.S. symphony orchestras; it was also dance-timed by Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians (TIME, Nov. 12). In U.S. phonograph-record sales - principally because of Peter and the Wolf-Prokofiev rates above Mozart, though far below Beethoven and Tchaikovsky...
...Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 ("Choral") in D Minor (Philadelphia Orches tra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, with Stella Roman, Enid Szantho, Frederick Jagel, Nicola Moscona and the Westminster Choir, John Finley Williamson conducting; Columbia, 16 sides). The first U.S. recording in German of this colossus for orchestra and voice is many shades below Columbia's superlative prewar waxing by Felix Weingartner and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and State Opera Chorus. Performance: fair...
Once that has been played, however, there must be a certain semblance of balance. A given proportion of the remaining time should be devoted to works of classical importance. That which is left must be divided among the Romantics and the impressionists--carefully. The Romantic school stretches from middle Beethoven and Berlioz through Sibelius, and perhaps (in a false beard) through Hindemith and Schoenberg...
Therefore, extreme care must be used in choosing programs from the Romantic school. This year, we have heard Berlioz and romantic Beethoven, then Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, and Sibelius. This week we shall hear Tchaikovsky. The choice here appears quite unfortunate. Perhaps this will be remedied later. But not even the ghost of an impressionist has entered Symphony Hall, despite the recent productivity of Milhaud...