Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...definition, can only mean itself. The parts of Shostakovitch's work which have rung true in the past have been the slow, introspective, semi-ecclesiastical movements like the first movement of his Fifth symphony. Here he is presenting the sombre, God-seeking element of Russian life that he understands. Beethoven was successful with his "Eroica" symphony in memory of Napoleon, because he himself was a big enough man to make the music strong and sincere. Shostakovitch is no Beethoven, and the twenties was not a time for breeding heroic figures, but what the present lacks in faith and breadth...
...convey her unique sensibility by sheer luminosity of language." And Between The Acts managed (not quite successfully, Mr. Daiches feels) to create an image of the whole past and present of England and resolve its mysteries and disparities in a nameless piece of music: "Was it Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, or nobody famous, but merely a traditional tune...
...Germany was cock of the musical roost and knew it. They worked under Liszt in Weimar, they learnt their Wagner opera in Bayrenth under the eye of the "Master," and in the flush post-war days they made Salzburg a summer Mecca for European big-wigs, where Mozart and Beethoven had to fight Schiaparell for the center of the stage. Of all this illustrious company of conductors, Weingartner was perhaps the most talented, and it is to Columbia's everlasting credit that they went to Europe to have him record their heavy classics rather than luring some second-rate American...
Only in Switzerland, in freedom's land, has Flagstad sung. There, fortnight ago, at Zurich, she sang in three operas. One was Beethoven's Fidelio, in which the heroine flourishes her pistol at a tyrant...
This week will be concerto week for the orchestra, as far as the sight reading is concerned, among those to be gone over being Mossil's Piano Concertos in A Major and D Minor, and Beethoven's G. Major Concerto number...