Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some others: Beethoven, Debussy, Borodin, Charpentier, Leoncavallo, Mascagni...
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor .Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: 9 sides; $5). Best recording to date of one of the greatest of post-Beethoven symphonies...
...with the finale, because while it is great intellect, great poetry if you like, it is not great drama in the sense that the first movement is. It tends to stagnate instead of sweeping impetuously ahead. Brahms fails, in this movement, to master the theme and variations form as Beethoven does in the finale of the Eroica. His variations fall apart; they never quite coalesce into dramatic inevitability...
...30Crimson Concert Master: Handel: Organ Concerto and music of Hindemith and Beethoven. 8:45 Louis Roney '42, Tenor. 9:00 "Hot Off the Record." 9:30 Crimson Concert Hall: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde. 10:30 Granville-Barker, Reading. 10:45 George A. Field 2G, Monologues. News...
...music at the Germanic Museum the other night demonstrated this most beautifully, and there will be future concerts of the same type, which I shall try to mention in advance. Meanwhile, the Stradivarius Quartet has scheduled a program at the Germanic Museum for next Wednesday evening, consisting of the Beethoven Quartet Opus 131 in C Sharp minor, and the Schubert "Death and the Maiden" Quartet, two of the very greatest in the literature...