Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concerts in his bedroom of music that Toscanini had either recorded or broadcast. He would sit on his bed as the music played, eyes blazing as if he were on the podium, conducting energetically and singing the music to himself. When he came to a particularly affecting passage in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or his Missa Solemnis, Toscanini sometimes wept openly. Tears rolling down his cheeks, he would sit back and murmur to himself. "I cannot believe it. I cannot imagine such a man [as Beethoven...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, with Soprano Eleanor Steber...
...same criticism holds for her playing of Beethoven's F major Romance. Although not representing the composer at his greatest, this piece can still be extremely effective in its contrasts between gentle flowing mclodics and sudden spurts of energy. A little more relaxation by Miss Colish, a little more give and take between the moods, would have been more appropriate...
...uniformity which is the raison d'etre of the string quartet. Of course it may be answered that a woodwind quintet can aim at quite a different and equally valid ideal. Unfortunately, composers have not yet shown what this might be. The two classical works on the program (by Beethoven and Haydn) were both transcriptions, and of the contemporary quintets played, only the Hindemith has serious merit, though three short pieces by Ibert offer facile pleasure by their eclectic and clever ideas. The fact that a work is a transcription need not condemn it, however; and the two performed...
...being issued at ten times the rate they were on 78-r.p.m. disks. The new records also seem to deserve credit for broadening tastes. Where Chopin's Polonaise and the Boston Pops recording of Jalousie were bestsellers among "classical" records in 1947, last year's favorites were Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony (conducted by Arturo Toscanini) and a much more esoteric score, Berlioz' symphonic scenes, Harold in Italy. Last week Billboard's music sleuths found the public foraging still farther afield. Among the ten best-selling concert LPs: Cherubini's Symphony in D (Victor...