Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D. Guest violinist: Zino Francescatti...
Three record companies-Victor, London and Westminster-went to market on the same sustained D minor last week: Beethoven's hour-long Ninth Symphony...
...sedate, his accents concise. The orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, soloists, and the Vienna Singakademie play and sing accurately, if not thrillingly, and have been recorded with striking clarity (in the scherzo, the kettle drums go off like pistol shots). This set, like Victor's, includes Beethoven's Symphony No. I on the fourth side...
...Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto was both the highlight and the lowlight of the evening. The orchestra was vigorous and forceful; Munch conducted with sweeping brilliance. But pianist Leila Goussean was as miscast playing the Emperor as Pier Angrli would be, playing Moby Dick. It takes a man--a strong man--to make this showy, difficult concerto come to life...
...opening concert, Conductor Munch nodded approvingly over her solo bits in Beethoven's Fourth Symphony. The Boston Globe critic was even more approving; he pronounced her "a true find." Scowled the Herald's Elie: "I find it difficult to accept the notion that any lady flute player could ever succeed Georges Laurent either as an artist or as an object of such veneration among...