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Bela Bartok published only six string quartets, but as far as many a musician is concerned, they gave the intimate and delicate world of chamber music its rudest shock since Beethoven. With his First Quartet, composed in 1908 when he was 27, Bartok stalked into a field of harsh, hybrid harmonies and fierce rhythms that jolted Budapest listeners upright in their seats. In the Second (1917), Third (1927) and Fourth (1928), he cultivated the field; his harmonies became more astringent, the rhythms more incisive, the textures ever tighter. Listeners found much that was either impenetrable or unpalatable, but they also...
...Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 25 (John Wummer, flute; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Columbia 2 sides LP). An early, infectiously light-hearted work for an unusual assortment of instruments; the players here make it sound good. Recording: excellent...
...cast. Last week thousands of Ravinia fans, sitting on blankets on the dimly floodlit grass, listened to Soprano Lotte Lehmann, whose lieder voice, beamed Knight, "is as near to chamber music as you can get-intimate, romantic." And they heard Chilean Pianist Claudio Arrau playing Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, as a soloist and in ensemble with the Paganini...
...Beethoven: Concerto No. I (Walter Gieseking, pianist, with the Philharmonia Orchestra; Columbia, 2 sides LP). The first new postwar recording to reach the U.S. of one of the piano masters of this generation. Pianist Gieseking has lost none of his power, precision or beauty of tone. Recording: excellent...
After two days' detention, Krips had had enough. Said he: "I have no politics. I am not a Communist; I am not a Nazi. I am for Mozart and Beethoven." Then he flew back to Salzburg without waiting to see whether U.S. Immigration would eventually clear...