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Mozart's "Symphony in D Major" and Beethoven's "Concerto No. 1 in C Major" were the featured selections of a highly satisfactory concert presented by the combined Harvard Radcliffe Wellesley Symphony Orchestra in Sanders Theatre last Sunday evening. Bruce Simonds, Dean of the School of Music of Yale University, was soloist in the Beethoven concerto...
That Mr. Simonds not only is a remarkably able pianist but also possesses a thorough knowledge of Beethoven's Concerto was evidenced by the facility and technique of his performance. His cadenza in the First Movement presented the theme powerfully, yet simply, and throughout the second (Largo) and third (Rondo Allegro) movements his interpretation continued to be spirited and full. It was regrettable that the attack of the orchestra seemed slightly rusty in the first movement, but this fault decreased as the work progressed...
Simons will be soloist in the performance of Beethoven's First Piano Concerto. In addition, George Brown will conduct the combined orchestras in Mozart's Symphony Number 35 (the Haffner Symphony) and in works of Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin...
...Beethoven: Quartet, Op. 132 (Buda pest Quartet; Columbia; 10 sides). This version of great late-Beethoven has the edge on the previous Busch Quartet (Victor) recording in polish. Performance excellent, recording good...
Pierre Monteux is also one of the very few Frenchmen whose favorite composer is the arch-Germanic Johannes Brahms. San Franciscans have marveled at the Rhine wine savor of his Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann, as well as the elegance of his Debussy and Ravel. Pierre Monteux's ranging tastes and orchestral mastery have come to him during a lifetime in which he has conducted no less than 63 symphony orchestras in Europe...