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...necessary to hear frequently music by more modern composers, nevertheless it is always a delight to any music lover to listen to three such acknowledged masterpieces. The three selections of this concert, all of which are familiar, were written by the three greatest masters of classical orchestral forms. Beethoven's Overture Egmont, written as a prelude to Goethe's drama of the same name, is one of the most dramatic and passionate of all the classical overtures. We have so long been accustomed to hear the heavy strokes of the strings in the first part played with a disagreeable rasping...
...concert closed with a remarkably spirited performance of Schubert's great C major symphony, which is the only symphony ever composed, except Schubert's other, in B minor, and some of Schumann's, that can rank with the best of Beethoven's. The magnificent passages for the trombones in the first movement, one of the finest things in all orchestral music; the opening passage on the hourns; the half-comic theme of the wood instruments, all were splendidly played. The andante conmoto, a long slow movement, is a trifle monotonous when played on the piano, but in the orchestra, with...
...programme for the concert this evening is of a purely classical character and yet the styles of the composers represented are sufficiently varied. The first number will be Beethoven's dramatic overture to Egmont. Mr. Carl Faelten will play Schumann's familiar pianoforte concerto in A minor. The concert will close with the grand Schubert Symphony...
...programme for the second concert last night was as follows: Beethoven, Symphony in B flat No. 4; Wagner, Prelude, "Lohengrin;" Saint Saens, Danse Macabre; Saint-Saens, Rondo Capriccioso for violin; Mendelssohn, Wedding March...
There has been much discussion as to whether the symphony should come at the beginning, at the end, or in the middle of the programme. Wherever it had come last evening no one could have failed to enjoy the manner in which Mr. Nikisch gave the fourth symphony of Beethoven. His conceptions are always so excellent that one feels quite justified in taking them as standard, but if he has any fault it is that of being a trifle sentimental. The introductory adagio, as also the adagio third movement, might have seemed to some tastes a little exaggerated, but altogether...