Word: boccherini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JACQUELINE DU PRÉ: HAYDN'S CELLO CONCERTO IN C and BOCCHERINI'S CELLO CONCERTO IN B FLAT (Angel). Israeli Daniel Barenboim has earned a reputation as a first-rank pianist, and his British wife Jacqueline du Pre has won an equally enthusiastic following for her accomplishments with the cello. Neither is shy about displaying virtuosity, and this disk demonstrates that Mr. Barenboim is master of his house even on the concert stage, for he conducts his wife and the English Chamber Orchestra into the crystal world of Haydn and Boccherini with great aplomb. Jacqueline is so absorbed...
...BOCCHERINI: SYMPHONY IN C MINOR (London). The great composers of the classical age, Mozart and Haydn, have overshadowed their contemporary, Luigi Boccherini, who also wrote prolificacy-more than 400 instrumental works. "Boccherini is Haydn's wife," jested a violinist of the day, referring to the Italian's gentle, melting melodies, including gilded minuets that are whispering echoes of an elegant past. There is just such a dance in this bland but pretty symphony played by the Orchestra Rossini di Napoli, conducted by Franco Caracciolo...
...tribute. Piatigorsky followed, carrying his Stradivarius cello with a giant's jauntiness, as though he were about to put it under his chin instead of between his knees. It scarcely mattered that the pieces they chose to play for the first concert proved something of a disappointment. The Boccherini sonata seemed stiff, a duo by Martinu stilted. But in the Brahms C Major Trio, the famed Heifetz creamy tone and the Piatigorsky sonority were a sensuous delight. In the second of the three-concert series, they chose a program of Beethoven, Kodaly and Dvorak, and with the outstanding assistance...
...concert to herself earlier in the festival in which she played a duet with a mechanized robot equipped with twirling foam-rubber breasts, is told at 36 minutes to "play and sing for four minutes." She can perform anything she likes, so one night she played a Boccherini piece, another night Bach. At 15 minutes, during "a long pause," she is free to do whatever she wants and made dark plans to give Poet Ginsberg a much needed shave, "if he does not resist too much...