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Franck: Sonata in A Major (Zino Francescatti, violin; Robert Casadesus, piano; Columbia, 8 sides). One of the most fiery and exciting performances on records of one of Franck's best works. Recording: excellent...
Handel: Concerto in B Minor for Viola (William Primrose, viola, with the RCA-Victor Orchestra, Frieder Weissmann conducting; Victor, 5 sides). Handel seems to be making a comeback. This little-known, stately and graceful concerto was arranged by Henri Casadesus (uncle of Pianist Robert) in 1925, and is performed with spirit and fine tone by Primrose. Recording: excellent...
...music students, had grown out of Walter Damrosch's World War I school for Army bandmasters. Among those who passed through its famed English gardens and composition classes were Aaron Copland, Walter Piston and Dick Rodgers (of Rodgers & Hart). In the early '20s, Composer Francis Casadesus had run the music school. Present director: his famed nephew, Pianist Robert Casadesus, whose wife, Pianist Gaby, is also on the faculty...
...Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians were proud of their small, separate cultures. They flocked to opera and the ballet, and liked to reminisce about the time Robert Casadesus gave a concert in Riga, or Boris Chaliapin sang at the National Opera. Now, there are only a handful of theaters left, most of them Russian, and the people are in no mood to attend them. Related a refugee: "On June 13, 1946, I was in Vilna† and saw, with my own eyes, 3,000 men being transported from the central prison camp to the central station. They were to be shipped...
Debussy: Preludes, Book II (Robert Casadesus, pianist; Columbia, 12 sides); Pour le Piano Suite and Danse (Gaby Casadesus, pianist; Vox, 4 sides); Milhaud: Le Bal Martiniquais (Robert and Gaby Casadesus, duo-pianists; Columbia, 2 sides). Husband & wife take turns working over the iridescent music of a fellow Frenchman. Robert's album is deeper and moodier; Gaby plays more lightly-turned caprices. Their joint record is light, witty...