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George Barati: Siring Quartet (California Quartet; Contemporary). A fairly brief three-movement work by Hungarian-born Composer Barati, who is also the quartet's cellist. The three movements are consistently thoughtful, occasionally warm, once or twice fiery in a moderately dissonant idiom. Good performance...
Khachaturian: Cello Concerto (Sviatoslav Knushevitsky; the U.S.S.R. State Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gauk; Vanguard). Written in 1946, this score could almost have been composed a half-century earlier. Khachaturian, a cellist himself, lets the solo instrument sing in a flowing, melancholy tenor. Performance: excellent...
...Eckertsen; Vox, 3 LPs). A rich-voiced tribute to Italian Composer Arcangelo Corelli on the 300th anniversary of his birth. The symphony of its day, the concerto grosso contrasted a massed orchestra with a smaller group of solo instruments-here beautifully played by Violinists Daniel Guilet, Edwin Bachmann and Cellist Frank Miller. The music is vigorous and full of spirited contrasts...
...doll named Victor, and told Victor: "Bambini! Tutti bambini! [Children! They're all children!]." But by the end of the rehearsal, most of the orchestra was won over. "She was right every time she pulled us up," said a violinist. "She's a genius," said a cellist...
Wenzinger comes from the Schola Cantorum of Bale. Switzerland which he helped to found several years age. He is at present sole cellist for the Hale Symphony Orchestra and also heads a concert group of faculty members at Sale...