Word: cello
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inch longer than his Amati, was built by the only U.S.-born member of the 300-year-old European Guild of Violinmakers, a stocky, shy Philadelphian named William Moennig Jr. Moennig also does all the repairing on Efrem Zimbalist's Stradivari violin, Gregor Piatigorsky's Montagnana cello.* Moennig, 40, and his 62-year-old father live and work in a colonial house on Philadelphia's once swank Locust Street, now lined with doctors' offices. The Moennigs sit at benches side by side, poking quietly into ailing old masters with scrapers, knives, gouges, chisels. In a safe...
...Brother Adolf Busch, violinist (citizen of Switzerland), led his Little Symphony through four of Handel's Concerti Grossi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his orchestra: wife Frieda (clarinet), daughter Irene (violin), brother Hermann, onetime first cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic (cello...
...minor works into his few large orchestral pieces. Usually, the content deals with a highly individual and somewhat unemotional experience, as contrasted with the generalized, synthetic experiences of most late Romanticism. Despite evident overwriting for the woodwinds in relleas at Melisande and ineffective use of both violin and 'cello in the Trio opus 120, his themes are well handled...
Passion Is Essential. He began by collecting ancient manuscripts and ancient instruments: a pardessus de viole (high-pitched, five-stringed viol), a viole de gambe (six-stringed forerunner of the cello), a viole d'amour (whose seven steel strings vibrate in "sympathy" as the seven gut strings are played), a basse de viole (big forerunner of the stringed bass). He commissioned Pleyel of Paris to make a two-manual, six-pedal harpsichord...
Shostakovich: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 40 (Gregor Piatigorsky and Valentin Pavlovsky; Columbia; 6 sides). Rambling, facile, second-rate Shostakovich. Performance and recording: good...