Word: cellos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beethoven: Sonata No. 3, Op. 69 (Pierre Fournier, cello; Artur Schnabel, piano; Victor, 6 sides). French Cellist Fournier made a hit two seasons ago at the Edinburgh Festival with Pianist Schnabel, Violinist Joseph Szigeti, and Violist William Primrose (TIME, Sept. 22, 1947). Here, in his U.S. record debut with Schnabel (and Beethoven), he succeeds again. Recording: excellent...
...result of all the Page One squabble: attendance at concerts had picked up-perhaps, mused one symphonygoer, because other ticket holders thought they might get to see somebody wrap a cello around somebody else's neck...
Brahms: Quartet No. 3, Op. 60 (Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Frank Miller, cello; Mercury, 7 sides). Mercury could hardly have gotten together a finer ensemble (Schneider is a Budapest Quartet alumnus; Katims and Miller are both first chair men in Toscanini's NBC Symphony) to bring this grimly powerful Brahms quartet back on the record shelves. Performance and recording : excellent...
...joke. Yes, it was true: he had told the interpreter that he knew about fishing-fishing was his hobby. But he had also told the interpreter that in his native Poland he was known as the grandnephew of famed Novelist Henryk (Quo Vadis?) Sienkiewicz, as a cello virtuoso and as an occasional conductor of the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra...
Sienkiewicz's interviewers at Santiago's stadium listened, smiled, went on talking about the good jobs in Chile's southern fish canneries. Sienkiewicz got worried, pleaded with camp authorities for a chance to show his skill with a cello. At last they called in a group of musicians. The little man played for them. By nightfall, Cellist Sienkiewicz was the talk of Santiago...