Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN: SYMPHONY FOR CELLO AND ORCHESTRA (London). On the heels of 1963's bestselling War Requiem comes another major new work by Britten, recorded by Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and the English Chamber Orchestra under the composer's baton. A 35-minute symphony of gloomy grandeur, it opens with short, skittering, sometimes angry themes. They are like uneasy questions, finally answered in passages that are broadly melodic but nevertheless tentative and unsettling...
BEETHOVEN: SONATAS FOR PIANO AND CELLO (2 LPs; Philips). Beethoven gave both the pianist and cellist a good deal to say in his sonatas, which makes the pairing of these artists a special delight. Sviatoslav Richter, 50, and Mstislav Rostropovich, 37, have been playing chamber music together for years, and each knows when to follow the other's moods and when to talk back...
...Texas in 1935, then returned to Peru, where he designed private homes, started a magazine called El Arquitecto Peruano, and signed on as a government public-housing consultant. "I was interested in politics," he says, "but purely from the professional point of view." In 1945 he ran for the Chamber of Deputies, won a seat from Lima and quickly made a name for himself fighting for low-cost public housing...
...leaders flocking to support him. To counter that, Yorty recently embarked on a whirlwind courtship of Los Angeles' minority groups. In the space of five days, he lunched with the Independent Orthodox Rabbis, had cocktails with leaders of the city's Mexican community, dined with the local Chamber of Commerce in Chinatown, introduced Martin Luther King Jr. at a World Affairs Council luncheon, attended a reception of Hungarian community leaders, and planned to appear at a dinner honoring Cardinal Mclntyre...
...STRING QUARTETS-VOLUME II (3 LPs; Vox). Convinced that Dvorak is the missing link between Brahms and Bartok in the history of chamber music, the Kohon Quartet of New York University is undertaking the first recording of all 15 of his string quartets. More interesting than Volume I. this package includes the three last quartets. Though the Kohon does not have the singing tone of the Janacek ensemble, the players know Dvořák in all his moods and are eloquent spokesmen...