Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guido Cantelli (Philharmonia Orchestra; Angel). Five months before he was killed in a plane crash in 1956, young Conductor Cantelli, No. 1 protege of the great Toscanini, spent several days recording in London. This posthumous disk presents Cantelli's remarkably fresh reading of a couple of concert cliches: Debussy's L'Aprés-Midi d'un Faune, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite #2. Strained through Cantelli's clear musical consciousness, the lush music flows out simply, movingly, and with none of the sudsy emotional film that so often clouds...
...presence of three of Beethoven's greatest works on one program is recommendation enough for a concert. When they are performed with as much care and sustained concentration as in last night's concert, the result is a very satisfying musical experience...
Nevertheless, a constant feeling of limitation and constraint hampers the orchestra and prevents the musical quality of their playing from attaining to the standard of their technique. Such a defect becomes particularly evident in a concert devoted to works like the "Eroica" Symphony, the G-Major Piano Concerto, and the "Egmont" Overture--works offering possibilities in interpretation and depth that are conspicuously avoided...
...concert as a whole provided many pleasures for the audience, as well as challenges to the Orchestra which were met with spirit and energy. The Orchestra should continue to grow musically as it already has technically; this is their major task at this point...
WHRB has, as an interested party, filed a brief with the FCC against the allocation of channel 289 to WKOX. The Concert Network, which operates rebroad-casting relay activities on channel 290 has obtained a ten day extension in order to file a complaint...