Word: concertgebouw
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...applause that rolled across the lawns from the great wedge-shaped Music Shed at week's end was still not extravagant, but it had warmed up by several degrees. Conductor Koussevitzky had let Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra give the world premiere of Britten's Spring Symphony last month, even though he had commissioned it. Last week he was prepared to do the symphony justice himself...
Mozart: Symphony No. 40, K. 550 (the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eugen Jochum conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 6 sides). Because the Concertgebouw takes this Mozart masterpiece at a slightly slower pace, it does not have quite the flow or power of Fritz Reiner's recent recording for Columbia (TIME, Jan. 3). Recording: good...
...took a national military defeat and four years of German rule to make the Dutch take grand opera and like it. It was not that Holland had plugged its dikes against all music: it has long had fine Bach societies and a great symphony orchestra, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. But to the restrained Dutch, opera had long seemed worldly and overemotional...
...Dutch Gift. The man who did most to make it "quite all right" is ruddy, energetic Paul Cronheim, 56, prewar manager of the Concertgebouw. One of his first acts when he became director of the opera after the war was to send a cable to San Francisco: "Pierre, you must come and save...
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; English Decca, 10 sides). Fritz Reiner's performance of this great work for Columbia (TIME, Jan. 3) may hold the edge in fire and power; but the fine work of the Concertgebouw, and the spaciousness and detail of Decca's recording, make this...