Word: concerti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...particular, mainly because he wrote so much music that is not suited to present-day mediums of performances, has been the transcriber's prize scapegoat. Johann Sebastian Bach has suffered more at the hands of conductors and who-knows-whats than should happen to even a composer. The Brandenburg Concerti, for example, are written for small groups of string instruments, yet they have been presented, as is also the case with the Corelli Suite for Strings, with entire symphony or chestra string sections. It is true that the music had been transcribed. What that nasty word seems to have consisted...
...plays ambitions programs, but tonight's is head and shoulders over their Cambridge concerts of recent years. The large Radcliffe string contingent is partly responsible as, of course, is "Mal" Holmes' energy and enthusiasm, but the honors of the evening go to two talented Freshmen who tackle mature concert concerti very rarely attempted by amateurs...
Robert Miller '46 will play a cello concerto by Johann Braun, a violinist virtuoso and contemporary of Mozart. The music shares the common failing of virtuoso-composed concerti, a lack of organic give and take between solo instrument and orchestra, but it is very pleasant to listen to. For the most part, Miller plays like a veteran, and when a Freshman undertakes to play what an 18th century virtuoso wrote to display his own technique, it would be foolish to cavil at small lapses of pitch or phrasing...
...rounded off by nothing less than Bach's great orchestral suite in C major, a work with the symphonic proportions of one of its composer's Brandenburg concertos. All in all, the concert has a richness that harks back to the days when German orchestras used to play two concerti and two symphonies in one evening. The Boston Symphony could well take a hint from its rivals across the Charles...