Word: concerti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi (Busch Chamber Players, Adolf Busch conducting; Columbia, 49 sides, 3 volumes). In presenting all of Handel's great monuments of improvisation for the first time in the U.S., Columbia does not match its laudable ambition with sound achievement. The performance is generally good, though uneven; the recording is not all it should...
David Allen, pianist, and Geraldine Viti, alto, will be guest artists at the coming performance. Featured as soloists for the concerti will be Paul De Marais '49, Douglas Allanbrook '48, Maxwell Harvey '44, Robert Ritzenheim 2G, Clarence Taylor '49, and Sarah Cunningham...
...musicians. The big sensation of the past month was the arrival of Claudio Arrau. Billed, by a quote from the Boston Herald, as the "greatest pianist of our time," the Chilean virtuoso almost lived up to the title. Between masterful performance of the G major and E flat Beethoven concerti, he gave an immensely successful recital highlighted by magnificent performances of the Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue and the Brahms Variations on a theme by Pagannini...
...visited by an uneasy feeling that this is where he came in. This tendency toward repetition is fostered by the English musicians, many of them known only locally, who get a fixed program of works and then stick to them: Benno Moisewitch, for example, has been playing the Rachmaninoff concerti almost ad nauseum, and Solomon has long had a fixation on the Emperor Concerte...
...analysis of London musical life is complete without some mention of the B.B.C.'s magnificent "Third Program." With a love for cycles, this program has broadcast B.B.C. sponsored recitals of the Bach cello suites, the Beethoven piano sonatas, the Well-Tempered Clavier suites, and the Mozart violin concerti; and in other fields has given a Shaw festival and innumerable "readings" of badly neglected English literature...