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Pianist Robert Freeman has just completed a thesis on the cadenzas to the Mozart Piano Concerti; he must have been discouraged with what he found, as he wrote his own for the performance of the Concerto No. 24. They were short and well suited to the work, which he played magnificently. His touch was sparkling or tender as called for, and his interpretation showed meticulous care. The Orchestra was fine behind him, and, except for a tempo disagreement in the last movement, the rhythms were taut and exciting...
...Liszt of the Piano Concerti and Borodin may as well be heard once in a while though. It is entertaining, if not profound, music; and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has shown that it can do some very entertaining playing. If they continue to play with as much energy and idiomatic sympathy as they did Friday night, no one will complain of a lack of intonation, or an occassional misentry...
...Corelli--Concerti Grossi Opus 6 (complete...
...first great exponent of a form that was to inspire Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel, Corelli was to set the style for years to come for the Concerto Grosso. Yet, like all great composers, Corelli avoided a dogmatic conception of musical form, and within the twelve concerti of Opus 6 there are twelve different variations on the general slow-fast-slow-fast and fast-slow-fast shapes. Quadri elicits a lovely shimmering string tone from the English Baroque Orchestra. (Westminster...
...recent Angel recording of Prokofief's First Violin Concerto stands out as one of the best examples of Oistrakh's technical virtuosity, rich tone, and great musicianship. An early Prokofief work, the concerto finds the composer in a lyrical mood and is one of the few entirely successful concerti of this century. (Angel...