Word: concerti
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...corelli concerti were only slightly less unpressive than the Handel, largely because they were eclipsed by the vutnese pertormance ruth Posselt gave to Corelli's A major violin sonata. Her flawless rendition of a breath taking perpetua mobile-type movement as well as her scrupulously clean articulation all evening again marked her as a technician of the highest order and her interpretations were colorful and exciting though never lacking in taste...
...since more Vivaldi scores have been discovered (latest count: 409 instrumental concerti, 136 pieces for chamber ensembles, 54 sacred choral works and 46 operas), the vigorous contrapuntal music of the red-haired priest is enjoying a boom...
...early violin training in the same St. Petersburg prodigy factory that turned out Heifetz and Milstein. But he has no regrets that he did not contiue a career of concert fiddling. "I could Vt stand up there and play again and again the Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Brahms [concerti]. That is like being a painter and being handed a palette with only a few colors. Conducting, you have all the colors you could possibly want...
Antonio Vivaldi, the red-bearded master of counterpoint who was known in his native Venice as "Il prete rosso" (The red priest), composed some 40 operas and 400 concerti grossi. Some of them fascinated his contemporary, Johann Sebastian Bach, so much that Bach made numerous Vivaldi transcriptions. This month, on the heels of the worldwide Bach anniversary celebrations, Italy's Cetra-Soria Co. has put the case for its countryman in two handsome LP albums. The first includes the Piano Concerto in B Minor, rearranged from Bach's transcription, the Concerto Grosso in D Minor...
...unfamiliar relationships and in a dreamlike atmosphere." Another subtitled it "The id in search of itself." One Boston critic found it "crabbed and harshly dissonant"; another "wanting likability" and "without heart." But beaming Conductor Munch thought that "with Bartok, Berg and Bloch, it is one of the most important concerti." Bill Schuman himself, remembering the "practically silence" he once got in Boston, was mighty pleased with 2½ minutes of applause...