Word: concertino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Area-based WOMEN'S PHILHARMONIC, an all-female ensemble conducted by Jo Ann Falletta, is important in our collective consciousness-raising. On an eponymous new CD (Koch Classics), the group unearths a splendid Overture by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (Felix's sister). But the real pleasures are in the Concertino for Harp and Orchestra by Germaine Tailleferre, perhaps the least known of Les Six, and in two pieces by Lili Boulanger, Nadia's sister. Boulanger's D'un Soir Triste, 12 minutes of heartbreaking pathos, ought to be in every man's repertoire...
...cold war trophies, but his baton work has only rarely matched his peerless way with the cello. Consider a new Italian-issued CD (Intaglio) with Gennady Rozhdestvensky and the London ! Symphony, recorded in Carnegie Hall in 1967. Rostropovich sails through Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso and digs into Prokofiev's Concertino, written for the cellist and completed by him after Prokofiev's death in 1953. But the glory of the recording is a magisterial reading of Elgar's Cello Concerto; Rostropovich's probing musical mind goes to the heart of this sorrowful masterpiece and brings balm to its unquiet soul...