Word: concerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head violinist, Mishel Piastro, laid down his fiddle and picked up the baton to conduct the orchestral accompaniment, Conductor Enesco laid down his baton and picked up a fiddle to play the solo. Carnegie Hall's audience and the critical pundits found his fiddling in Bach's Concerto in A Minor for Violin and String Orchestra the last word in intelligent interpretation. Composer Enesco will again play a double part on next week's Philharmonic programs when he conducts his own Rumanian Rhapsody...
...program will feature the music of Mozart. The Maiers will play the Mozart Concerto in E Flat Major for two planes; Guy Maier's solo will be Mozart's Concerto in E Flat Major, K. 482, with cadenzas by Busoni. The orchestra contribution to the program is the Mozart Symphony in G. Minor...
Next Sunday evening Guy Maier, internationally known concert pianist, and his wife Lois, who is also a pianist of some note, will be heard in a concert with the State Symphony Orchestra in Jordan Hall. Mr. Thiede will conduct the orchestra, and the Maiers will present Mozart's Double Concerto in E Flat major...
Schumann's score had actually never been lost at all. The romantic, mentally ailing composer had left the concerto to Violinist Joseph Joachim, whose will consigned it to remain unheard until the 100th anniversary of Schumann's death (TIME, Aug. 23). (Joachim considered the concerto not up to snuff.) Since 1907 the concerto had rested securely in the archives of Berlin's Prussian State Library, where its existence had been well known to scholars and had been noted in dozens of bibliographies and musical dictionaries. Last April, German Music Publisher Wilhelm Strecker sent photostats of the original...
...premiere last week the much-discussed concerto's orchestral score was outlined by a piano accompaniment. Judging by the rather sketchy results, critics were inclined to support Joachim's deprecation of the work. Typical of Schumann were its lyric melody, its cyclical form and the elusive rhythm of its slow movement. Also typical was its occasional awkwardness for the violin (Schumann was a pianist). Very obvious, despite Menuhin's contentions, was the need of editing. Most of the important violin concertos by great masters have either been edited by, or written in collaboration with, some eminent violinist...