Word: concerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hear a little more than usual this year from the Pierian Sodality. The first Cambridge performance will be a joint concert with the Radcliffe Orchestra in early November, which will be followed closely by a Bach and Handel program including the fifth Brandenburg Concerto. This latter concert so early in the season represents a change in policy as two Cambridge performances are planned for this year rather than the customary...
Ernest Bloch: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra (Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Charles Munch conducting, with Joseph Szigeti; Columbia: 8 sides). Not for many years has 59-year-old musical Zionist Bloch wailed so fine a rhapsody. Violinist Szigeti gives his Oriental oratory superb diction...
...Brahms: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting, with Jascha Heifetz; Victor: 9 sides). One of the two or three violin concertos that rank with the greatest of symphonies. Magnificently recorded...
...Handel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D Major (London Philharmonic, Felix Weingartner conducting; Columbia: 4 sides). Last fortnight war forced the 126-year-old London Philharmonic, England's No. 2 orchestra* and one of the world's finest nine or ten, to disband. This well-tooled "first" of Handel's serene, 18th- Century score becomes its first posthumous release...
...Chopin: Concerto No. 2 in F Minor (Alfred Cortot, piano ; orchestra conducted by John Barbirolli; Victor, 8 sides). Best recording to date of a romantic staple, by a prolific waxer of Chopiniana...