Word: concerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swingster Benny Goodman, who had just finished another genteel Carnegie Hall venture (TIME, Jan. 23), trod last week another classically-minded swingster. At a concert by Manhattan's year-old Bach Circle, Negro Swing-Pianist Teddy Wilson delicately pecked an 18th-Century harpsichord. Playing Bach's Concerto in C Minor for Two Harpsichords and Strings with Harpsichordist Yella Pessl for a partner, Harpsichordist Wilson forgot all about his pedals, stomped out Bach's rhythm with one foot...
Schumann: Concerto in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra (Myra Hess with an orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr; Victor: 8 sides). Finest recording to date of a popular Romantic masterpiece...
Artur Rodzinski (Sot. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony in Michael Leonidovitch Starokadomsky's Concerto for Orchestra, Glinka's Overture to Russian and Ludmilla, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Stravinsky's Firebird suite...
Eugene List (Sun. 3 p. m. CBS) plays Franck's Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra, Anis Fuleihan's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the New York Philhar-monic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting. Also Bach's Suite in D Major, No. 3, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, Wagner's prelude to Die Meistersinger...
Boccherini: Concerto in B Flat Major for Cello and Orchestra (London Symphony, Sir Landon Ronald conducting, with Pablo Casals; Victor: 6 sides). Sixty-one-year-old Casals, playing one of the most venerable of the standard cello concertos, proves that he is still the world's No. 1 cellist; accompaniment, spotty...