Word: concertos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Concerto in D for String Orchestra struck me as a wonderful illustration of the tricks Stravinsky can play with meagre and uninteresting material. Each movement centers around one simple idea. Only the rhythmic and forceful last movement, however, really interested...
...conducts like I do," which means with precision, drama, warmth and love. He had not known about Guido when he arrived in Italy for a visit last spring. He had slipped quietly in on a rehearsal in Milan, where his friend Violinist Nathan Milstein was rehearsing the Brahms Violin Concerto with the La Scala orchestra, and had been so impressed with the work of its Conductor Cantelli that he came back for a second time, then for the concert. Toscanini decided that Guido had been born to conduct...
BartÓk: Concerto for Orchestra (the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 12 sides). The last to be recorded and possibly the finest of the late Béla Bartók's last great works. Fritz Reiner makes the wait worthwhile. Recording: good...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Violin Soloist Nathan Milstein in the Tchaikovsky Concerto in D Major...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Charles Munch conducts Liszt's Concerto No. 2 in A Major. Piano soloist: Robert Casadesus...