Word: concertos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston Symphony began its concert in Sanders Theater Tuesday night with C. P. E. Bach's Concerto in D Major for Strings. This is one of the many Thoroughbass pieces that Koussevitsky has had orchestrated, and it is never a surprise to find one starting a concert. But you might well ask why it was put on this program; it was no preparation for Irving Fine's new Toccata Concentrate which followed...
...applauded Violinist Goldberg. When he walked quickly onstage to take a stiff stance before the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the audience saw a small, smooth-haired and handsome man in his late 30s. Holding his fiddle high, he gave his listeners a powerful performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto, with clear round tones and steel-fingered doublestops, that brought the audience to its feet when it was over...
...camp, Goldberg assembled 14 violinists and a flutist, a piano with 19 keys missing, and a harmonium. Salvaging and pasting together scraps of toilet paper and margins from book leaves, and writing with only a tip of lead from a pencil, Goldberg scored from memory the entire Beethoven Violin Concerto for his little orchestra. He gave the woodwind and bass parts to the harmonium, and gave the piano "all the noise of an orchestra...
...English Composer William Walton did a lot in Olivier's Henry V to lift the standards of film scores; in Hamlet he raises a craft to an art. The score never intrudes, but accompanies the spoken word like an orchestra accompanying the piano or violin in a concerto. Recording: good...
...Mozart: Concerto No. 4, K. 218 (Jascha Heifetz, violinist, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Heifetz is too often sleek where cleanliness, clarity and simplicity are called for. Recording: good...