Word: concertos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics may grumble about Eileen's dressy monkeyshines-but they also think that her playing is in Myra Hess's league. U.S. audiences have not yet seen Eileen's act, but millions of moviegoers have heard her (the excellent sound tracks of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 helped make The Seventh Veil and Brief Encounter two of the best British movies seen...
Berg died at 50, in 1935. Besides Wozzeck, he left a nearly finished second opera, a brilliant violin concerto and a handful of other pieces. Last week, a Manhattan audience-heard the first U.S. performance in years of his Chamber
...Concerto for Piano, Violin and Thirteen Wind Instruments-and liked...
Bach. Musicraft goes on a Bach bender. Best of the lot: Preludes and Fugues (Carl Weinrich, organist; 6 sides) includes the fine A Minor and A Major. The Concerto in C Major for Two Harpsichords and Strings (Manuel and Williamson Harpsichord Ensemble; 5 sides) comes out muggily; the light-hearted Coffee Cantata (chamber group and soloists; 7 sides) gets a somewhat heavy-footed performance. Recordings: fair...
...work on the program was Bach's Triple Concerto in A Minor. The soloists, Lois Schaefer, flute, Uni Sprengling, violin, and Noel Lee, piano, worked well together, particularly in the second movement. The combination of piano and flute is never a very happy one; separately, however, both were played professionally. With absolute balance between the two instruments, the duo of flute and violin was perfect...