Word: concertos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jubilant over the manuscript that had come to him from Soviet Russia. Said he: "When Prokofiev was the very bad boy of music, I pioneered for him, and he has never forgotten." Twenty-three years ago in Prague it was Szigeti who had started Prokofiev's masterful Violin Concerto No. 1 on its way to fame. Last week in San Francisco, Szigeti bowed and plucked his way through the U.S. première of Prokofiev's new Sonata...
...field, at least, the Russians were still ace-high with Americans last week. Billboard magazine reported that their classical composers led the U.S. hit parade in 1947. And the most popular of them all was Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. Victor listed his Nutcracker Suite, Piano Concerto No. 1 and Violin Concerto among its top best-selling classical albums of the year, and Nutcracker was one of Columbia's big sellers...
Another Russian had the best-selling single classical album. Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 sold well in two versions: one recorded by Rachmaninoff himself 15 years before his death, and one by Artur Rubinstein. All year long, Rachmaninoff's 47-year-old piece had seesawed for first place with Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and finally...
...first year on U.S. records, Soviet Composer Aram Khachaturian (TIME, Nov. 10) got in the top 15 with his flashy Gayane Ballet Suite and his trashy Piano Concerto. Beethoven, usually voted a top favorite in most U.S. bull-session polls, made the list with two piano sonatas, the Moonlight and Pathétique, neither of which rates tops with highbrow critics. Pianist José Iturbi led the single record best-sellers with Debussy's Clair de Lune and a firm version of Chopin's much-mutilated A-Flat Polonaise...
Khachaturian: Violin Concerto (Louis Kaufman, violinist, with the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Rachmilovich conducting; Concert Hall Society, 8 sides). This concerto, a favorite in Soviet Russia, won its composer his first Stalin Prize (1940). It is full of furious fiddling, signifying nothing. Performance: good...