Word: concertos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston Symphony (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, Hindemith's Mathis der Maler. Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky...
...last symphony concert of the season in the Dutch resort city of Scheveningen. Suddenly, during a Bach violin concerto, Soloist Sam Swaap started scrubbing his fiddle discordantly. Then he stopped cold for a dozen bars, holding his fiddle like a broken toy. After embarrassing moments, Swaap got back on the track. After him on the program came French Pianist Janine Weill. She got midway through the last movement of Saint-Saëns's Piano Concerto No. 4, then her fingers became riveted to the keys. The orchestra struggled on by itself for 40 bars before Madame Weill fell...
Works by three Germanic masters, Bach, Hindemith, and Beethoven were the meaty substance of this first program. Bach's First Brandenburg Concerto, as rendered by Dr. Koussevitzky, lacks the lightness and intimacy preferred by these familiar with the old Buseh recording; however the lush Boston reading found as much life and meaning in this music as its first performers must have in 1721. The horn and oboe soles, particularly in the irrepressible third minuet trio, were superlative...
...Bach: Concerto In D Minor for Two Violins (Jascha Heifetz with the RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra, Franz Waxman conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Both violin parts are played by Heifetz, who recorded each part separately and then matched them. Stunting with Bach is asking for trouble, but Heifetz carries it off pretty well. Recording: excellent...
Mozart: Piano Concerto in B Flat (K.450) (Kathleen Long, pianist, with the National Symphony Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 6 sides). This version of one of Mozart's greatest concertos merely glimmers where it should sparkle. Recording: excellent...