Word: concertos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m. NBC). Chopin's Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Debussy's Clair de Lune, Grieg's Erotik and Concerto in A Minor (last movement). Guest: Pianist Artur Rubinstein...
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 In B Flat (William Kapell, pianist, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann conducting; Victor, 7 sides). A ragged, unsure playing of the least interesting of Beethoven's concertos. Recording: good...
...Handel: Concerto in B Minor for Viola (William Primrose, viola, with the RCA-Victor Orchestra, Frieder Weissmann conducting; Victor, 5 sides). Handel seems to be making a comeback. This little-known, stately and graceful concerto was arranged by Henri Casadesus (uncle of Pianist Robert) in 1925, and is performed with spirit and fine tone by Primrose. Recording: excellent...
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides). The English orchestra is Bach-size and plays excellently one of the most felicitous of the six Brandenburg concertos...
Berkshire Festival (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducts the Boston Symphony in Vivaldi's D Minor Concerto, Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor. Soloist: Pianist Ella Goldstein...