Word: concertos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berkshire Festival (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducts the Boston Symphony in an all-Bach program: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in C Minor, Suite No. 1 in C Major, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra No. 2 in C Major. Soloists: Pianists Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff...
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shura Cherkassy, with the Santa Monica Civic Symphony, Jacques Rachmilovich conducting; Concert Hall Society, 8 sides). In its search for the unplayed and unrecorded, Concert Hall has exhumed an inferior, uninteresting piece of Tchaikovsky. Performance: fair...
Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 (Isaac Stern, with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). A melodic and romantic showpiece by a contemporary of Tchaikovsky, in an impressive performance by young Virtuoso Stern (TIME, June 23)'. Recording: good...
Boston Symphony Esplanade Concert (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). The Frescobaldi-Kindler Toccata, Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, Liszt's Concerto in E-Flat, Delibes' Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler...
Mossman, a balding, limpid-eyed arranger who can bat out an "adaptation" in a day, has done 400 of them. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, he has turned out some Gershwinesque compositions of his own. His New York Concerto is to be played by the Boston "Pops" Orchestra this summer. He has also won a fellowship to study composition and conducting at Serge Koussevitzky's Berkshire Music Center...