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ELGAR: VIOLIN CONCERTO IN B MINOR (Angel). Sir Edward Elgar himself conducted when Yehudi Menuhin, as a prodigy of 16, first recorded this expansive, romantic showpiece. Recording techniques have come a long way since 1932, and Menuhin, at 50, has greater emotional involvement, as well as a marvelously burnished tone, now flashing, now fading in a wide-ranging display...
...CHOPIN: CONCERTO NO. 1 IN E MINOR (Seraphim). Taped from a 1948 broadcast, this is a performance by Dinu Lipatti, the fabled Rumanian pianist who died of Hodgkin's disease at 33. The concerto gives no hint of the sweep and virility Lipatti was capable of, but reveals his lyrical side, warm and magically sustained. The sound is a bit dim, and one seems to be listening by moonlight...
...music major, Levin studied at the Paris Conservatory for six summers, and won the HRO concerto contest in his freshman year...
Luise Vosgerchian, a lecturer in Music at Harvard, was featured in the Stravinsky Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, a short and somewhat loosely constructed concerto of three movements. Miss Vosgerchian gave a bold and clear performances. However, the orchestra did not achieve the necessary dynamic discipline: there was no piano comparable to those in the Wagner. The soloist was consequently a little overtaxed in many passages. In every other respect the orchestra accompanied Miss Vosgerchian flexibly and forcefully...
...Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 1 Yannatos elected to use the entire string section. Most of the weaknesses in the HRO's rendition of the Concerto appear to be the consequences of using such an unwieldy group. The first movement was too heavy and the violins never agreed sufficiently on any phrasing -- or even the precise location in time of the beat -- to bring out the movement's exquisite suspensions and interweaving of parts. Edgar Engleman, the concertmaster, played the solo part in the third movement clearly and sensitively, but the rest of the strings overbalanced...