Word: concertos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...late nineteenth century, so only a limited supply of old music is available. Some masters, like Handel and Mozart, have composed music for a more primitive version of the harp, but Benet explains that repertoire can be a problem because "a lot of composers write their token harp concerto and that...
Benet says that HRO's tour of Europe and the Soviet Union last June was the most "exciting" musical experience she has had. The solo selection she played--a concerto by Argentine composer Ginastera--was broadcast over the BBC radio in London and advertised by poster in the streets of Paris. Although she thought playing in Moscow and Leningrad was depressing, she says the tour "felt sort of like my European debut...
...widow since 1978, Margaret always wears a long dress because "I just feel more elegant, to be blunt about it." She is horrified by the idea of a tip jar ("It would seem like soliciting") and is hurt only "if someone requests a classic, like a Rachmaninoff concerto, something that takes a lot of your soul and concentration, arid then talks throughout. That breaks my heart...
DVORAK: Serenade for Strings, Op. 22; Czech Suite, Op. 39 (Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Armin Jordan, conductor; Erato). Dvořák is best known for his last three symphonies (including the inescapable "New World") and his omnipresent Cello Concerto, but many have long admired his smaller works. The Czech Suite brims with rustic high spirits−it includes a polka, a sousedka, or "neighbors' dance," and a dashing furiant−while the Serenade for Strings is a five-movement study in country-squire elegance. Jordan, a Swiss conductor who came to general attention leading the score...
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Pianist Emanuel Ax, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, James Levine, conductor; RCA). The culmination of Brahms' early style, the D minor concerto began life as a sonata for two pianos; ever the perfectionist, Brahms transformed it into a symphony before finally discovering that what the music really wanted to be was a piano concerto. This rawboned yet ardently romantic piece gets a grand reading from Ax and Levine. But they never get so concerned with profundity that they forget that it is, after all, the work of a 25-year-old still finding his way. Particularly...