Word: dallapiccola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American than foreign works, this week he is offering a selection of contemporary music from Luxembourg, Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland. Impresario Polikoff also invites the composers being played to come and defend their music in open forum. Among those who have accepted so far this season: Roger Sessions, Luigi Dallapiccola, Carl Ruggles...
...Orchestra, was so full of bewitching sonorities that listeners were just becoming adjusted to it when it ended. A nice antidote to this was Copland's durable old (1925) jazzy Music for the Theater. After the intermission. Hungarian Soprano Magda Laszlo. in her U.S. debut, sang solos in Dallapiccola's song trilogy, An Mathilde; its rich-hued. profoundly melancholy finale had to be repeated after a storm of applause. And Schoenberg's freewheeling arrangement of a Handel concerto grosso, Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (featuring the Juilliard Quartet), was just puzzling enough to make a satisfying...
...Dallapiccola: Canti di Prigionia (St. Cecilia Academy Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Igor Markevich; Angel). Italy's most important composer, Luigi Dallapiccola, admires both Schoenberg's twelve-tone system and Palestrina's pure, polished polyphony, and these long, suppliant "songs of prison" combine some interesting aspects of both...
...Dallapiccola: Tartiniana (Columbia). A charming view of Tartini's 18th century violin compositions as seen through Dallapiccola's 20th century eyes...
...Dallapiccola: Tartiniana (Ruth Posselt, violin; Columbia Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia). Italy's most famed modernist in a mellow mood. Two of the four movements start with themes by 18th century Violinist-Composer Tartini, then gradually, smoothly warm up to entrancing modernity. All of the movements seem to weave Tartini's melodies serenely for a while, then get involved in the implications of their own patterns; at other times the old tunes appear in a kind of bas-relief against a background of alien dissonance. A fascinating composition...