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Brahms' Third Symphony will be the major work in most of the performances, Delbanco said. The group's repertoire will also include pieces by Stravinsky, Handel, Bach, Mogart, and Debussy, and Lawrence G. Franko '63 will perform Mosart's Concerto in G Minor...
Less praise can be given the first half of the program which matched Handel's Concerto Grosso, Opus 3, No. 1 with Mozart's Violin Concerto no. 3, K. 216. The soloist for the Mozart piece was Lawrence Franko who regularly serves as the HRO's concertmaster...
...Franko plays his fiddle with the intensity of a young Dr. Miracle and has as well a sinewy tone and considerable technical agility. In fact, his performance of the cadenza of the first movement was quite marvellous and tempted me to revise my firm opinion that most candenzas are evil and should not be played under any circumstances...
...Though Franko has the advantages of a really big tone, considerable forcefulness and technical facility, he lacks two elements that are almost us important as those three: control and musicality. In the first movement, he let slip enough notes to damage considerably the otherwise first-rate impression of his performance and the slow movement was marred by inelegant, abrupt phrasing. Yet, despite these considerable draw-backs, I feel certain that Franko can, and will, do far better when he performs with a little less (but not too much less) gusto. The HRO accompanied their soloist fairly well, but without...
...others: New Orleans' Nahan Franko (off and on from 1899 to 1913), Detroit's Max Bendix...