Word: hambro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 4, with Soloist Leonid Hambro...
Beethoven: Bagatelles (Grant Johannesen; Concert Hall). Into these "trifles," Beethoven poured some of his loftiest imaginings and fiercest humors. The Johannesen performance covers 26 numbers. On a Cook LP, Pianist Leonid Hambro plays half a dozen of the late Bagatelles, together with Beethoven's powerful 32 Variations in C Minor. Both performances are first-rate...
Bartok: Contrasts (Robert Mann, violin; Stanley Drucker, clarinet; Leonid Hambro, piano; Bartok). Three short Bartok movements-a fantastic little march, a bluesy interlude and a dazzling dance finale-provide an easy and agreeable introduction to the work of the modern Hungarian master. Performance: excellent...
...opener and had a cast of two. It is, of course, not a play in the broad sense; it a fragment, an episode in the lives of two people, and as such relies on the individual portrayals for its basic appeal. I found both Donald Stewart and Madelon Hambro more than capable of meeting this challenge; they were able to establish full characterizations in a short period of time with apparent case. Although local theatergoers have had the privilege of watching Stewart before, Miss Hambro, an Emerson student, is new here, and in her debut she indicated that he rtalents...
...Sextet for String Quartet, Clarinet, and Piano is a more accessible work than the Piano Quartet because of its greater rhythmic vitality and harmonic familiarity. Masculine, direct, and always moving, it is more in the old Copland tradition. The Juilliard Quartet and pianist Lconid Hambro played excellently, but David Oppenheim wasn't up to the technical demands of the clarinet part. LAWRENCE R. CASLER