Word: haydn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAYDN: QUARTETS, OPUS 54 (Westminster). The London-based Allegri String Quartet definitively explores three of the "Tost" quartets, all of which are characterized by the predominant role of the first violin, here brilliantly played by Eli Goren. In the C Major he tirelessly weaves a long garland of arpeggios and trills, then plunges into an adagio of exceptional beauty, tracing a hopeful obbligato above a deep-voiced Hungarian lament...
...HAYDN: DIVERTIMENTI FOR BARYTON, VIOLA AND CELLO (Nonesuch). Because his patron, Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy, liked to play a hollow-necked, stringed instrument called the baryton, Haydn composed at least 125 divertimenti for it, of which five are exhumed by the Salzburger Baryton Trio. To many ears, the recording will be an eloquent argument for keeping the twangy viol locked in museums...
...Cassidy was read mostly for her attacks. Her reviews were often florid, sometimes shockingly inaccurate-she once confused Haydn with Prokofiev-but rarely dull. After seeing Olivia de Havilland in Candida, she wrote: "A pallid, one-dimensional heroine in a kind of comic-strip Shaw. When she enters, she is an interruption, nothing more." She dismissed Conductor Rafael Kubelik: "The symphony was as shapeless as his curious beat, being distorted by arms stiff as driving pistons or limp as boiled spaghetti...
...program, to be conducted by Victor Manusevitch, will include the first local performance of Haydn's Symphony No. 47: Mo-zart's Piano Concerto in B-Flat, K. 456, with Israeli planist David Barillan as soloist: and Mendelssohn's rarely heard Symphony No. 1 in C-Minor...
Missing Heiress. The eight operas, created for the court theater of Haydn's patron, Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy, are mostly free-wheeling romps, light on drama but buoyed by richly melodious scores. Le Pescatrici is a kind of seagoing Cinderella. A handsome prince moors his ship at a small fishing village. He is in search of the long-lost heiress to the Benevento throne, who was spirited away as a baby, after her father's assassination. For reasons of state, the prince wants to marry her. Two fisherwomen immediately claim to be the princess, fall all over themselves seeking...