Word: haydn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ORCHESTRAL: A triumphant beginning to the Boston Symphony Prokofiev series is the big, wartime Fifth Symphony, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf. Leonard Bernstein fired up the New York Philharmonic for Liszt's Faust Symphony and cooled them down for a lapidary performance of Haydn's Symphonies 82 and 83 (Columbia). Haydn (in Symphonies 95 and 101) also got the benefit of Fritz Reiner's accumulated wisdom and inborn precision in his last recording, made two months before his death (RCA Victor...
...HAYDN: QUARTETS OPUS 3, NO. 5; OPUS 33, NO. 2; OPUS 76, NO. 2 (London). A sampling from three periods of Haydn's music, mileposts in the early history of the string quartet. The earliest, nicknamed "The Serenade," sounds like party music played by strolling strings. "The Joke" is more serious; its nickname comes from Haydn's wager that the ladies would talk before the music ended. The last of the three shows Haydn at his richest and most complex. The members of the Janácek Quartet from Czechoslovakia play the works from memory, but they play...
...Reporter. Pierre was a piano prodigy, at six played Haydn in a recital at the Canadian National Exposition in Toronto. But he finally concluded that the piano was not his forte, decided to forgo a musical career, although he still plays a passable Bach...
Treasure Unearthed. He had to wait 16 years, but last week an interested audience gladly paid to hear Starker, one of the world's finest cello players, make his belated Carnegie Hall debut. For the occasion Starker performed the U.S. première of Haydn's Concerto in C for Violoncello and Orchestra, a work lost for nearly two centuries until it was unearthed in a castle in Czechoslovakia three years...
...HAYDN: MASS IN TIME OF WAR (Deutsche Grammophon). This is the first of Haydn's six last Masses, those great, sturdy monuments of faith that look backward musically to Handel and forward to Beethoven. Rafael Kubelik and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform the superb work so deliberately that it seems staid at first but builds slowly to an impressive climax in the Agnus Dei, with its insistent rolls of drums that give the work its popular title, the Paukenmesse or Drum Mass...