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...rather quietly, but then a great argument develops. After a while we calm down again, and then each waits his turn to speak. We all have our say, and finally we are all agreed." Then the quartet put the various parts together and played the whole first movement of Haydn's Quartet, Opus 77 in F Major...
...occasion was a music festival run by Composer Benjamin Britten in Aide-burgh, 85 miles northeast of London. With Composer Britten conducting, Brain performed Haydn's First Concerto for Horn. The piece itself is not one of Haydn's most memorable,* but Brain's music poured out such glistening darts and gentle flutters of sound that the concerto seemed momentous. He conquered the opening and closing fast movements with sparkling virtuosity, and gave the slow middle movement a beautiful, butter-smooth tone. At the end, he took five bows before a roaring audience, then sat down...
...Composer Haydn, overworked and burdened with family troubles, got the notations on the last page of his score all mixed up. Later, he corrected his mistakes, wrote at the bottom of the score: "1m Schlaf geschrieben" (Written in my sleep).** Aubrey, who had outstanding breath control, once bet Violinist Harry Blech that he could sustain a note longer than Blech. Violinist Blech, drawing out one stroke as long as possible, lost to Aubrey, who held one note for 75 seconds...
...heart of the program consisted of six Haydn songs and both sets of Brahms Liebeslieder waltzes. These works were originally intended for vocal quartet, though they are often sung by choruses. The Cambridge Quartet showed, however, that a performance by only four voices has the advantage of a more distinct transmission of the text, a subtler grading of nuances, and the lighter tone quality which keeps such richy-harmonized music form sounding overly-lush...
...Haydn songs were gems. Works of his maturity, they are joyous without being flippant, poignant yet optimistic. The first of the two sets of Brahms waltzes is the more widely known, perhaps because it has fewer solo passages and thus is more often performed by choruses; perhaps also because it maintains a gayer, more spontaneous mood than the second set, composed five years later. It is this second set, however, which left the more profound impression. Its gloomy, anguished texts convey a dramatic unity not present in the other and the musical treatment is appropriately more intense. Although...