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Rubinstein playing Mozart's Concerto No. 20 and Haydn's Andante and Variations in F Minor (RCA Victor) is only slightly less inspired. He brings a kind of melancholy serenity to Mozart and a flashing excitement to Haydn's study in manic-depressive music; in a single phrase, his mood shifts from joy to despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 6, 1964 | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...group will perform Haydn's Symphony No. 44, known as the "Mourning Symphony," and will give the first local performance of Mendelssohn's Symphony No.1 (actually his 13th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CITY SYMPHONY WILL PLAY RARELY HEARD NUMBERS | 12/14/1963 | See Source »

...sound, but no one is eager to tinker with them. At its opening, Scharoun's new hall seemed acoustically excellent as Von Karajan filled its angular spaces with squiggles of sound from softest pianissimo to heftiest fortissimo, leading his firstchair men through a delicate movement of a Haydn string quartet and then the full orchestra through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Critics breathed sighs of relief over the splendid sound-function, it seemed, had not been betrayed by revolutionary form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Symphony in the Round | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...played the four movements of a Mozart divertimento the girls buzzed. At the end of each movement they applauded loudly. After playing some Hindemith, the quintet demonstrated their instruments and let some of the girls try them. Then the quintet finished with Ibert and the San Antonio chorale of Haydn...

Author: By Lawrence W. Feinberg, | Title: H-R Woodwind Quintet Makes Lively Concert Tour of Mexico | 9/25/1963 | See Source »

Gregory Biss, who will conduct the BSO for its next two seasons, introduced himself in a solid, accurate performance of Haydn's Symphony No. 86 in D. Granted that the Haydn offers little latitude for a conductor's virtuosity, Biss's version was singularly unexciting. He made every important cue, handled all the details of podium performance with more polish than one expects of a novice students conductor; unfortunately, the sound lacked a matching professionalism. For example, the dynamics of the first and third movements ventured little beyond mezzo forte and forte; throughout, there was hardly any of the nuance...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Bach Society Orchestra | 5/6/1963 | See Source »

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